AUSTRIA: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES THIRD TERM FOR MOHAMED ELBARADEI AS ITS CHIEF

Record ID: 647190

  • Title: AUSTRIA: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES THIRD TERM FOR MOHAMED ELBARADEI AS ITS CHIEF
  • Date: 13th June 2005
  • Summary: (W3) VIENNA, AUSTRIA (JUNE 13, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WS: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) DELEGATES GATHERING INSIDE CONFERENCE ROOM 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF DELEGATES INSIDE CONFERENCE ROOM (3 SHOTS) 0.20 3. SIRUS NASSERI, HEAD OF IRANIAN DELEGATION WALKING INSIDE ROOM 0.29 4. VARIOUS OF DELEGATIONS (6 SHOTS) 1.04 (BN13) VIENNA, AUSTRIA (JUNE 13, 2005)(REUTERS) 5. HEAD OF IAEA MOHAMMED ELBARADEI ENTERING NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM AND HIS COLLEAGUES APPLAUDING AT HIS RE-APPOINTMENT 1.10 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF IAEA MOHAMMED ELBARADEI, SAYING: "I am going to report that Iran has facilitated access to nuclear material, to nuclear sites. I am going to report that Iran has respected its commitment with regard to the suspension of the fuel cycle activities, these are all positive. I am also going to say that we are making progress with regard to the contamination issue and we are getting good co-operation from Pakistan in that regard. But, I am also going to say that still on the issue on the extent and nature of the centrifuge programme we still need additional information from Iran. So, we are inching forward, but Id like to have more speedy co-operation on the part of Iran." 1.50 7. REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS 1.53 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ELBARADEI, SAYING: "I think that the U.S. made it clear that they have the policy of two terms for heads of international organisations. They have also made it clear that they are ready to listen to the views of the Board of Governors, they have said that they would join the consensus because the overwhelming majority of the Board subscribed to my continuation in the office." 2.17 9. ELBARADEI LEAVING ROOM 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: VIENNA, AUSTRIA
  • Country: Austria
  • Reuters ID: LVAEA7ND6KLKHBMKOSWK603JHWYX
  • Story Text: U.N. nuclear watchdog unanimously approves a third
    term for Mohamed ElBaradei as the agency's chief.



    The governing board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog
    unanimously approved a third term for Mohamed ElBaradei as
    the agency's chief on Monday (June 13, 2005) after Washington
    gave up its efforts to oust him.

    The United States lost the battle to depose ElBaradei,
    but it has not given up its fight against Iran's nuclear
    programme, which it says is a front to develop nuclear
    weapons.

    Iran denies this, insisting its atomic ambitions are
    limited to the peaceful generation of electricity.

    Washington had said it opposed the re-appointment of
    the 62-year-old Egyptian, who has run the International
    Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1997, because it believes
    U.N. agency heads should have only two terms. But U.N.

    diplomats say the real reason is that the U.S. believed he
    was soft on Iraq and Iran.

    Diplomats at the Vienna-based IAEA denied ElBaradei had
    cut a deal with the Americans to win their support for
    another four-year term when the 35 nations on the IAEA
    board voted.

    Following his re-election ElBaradei told a news
    conference he was not ready to end his two-year probe of
    Iran's atomic programme.

    "I am going to report that Iran has facilitated access
    to nuclear material, to nuclear sites. I am going to
    report that Iran has respected its commitment with regard to the
    suspension of the fuel cycle activities, these are
    all positive," ElBaradei said.

    However, he added that Iran needed to provide more
    information about its enrichment centrifuge programme.

    Centrifuges are machines that purify uranium by
    spinning at supersonic speeds. Tehran had concealed its
    enrichment programme from the IAEA for nearly two decades
    before information about it was revealed by a group of
    Iranian exiles in August 2002.


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