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Three Messages From the IAEA's Board of Governors

IN THIS ISSUE: Three messages from the IAEA, the new missile risk on the Korean Peninsula, Iran, DPRK and Syria failing obligations to UN nuclear agency, Japan, US agree on second missile deal, Pakistan tests nuclear-capable Hatf-VII missile, ambiguous new nuclear policy.

Published on September 18, 2012
 

Three Messages From the IAEA's Board of Governors

Mark Hibbs | Arms Control Wonk

Amano

Not for the first time, the IAEA Board of Governors on Thursday afternoon passed a resolution on safeguards implementation in Iran which said a few things that its sponsors neglected to point out when they explained the results to the Vienna press corps minutes after the vote was taken behind the closed doors of the M Building at the VIC.

There wasn't a lot of trouble–sans some Chinese difficulties for a couple of days in getting their ducks to line up in the same direction in Beijing and Vienna–in getting all six countries to agree to this text. After all, this was in effect a lowest-common-denominator product, and the main intention of this resolution was to emphasize that the diplomatic process should continue and that the war of words should not intensify. There were in fact three messages sent by GOV/48. Two messages were for Iran. The other was a message to Israel.  Full Article



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