1. Baghdad now demands that if inspections of any kind are to resume, the UNSCOM must be restructured to be more like the atomic agency. 2. For a year the atomic agency has been reporting that it cannot find evidence of a nuclear-weapons program in Iraq. 3. He also said that he is not spying at his new atomic agency post. 4. Iraq successfully hid a nuclear-weapons program from the atomic agency for more than a decade. 5. Atomic agency monitors, however, will be allowed to continue working. 6. But the U.N. atomic agency plays down that threat, saying the danger is limited to radioactive dust getting out and contaminating the local area around the power plant. 7. India and Pakistan joined the ranks Monday of traditional targets Iraq and North Korea for flaunting nuclear weapons conventions, as the U.N. atomic agency opened its annual conference. 8. Mikhailov also said Moscow has told the U.N. atomic agency the location of uranium and plutonium removed from nuclear weapons once deployed in former Soviet republics. 9. The General Assembly approved Thursday the annual report of the U.N. atomic agency despite North Korean objections that it was being unduly pressured over its nuclear program. |
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