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54th IAEA general conference opens
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| Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), addresses the 54th General Conference of IAEA in Vienna, capital of Austria, Sept. 20, 2010. The 54th IAEA General Conference opened here on Monday, with the participation of representatives of 151 countries. (Xinhua/Xu Liang) |
In the opening statement of the conference, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano noted that no progress had been achieved on the development of model safeguards agreements toward establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region.
At last year's General Conference, an Arab nations-supported resolution was passed calling for Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and putting all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive safeguards of IAEA.
The United States and its allies have been trying to block the resolution being adopted again this year, on the grounds that talk of Israeli nuclear issue could jeopardise newly-launched Middle East peace talks.
A Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) statement to the board rejected the U.S. reasoning behind excluding Israeli nuclear issue, noting that stability cannot be achieved in a region where massive imbalances in military capabilities are maintained particularly through the possession of nuclear weapons.
Israel has enacted a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying the existence of its atomic warheads.
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TEHRAN, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Iranian lawmaker Hossein Sobhani- Nia criticized the recent reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran, saying the agency should observe impartiality, the local satellite Press TV reported on Sunday.
"As we have already announced, Iran has had very good cooperation with the IAEA even beyond the agency's regulations. We expect the IAEA to observe complete impartiality in its statements, " Sobhani-Nia was quoted as saying. Full story
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