Posted by NEWS on 15/6/2005, 21:33:12 There is little concern the Saudis are trying to make nuclear arms, but Riyadh's resistance to inspections adds another worry for a top-level meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency this week that is focusing on North Korea and Iran. Those two countries are the world's major concerns about the spread of atomic weapons. On Tuesday, the IAEA chief, Mohamed El Baradei, urged North Korea to back away from its nuclear program and asked Iran to cooperate better with the U.N. investigation of its nuclear activities. The Saudis insist they have no plans to develop nuclear arms and no facilities or nuclear stocks that warrant inspection. But they have been under pressure to allow a U.N. inspection before a deal comes into force that would effectively curtail the IAEA's monitoring there.
Saudis balk at U.N. inspection efforts
Saudi Arabia is defying the United States, the European Union and Australia by resisting U.N. efforts to verify that it has no nuclear assets worth inspecting, according to a confidential EU document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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