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Turkey backs Syria’s cooperation with the IAEA over its nuclear dossier
A briefing at the UN Office in Vienna addressed Syria’s nuclear dossier and the Damascus administration’s cooperation with the IAEA. The briefing also assessed findings concerning several tons of nuclear material said to have been left in Deir ez-Zor by the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime.
Syria’s nuclear dossier was discussed at a briefing held at the UN Office in Vienna ahead of a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors. The session, held before the meeting planned for Sept. 7-11, addressed IAEA officials’ visits to Syria and findings concerning nuclear materials in the country.
Turkey supports Damascus’s cooperation
Mustafa Kibaroglu, Türkiye’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN Office in Vienna, said the briefing showed that Syria’s new government wanted to close the nuclear dossier inherited from the ousted regime through the IAEA.
Noting that Syria had entered a new period, Kibaroglu said Türkiye attached great importance to the close cooperation maintained by the Damascus administration with the IAEA. Kibaroglu added that Türkiye welcomed IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi’s visit to Syria on Aug. 17-18.
Kibaroglu said Türkiye supported the Syrian government’s normalization efforts with the international community and emphasized the importance of this cooperation.
Several tons of nuclear material in Deir ez-Zor
IAEA Director General Grossi announced in Damascus on Aug. 18 that several tons of nuclear material said to have been left over from the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime had been found in Deir ez-Zor province. Grossi also said that the site had been opened to IAEA inspectors.
A report distributed by the IAEA to member states and leaked to the international press said that agency inspectors had conducted verification work at various sites in Syria in August.
The report said that the field visits had established that the Assad regime had failed to declare the nuclear materials, facilities and activities it was required to report under its safeguards agreement pursuant to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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