Word: iaea
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...citing Moscow's long-standing refusal to allow arms inspectors on Soviet soil. Last week the Soviets took a small step toward spiking that criticism. At a ceremony in Vienna, the U.S.S.R. signed an agreement that for the first time allows the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect carefully selected parts of Moscow's civilian nuclear industry. Said Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrovsky at the signing: "On the eve of U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva, we feel it is necessary to create a favorable atmosphere...
...agreement is an adjunct to the 1970 nonproliferation treaty, designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. More than 90 other nations have similar arrangements with the IAEA, including the U.S., which signed an inspection agreement in 1980. Moscow did not agree to the idea in principle until 1982, and subsequent negotiations on the actual terms of the new document took 16 months. How important a concession is the accord? That may depend on what Soviet facilities have been opened for inspection: the latest, advanced civilian nuclear plants, or merely old, outdated ones...
Shultz's threat was explicit but not surprising. Only last month the U.S., along with Britain and France, walked out of a meeting of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna after it voted to refuse to recognize Israel's credentials as a member. In response Shultz announced that the U.S. would suspend the payment of $8.5 million in dues to the IAEA while Washington reconsiders its participation in the organization...
Roger Richter Former IAEA Nuclear Safeguards Inspector Washington...
...international agreements to combat proliferation; 3) a commitment to "inhibit the transfer of sensitive nuclear material, equipment and technology" from the nuclear haves to the havenots; and 4) a pledge of strong support for the world's only nuclear weapons watchdog, the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...