AUSTRIA: The U.N. nuclear watchdog's decision to report Syria to the Security Council for covert atomic work is necessary and appropriate, the IAEA representative for the U.S.says

Record ID: 279311

  • Title: AUSTRIA: The U.N. nuclear watchdog's decision to report Syria to the Security Council for covert atomic work is necessary and appropriate, the IAEA representative for the U.S.says
  • Date: 10th June 2011
  • Summary: VIENNA, AUSTRIA (JUNE 9, 2011) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) U.S. AMBASSADOR AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO IAEA, GLYN DAVIES, ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. AMBASSADOR AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO IAEA, GLYN DAVIES, SAYING "The resolution is a necessary and appropriate step in light of the troubling findings in the IAEA
  • Embargoed: 25th June 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Austria, Austria
  • Country: Austria
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAANIY9D9GW4A3EDNOHYUT36N0O
  • Story Text: Syria's referral to the U.N. Security Council by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was "necessary and appropriate", the U.S. ambassador to the IAEA said on Thursday (June 9).
    The U.N. nuclear watchdog board reported Syria to the Security Council on Thursday for covert atomic work, a U.S.-led move coinciding with Western condemnation of Damascus's crackdown on opposition protests.
    Russia and China voted against the proposal at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), highlighting big power divisions and probably ruling out any follow-up punitive measures by the U.N. council in New York.
    With 17 votes in favour and six against, the IAEA's 35-nation board adopted the resolution rebuking the Arab state for three years of stonewalling of an agency probe into the Dair Alzour complex destroyed by Israel in 2007.
    U.S. intelligence reports have said it was a nascent, North Korean-designed reactor intended to produce plutonium for atomic bombs before it was bombed to rubble.
    The IAEA, the Vienna-based U.N. atomic agency, gave independent backing to the U.S. allegation in a report last month which said it was "very likely" to have been a reactor.
    Syria says it was a military, non-nuclear facility.
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