U.N. nuclear agency has been more than two years since Syria permissible the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the Dair Alzour desert site, where secret nuclear work may have taken place before it was bombed to debris by Israel in 2007. U.S. intelligence reports said it was a nascent North Korean intended nuclear reactor intended to produce bomb fuel. Syria, like its ally Iran, denies having an atomic weapons programme. Washington has optional the Vienna based U.N. agency could invoke its "special inspection" mechanism to give it the rights to look anywhere in Syria at short notice.
Damascus would doubtless refuse such a demand and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano would then have to choose between raise the bet further or, in effect, accept his office can do little more to make an unwilling member state cooperate. Mark Hibbs of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace referred in a report to inspection and other means used by the agency to create sure countries do not acquire atom bombs. "Syria is winning its battle with the IAEA over safeguards compliance," he said. "Fearing a confrontation, Amano is not willing to demand from Damascus a special inspection to probe allegations raised by Western state and Israel that Syria built a clandestine reactor."
In Uranium traces hottest report on Syria in September, the IAEA said the country's refusal to allow U.N. inspectors access to the area was endangering potential proof in the investigation. Earlier this year, it give some weight to suspicions of illicit atomic motion by saying uranium traces found in a visit by inspectors in 2008 piercing to nuclear related activity. In a debate in the IAEA's 35-nation board final month, U.S. ambassador Glyn Davies said Washington would back the agency's use of all tools at its removal to advance the investigation. Syrian envoy Mohammed Badi Khattab said the IAEA did not require to go back to Dair Alzour because it already had ample proof it was a non-nuclear military site.
Damascus would doubtless refuse such a demand and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano would then have to choose between raise the bet further or, in effect, accept his office can do little more to make an unwilling member state cooperate. Mark Hibbs of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace referred in a report to inspection and other means used by the agency to create sure countries do not acquire atom bombs. "Syria is winning its battle with the IAEA over safeguards compliance," he said. "Fearing a confrontation, Amano is not willing to demand from Damascus a special inspection to probe allegations raised by Western state and Israel that Syria built a clandestine reactor."
In Uranium traces hottest report on Syria in September, the IAEA said the country's refusal to allow U.N. inspectors access to the area was endangering potential proof in the investigation. Earlier this year, it give some weight to suspicions of illicit atomic motion by saying uranium traces found in a visit by inspectors in 2008 piercing to nuclear related activity. In a debate in the IAEA's 35-nation board final month, U.S. ambassador Glyn Davies said Washington would back the agency's use of all tools at its removal to advance the investigation. Syrian envoy Mohammed Badi Khattab said the IAEA did not require to go back to Dair Alzour because it already had ample proof it was a non-nuclear military site.
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