U.N. Atomic Agency Says Syria Ready to Meet Inspectors
The U.N. atomic agency said Monday Syria is ready to meet inspectors in Damascus next month to discuss a desert site bombed by Israel in 2007 and thought to have been a secret nuclear facility.
Syria in a letter "stated its readiness to have a meeting with agency safeguards staff in Damascus in October," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Yukiya Amano told a regular meeting of its board in Vienna.
"Syria's letter stated that the purpose of the meeting would be 'to agree on an action plan to resolve the surrounding issues in regards to (the) Dair al-Zour site,'" Amano said, according to the text of his remarks.
On June 9, the IAEA decided to report Syria's to the U.N. Security Council after concluding that the site was "very likely" an undeclared reactor. There are also suspicions it was built with help from North Korea.
Amano said that the nuclear watchdog has proposed the meeting takes place on October 10-11.
Source: Agence France Presse
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