AUSTRIA: THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY LABORATORY IN VIENNA WHO REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES.

Record ID: 590768

  • Title: AUSTRIA: THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY LABORATORY IN VIENNA WHO REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES.
  • Date: 19th December 2002
  • Summary: (U3) VIENNA, AUSTRIA (DECEMBER 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: OF INTERIOR OF NUCLEAR MONITORING LABORATORY WITH TECHNICIANS AT WORK. (4 SHOTS) 0.17 2. VARIOUS: OF MONITORING EQUIPMENT. (16 SHOTS) 1.46 3. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIT MANAGER, MARK SCHANFEIN, SAYING: "We are not the army. We don't stop people for doing things, we record what people do and we are like a newspaper. We take our results and write a report and present it to the U.N. and then it's up to the world as to what they want to do. We have speciality techniques specific areas of nuclear material. That's what this equipment is for." 2.14 4. VARIOUS: OF MONITORING EQUIPMENT. (4 SHOTS) 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd January 2003 12:00
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  • Location: VIENNA, AUSTRIA
  • Country: Austria
  • Reuters ID: LVA4Z3MGIYPEDGNF2IQBSDT1OV8P
  • Story Text: Reuters gained access to the International Atomic
    Energy Agency (IAEA) laboratory where so-called "rogue states"
    are monitored by experts who report to the United Nations and
    other public agencies.



    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
    laboratory in the Austrian Capital Vienna was set up as an
    autonomous organization under the United Nations in 1957. Its
    primary function is to control and develop the use of atomic
    energy.

    Serving as an inter-governmental forum for scientific and
    technical co-operation, the agency maintains field and liaison
    offices in Canada, Geneva, New York and Tokyo, operates
    laboratories in Austria and Monaco and supports a research
    centre in Trieste, Italy that is administered by the United
    Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO).

    Unit manager Mark Schanfein told Reuters the IAEA acts
    rather like a newspaper.

    "We don't stop people doing things. We take our results
    and write a report and present it to the U.N. and then it's
    up to the world as to what they want to do," Schanfein added.

    The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency told the
    Security Council on Thursday (December 19), Iraq must provide
    more data on its past nuclear arms programme, particularly
    designs of now-destroyed bomb-making equipment.

    Iraq submitted a 12,000-page declaration on December 7 on
    its weapons of mass destruction, called for under a November 8
    U.N. council resolution.

    In an assessment of the Iraqi arms declaration, the United
    States said it considered Iraq to be in "material breach" of
    the resolution by failing to disclose its weapons of mass
    destruction, increasing the risk of military action.

    Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International
    Atomic Energy Agency, in charge of nuclear arms inspectors,
    said the declaration contained "no substantive changes" from
    previous data given to weapons inspectors in 1998, when they
    had to leave Iraq.

    The IAEA had examined over 2,000 pages from the
    declaration pertaining to nuclear-related issues. Chemical,
    biological and ballistic weapons are under the jurisdiction of
    the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission,
    headed by Hans Blix in New York.


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