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India allows Israelis to JERUSALEM, Nov 11: India has allowed Israeli families to adopt Indian orphan children when all the earlier major donor states have declined due to ....more US
says major combat WASHINGTON, Nov 11: Despite an upsurge in violence and daily US deaths, a top Adviser to President George W Bush has said that major....more Sri
Lanka President, COLOMBO, Nov 11: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister has accepted an invitation to meet the President tomorrow, but neither appears ready for compromise ...more Chinese navy ready to step up Sino-Indian bilateral ties SHANGHAI, Nov 11: The Chinese navy is ready to step up contacts with their Indian counterpart to increase.......more |
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Resolve disputes to NEW DELHI, Nov 11: In an apparent reference to Indo-Pak tensions over Kashmir, Pakistan today said a "right environment" to boost cooperation and ....more Rumsfeld says US not grasping for Iraq exit plan WASHINGTON, Nov 11: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said the Bush ....more Asia
Pacific salary HONG KONG, Nov 11: There was an average overall salary increase in Asia with.....more International
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India allows Israelis to adopt children: Report JERUSALEM, Nov 11: India has allowed Israeli families to adopt Indian orphan children when all the earlier major donor states have declined due to security reasons and concern for the safety of the adopted children. The agreement, which was expected to come through in January, could be achieved only about a month ago because India objected to the Israeli demand to convert the adopted children to Judaism in Israel. Later, the Israeli Foreign Ministry intevened, saying that it would be good for the children adopted, who would be living with Jewish families, and managed to persuade the Indian Government to agree, the daily ‘Ha Aretz’ reported today. Amatzia, a non-profit organization under the national religious party’s Emunah women’s movement, initiated the contact with India after most existing foreign adoption sources dried up. It is one of some 10 agencies licensed to bring foreign children in Israel for adoption. Romania, Ukraine, Russia and the Phillipines, so far the main sources for adoption of children by Israelis families, shut their doors during the last two years. Amatzia also used to bring children from Guatemala where it was possible to adopt toddlers from the age of four months, with the added advantage that most of them were kept in foster homes rather than in orphanages. But it too began putting obstacles in the way of foreign adoptions and for a while almost ceased to allow them, in a bid to adjust its laws to the hague treaty to prevent the kidnapping of children. The paper quoted Amatzia director, Shulamit Wallfish as saying that the ties with India were formed during an international adoption conference last year in New Delhi, and the organization sent its experts, including a psychologist and a legal counsellor, to check conditions. The children in India are kept in orphanages and not in foster families, but there are many care-takers and the children appeared calm and comfortable, she added. Amatzia’s representatives went to north India, where the children’s skin is fairer, to better suit the demands of the Israeli families, Wallfish said. Australia and European states also adopt children in India, where the number of orphans is almost unlimited, and are satisfied with the results, she said. The Israeli Social Affairs Ministry has approved the agreement, the daily added. (UNI) |
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US says major combat not resumed in Iraq WASHINGTON, Nov 11: Despite an upsurge in violence and daily US deaths, a top Adviser to President George W Bush has said that major combat operations in Iraq have not resumed but acknowledged the United States is going through a difficult time. White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice also said bush was not distancing himself from American casualties. Bush has attended no funerals for troops killed in Iraq but does write personal notes to the families. Bush is expected to talk about war sacrifice during veterans day remarks today. "The President is Commander in Chief, he cannot distance himself from American casualties," Rice told Seattle’s king television, an nbc affiliate. "These are the men and women in uniform whom he commands and he feels acutely every loss." "He understands that he is asking the American armed forces and American families to make the great sacrifices. But the fact is that nothing of value has ever been won without sacrifice." US forces are fighting resistance forces who have killed 153 American troops since bush declared major combat operations over on May 1. Insurgents also downed two US helicopters in Iraq this month. Signaling a possible increase in efforts to destroy the guerrilla campaign, US F-16 jets over the weekend dropped 500-pound bombs on the town of Falluja, where some of the anti-American resistance is centered. "Major combat operations have not resumed in Iraq by really any stretch of the imagination," Rice told king, as a part of a series of regional television interviews aimed at bypassing the national news media out of concern it is not covering events in Iraq fairly. "What has happened is there are some elements of the old regime that are making common cause with some foreign fighters in what I think could classically be described as an insurgency or insurgency plus terrorism," she said. With many Americans wanting to bring US troops home and Bush facing re-election in a year, Rice said the United States is accelerating efforts to train Iraqis to get them to take over police and military duties. She said the number of those Iraqis involved in Iraqi security is now up to 118,000 Iraqis. Iraqis can better identify the enemy, she said. "Iraqis are going to be more effective at knowing who these people are, at rooting them out, at going after them. We will of course be there and will be there in large numbers to be a part of that activity," Rice said. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week that 43,000 reserve and national guard troops and nearly 70,000 regular marine and army soldiers were being notified for duty in an Iraq rotation plan that will reduce US forces there from 132,000 now to 105,000 by mid-2004. The commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen John Abizaid, told Bush on Monday that there is "high morale" among US troops said, contradicting a variety of anecdotal evidence reported locally across the country that American troops are frustrated and want to come home. When Bush made a similar remark on Monday on a visit to little rock, Arkansas, a staff member for retired Gen Wesley Clark, an Arkansas native running for the democratic Presidential nomination, questioned it. "Morale is high? it’s easy for mr. Bush to tell donors at a 2,000-a-plate fund-raiser that morale is high," said Clark communications director Matt Bennett. "I’d love to see what he has to say to the nearly 400 grieving families who’ve lost a loved one and the 1,800 soldiers recovering from their wounds." (AGENCIES) |
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Sri Lanka President, Prime Minister plan to meet COLOMBO, Nov 11: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister has accepted an invitation to meet the President tomorrow, but neither appears ready for compromise in a power struggle that threatens efforts to restart peace talks with Tamil rebels. Cabinet spokesman G L Peiris said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will hold talks with President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who sacked three cabinet ministers and suspended Parliament last week because she felt the Prime Minister was making too many concessions to the rebels. Wickremesinghe was in Washington at the time. But Peiris indicated that Wickremesinghe was unlikely to support the President’s call for a national unity government. "The Prime Minister believes his main task is the fragility of this (peace) process and practical ways of mitigating that damage," Peiris told a news conference today. "That is the main matter he would like to discuss with her excellency, the President," he said. "The Prime Minister would like to emphasise that he enjoys the support of 130 members of Parliament and there is no need whatsoever in regard to change," he said of the 225-seat legislature. News of the meeting came as two envoys from peace broker Norway arrived for discussions aimed at getting the government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) back to the negotiating table. Their visit has been overshadowed by the political turmoil. Tomorrow’s meeting will be the first between the President and Prime Minister — who are elected separately — since the crisis erupted last week when Kumaratunga sacked the defence, interior and media ministers and suspended Parliament until November 19. Her office said the meeting was "to discuss the current political situation" and to get Wickremesinghe’s views "on her call for a grand alliance of all national and patriotic forces, with the objective of forming a Government of national reconstruction and reconciliation." Peiris said yesterday that Wickremesinghe would ask the President to take over the peace process if she did not restore the ministries. With Wickremesinghe confident of his popular support and of keeping his majority in Parliament, he will be under pressure from his own party to stand firm in the contest of wills with the President. For Kumaratunga, who has vast powers under the constitution, giving back the ministries would be an admission of weakness after last week’s power grab, but agreeing to handle the peace process would alienate her from her left-wing supporters. The power struggle comes as Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen and peace envoy Erik Solheim try to arrange preliminary talks between the Government and LTTE to sort out issues and logistics before resuming direct talks to end a 20-year civil war. But Peiris said the current crisis was complicating efforts to end a 20-year civil war that has killed 64,000 people and sapped the economy of the island state off the southern tip of India. The envoys were scheduled to meet Wickremesinghe later today and Kumaratunga, who narrowly survived a rebel suicide bomb attack in 1999, tomorrow before meeting the Tigers on Thursday. A Norwegian-brokered ceasefire has been in force since February 2002 but peace talks stalled in April. The LTTE, which has been fighting since 1983 for a separate state for minority Tamils in the country’s north and east, had no immediate comment on the latest developments. Peiris said this week the Government was ready for snap elections if the crisis resulted in the dissolution of Parliament. The Prime Minister and President are elected separately, and tension between them has grown since Wickremesinghe won Parliamentary elections late in 2001 and forged ahead with a peace process that had stalled under the President’s direction. Calls for a unity Government have surfaced repeatedly over the past decade but have never succeeded because of deep policy and personal differences between the main parties. (AGENCIES) |
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Chinese navy ready to step up Sino-Indian bilateral ties SHANGHAI, Nov 11: The Chinese navy is ready to step up contacts with their Indian counterpart to increase mutual trust and confidence as well as safeguard the vital maritime interests of the two nations, a top official has said. Welcoming a high-level visit by Indian navy to China, the Commander of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (plan) eastern sea fleet, Vice Admiral Zhao Guojun said the friendly port call by the Indian naval ships to Shanghai would enhance mutual trust and cooperation between the armed forces and contribute to the further development of bilateral ties between the two neighbouring nations. Briefing the Flag Officer Commanding of the Eastern Command, Vice Admiral O P Bansal on the role of the eastern sea fleet of the plan, Zhao here last night said the warships under his command had to play a crucial role to safeguard China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, especially with the ‘Taiwan issue’ remaining unresolved. China views taiwan as a rebel province that must be reunified with the Chinese mainland, even by force. Stressing that the Chinese defence forces were pursuing a policy of ‘active defence’, Zhao said he was looking forward to enhance its cooperation with the Indian defence forces in future and the first-ever joint search and operations manoeuvres scheduled for November 14 would promote greater understanding. Vice Admiral Bansal, heading a high-level Indian naval delegation currently on a five day visit, accompanied by an armada of three warships - INS Ranjit, a guided-missile destroyer, INS Kulish, a guided-missile corvette and INS Jyoti, a replenishment tanker, also expressed the desire of the Indian defence forces to step up military-to-military ties with the People’s Liberation Army as decided by the leadership of the two countries. Bansal was confident that increased contacts and cooperation between the Indian navy and the plan would boost bilateral military-to-military ties and contribute positively to the development of bilateral ties. The meeting was attended among others by the Indian Ambassador to China, Nalin Surie, the Flag Officer Commanding of the eastern fleet of the Indian navy, rear Admiral R Suthan. The three Indian warships are here to take part in the first India-China naval exercises that are scheduled to take place off the Shanghai coast on November 14. Apart from enhancing mutual trust and confidence, the exercises are also aimed at ensuring the safety of maritime trade and improving coordination in search and rescue at sea. (PTI) |
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Resolve disputes to boost coop among SAARC nations: Pak NEW DELHI, Nov 11: In an apparent reference to Indo-Pak tensions over Kashmir, Pakistan today said a "right environment" to boost cooperation and development among SAARC countries was possible only if determined efforts were made to "resolve disputes" and not allow them to simmer. "Close cooperation and development can only develop in a regional grouping when there is complete political harmony among its members," Pakistan Foreign Minister Sheikh Rashid told the third SAARC Information Ministers’ conference here. Stressing the need for "creating the right environment, in which cooperation and development can flourish", he said "this would only be possible if determined efforts are made to resolve disputes and issues and not allow them to simmer". Noting that SAARC’s record of achievements did not compare with such "successful" groupings as the European union or even ASEAN, the Pakistani Minister said "we need to address causes of this situation". "Today, more than half of the world’s absolutely poor are found in south Asia. Yet SAARC’s role has remained marginal," he said, adding that EU is developing a common defence and foreign policy, ASEAN too has set up a political forum. "However, we in SAARC are lagging behind". Pakistan remained committed to the principles and purpose of SSARC, he said that he had come to the meeting with "open mind, high hopes and expectations," Rashid said. Noting that Pakistani print media are in the vanguard of those advocating better understanding and cooperation for development, he said "however, there are limits to the contribution this field can make to improving trust and confidence between member states because the media have to reflect the realities on the ground". He said Pakistan has been suggesting a broadening of the scope of SAARC’s areas of concern to permit consideration of political problems. The group of eminent persons too have recommended a broadening of SAARC’s terms of reference for better results. The confidence building measures implemented by the two countries as part of the normalisation process has contributed considerably towards improving the regional atmosphere, he said, adding that the atmosphere would positively impact the conference deliberations. He hoped that the conference would also contribute to the success of the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January next.(PTI) |
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Rumsfeld says US not grasping for Iraq exit plan WASHINGTON, Nov 11: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said the Bush administration was not grasping for an exit strategy in Iraq by fielding hastily trained Iraqi security forces, and said his top commanders have assured him the insurgency is under control. In a briefing with Asian journalists, Rumsfeld also said the United States was talking with 14 countries about providing troops to serve in Iraq, but said it would take political courage for any country to send soldiers there. Rumsfeld said the United States has trained and fielded 118,000 Iraqis serving in security forces including police, border patrol and guards at oil pipelines and other sites, with the number to reach 220,000 under an accelerated training program. He has noted Iraqi security forces soon will outnumber the 130,000 US troops in Iraq, and argued that Iraqis must ultimately be responsible for security in their own country. The Pentagon last week announced a plan to reduce US forces in Iraq to 105,000 by next May. "But let me be clear. The goal is not to reduce the number of US forces in Iraq. It’s not to develop an exit strategy. Our exit strategy in Iraq is success. It’s that simple," Rumsfeld said yesterday. US lawmakers including republican Sen John Mccain of Arizona have questioned the wisdom of the Pentagon’s strategy of relying heavily on Iraqi security forces with only a few weeks training to combat an insurgency that so far has vexed the American military. Mccain, an influential voice in Congress on defense matters, said rushing Iraqi security forces into the field "sends a signal of desperation." Suggesting it is up to these Iraqis to defeat the insurgency, Mccain added, sends a message that an exit strategy is more important than winning. US forces are fighting resistance forces who have killed 153 American troops since President George W Bush declared major combat operations over on May 1. Insurgents also downed two US Helicopters in Iraq this month. Rumsfeld said he spoke earlier on Monday with Gen John Abizaid, head of US Central Command, and Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the top US general in Iraq. "They feel that the problem is in control, which is not to say that a terrorist can’t attack at any time, at any place, using any technique," Rumsfeld said. Rumsfeld did not identify the 14 countries from which he said the United States was seeking troops in addition to the two multinational divisions already in Iraq. "I would like to see a lot of troops from other countries. And I’ll tell you why: I think it’s important for other countries to have a commitment to Iraq and to the success in Iraq," he said. "I recognize that it takes political courage. ... It also takes physical courage to put people in Iraq, where people are getting killed and wounded from time to time," he said. (AGENCIES) |
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Asia Pacific salary increases low in 2003: Survey HONG KONG, Nov 11: There was an average overall salary increase in Asia with the highest in India followed by South Korea, the Philippines and China, a survey conducted by global human resources consultants Hewitt associates indicated today. As in the previous year, employees in the Indian Software Development Industry were awarded the highest average salary increases, at 14 per cent. This figure was 10 percentage points lower than the industry’s average salary increase last year. The firm surveyed 991 foreign, locally-owned and joint-venture companies between July and September 2003 in 11 markets — India, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan. Hewitt said in a statement that projections for 2004 indicate pay rises will remain marginal, though fewer companies are expecting pay freezes. Respondents in all countries projected, on average, salary increases for 2004 that were merely 1.0 percent higher than increases in 2003. Nevertheless, far fewer companies are projecting pay freezes in 2004, Hewitt said. "Although employees in countries with faster growing economies still saw reasonable pay rises, the increases are only slightly higher than those of the previous year," said Mick Bennett, Hewitt’s regional managing director. "Employers are still cautious over the slow pace of the economic recovery, and the outbreak of SARS earlier in the year may have had some impact on salary increases because there are fears the virus will return as the weather gets colder," he said. In almost all cases, employers appear a little more confident about the direction of the economy in 2004, reflected in the projections for slightly higher salary increases next year. Excluding India, employees in the Philippines enjoyed the biggest average salary increases, ranging from 7.1 percent to 8.6 percent across job categories, compared with the respective 2002 figures of 6.4 percent to almost 10 percent. In China, employees continued to enjoy average salary increases ranging from 6.7 percent to 7.3 percent, although those in senior/top management saw lower increases. The respective figures in China for 2002 were 6.5 percent and 8.7 percent. In the more developed economies of Hong Kong and Singapore, salary increases remained low. In Singapore, the average overall salary increase budget for 2003 ranged from 2.1 percent to 2.4 percent, while Hong Kong’s employees were left with increases in the range of just 1.3 percent to 1.5 percent. Elsewhere in the region, in Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan and Australia, average salary increases for 2003 ranged between 3.0 percent and 5.0 percent. (AFP) |
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International Taj year to be celebrated in 2004: Aggarwal LONDON, Nov 11: An international Taj year will be organised next year to celebrate the 500th year of Agra being made the national capital by the then ruling Muslim king in 1504, Uttar Pradesh Tourism Minister Naresh Aggarwal said here last night. "We are organising an international Taj year at Agra in October next year in which important countries of the world which are dependant on tourism will be invited to participate," Aggarwal told newsmen. In an effort to give a fresh fillip to tourism in the state, he said the Government has divided the state into five sectors for development of tourism. They included the Braj sector which contain Agra, famous for Taj and Mathura, the birth place of Lord Krishna, Bundel Khand, known for the valour of Rani Laxmi Bhai and Jhansi Ki Rani, the awad sector including Lucknow, the seat of Nawabs, Ayodhya, the birth place of Lord Rama and the Dudhwa national sanctuary. He said the Japanese bank for international cooperation has supported the infrastructure development of the bodh sector including Kushinagar, Sarnath and Kapilvastu to the extent of Rs 700 crores and in the 2nd phase another Rs 1062 crores was being negotiated. He said efforts were also on to open the world famous Taj for viewing by tourists in moonlight. "We will develop tourism with culture," Aggarwal said. The State Government was also pressing the Prime Minister to declare Agra as an international airport, Aggarwal, who is here to participate in the world travel market, said. (PTI) |
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Task force being set up for utilising rupee-rouble debt funds MOSCOW, Nov 11: In a bid to accord a fresh impetus to Indo-Russian business, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapyee has said a task force is being set up to work out modalities of utilising the remainder of rupee-rouble debt funds for investments in both countries. "We are focussing on diversification from the traditional items of trade to high-tech areas of cooperation including joint design and development of equipment, information technology and bio-technology. Some Indian banks have extended credit lines to Russian banks to facilitate trade," he told Russian Information agency `Novosti’ in an interview. Vajpayee, who flew for Moscow today on a three-day visit to Russia as part of his week-long three-nation tour, said "we look forward to earliest completion of formalities for the opening of an Indian joint venture bank in Moscow". Contending that particular attention needed to be paid to mutual investments, the Prime Minsiter said Indian investment of over US dollar 1.5 billion in the Sakhalin-1 project had proved the compatibility and workability of efforts for mutual benefit. "A task force for is being set up with the objective to work out modalities of utilising the remainder of rupee-rouble debt funds for investment in both countries," he said. A 100-member strong Indian business delegation will be in Moscow during the Prime Minister’s visit to establish useful contacts with Russian business and industry to put trade and investment relation on a firm footing even after rupee-rouble arrangement ceases to operate. Regretting that Indo-Russian trade today stood at about 1.5 billion USd, which did not correspond to the complementarities in their economies, Vajpayee said the two countries were paying particular attention for mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation. "The India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission is important mechanism to give direction and thrust in this field. "But our business exterprises and industry organsiations should also be mobilised to proactively exploit the many new opportunities presented by globalisation and by economic liberalisation in both countries," he said. The Prime Minsiter said business communities of the two countries must interact more closely and develop commercial relations to benefit from each others’ strengths and added the business delegation present during his visit would not only comprise Indian but also international business. Asked about steps that should be taken to resolve pressing problems of political and economic security in Asia and the world, he said "the world is going through a difficult political and economic phase in the post-cold war era. "Recent international developments have demonstrated the need for greater efforts for the construction of a cooperative multipolar world order," he said, maintaining that advances in information and communication technologies had also created tools by which international terrorism sought to hold democracies to ransom. (PTI) Jessica lynch was not raped, say Iraqi doctors NASSIRIYA, IRAQ, Nov 11: Iraqi doctors who treated US soldier Jessica lynch have dismissed allegations made in her biography that she was raped during her capture in Iraq, saying she had the best possible care. Surgeons who treated private lynch for multiple injuries after her convoy was attacked near the southern city of Nassiriya in the initial days of the US-led invasion in March said they were shocked and hurt by accusations that she was sexually assaulted. In "I am a soldier, too: The Jessica lynch story" to be published today, the author says US military medical records indicated lynch was raped and sodomised before she was evacuated from a Nassiriya hospital in a US commando raid widely publicised through the world. The ABC television network quoted lynch, unconscious after her injuries, as saying she did not remember any sexual assault, adding: "even just the thinking about that, that’s too painful." A rocket-propelled grenade attack on lynch’s humvee military vehicle on March 23 left her with a broken leg, arm and ankle and a gash across her head. Eleven other soldiers were killed in the attack in which the humvee crashed into another vehicle. Dr Jamal Kadhim Shwail was the first doctor to examine lynch when she was brought to Nassiriya’s military hospital by Iraqi special police. Shwail said lynch was lying in the crowded reception of the hospital, unconscious and in shock from blood loss. She was wearing her uniform including a flak jacket, military trousers and boots, none of her clothes had been unbuttoned or removed, as the book claims, he said. "We only had a few minutes to save her life, we found a vein in her neck to give her fluids and blood," Shwail told at his home in Nassiriya. A team of five doctors treated lynch, who was given an anaesthetic to allow a 15-cm (six-inch) cut to her head to be stitched and her fractures realigned. He said her flak jacket was removed and her clothes were cut away to expose the injured sites. The anaesthetist cut away an area around her groin to insert a catheter to drain urine. (AGENCIES) New law in Singapore aimed at foiling cyberterrorists SINGAPORE, Nov 11: Police and security agencies were equipped with sweeping powers today enabling them to act ahead of suspected online cyberterrorism. A revamped computer misuse act allows "pre-emptive action" based on credible information before hackers strike, and protects computer networks against unauthorized entry. Prior to amendments passed in Parliament on Monday, authorities could only act after the havoc was discovered. Lawmaker Ho Geok Choon described the amended law as the "cyberspace equivalent of the internal security act". Anyone who hacks or defaces a websites may be jailed for up to three years or fined up to 10,000 Singapore dollars (5,700 US). Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee said the powers would be used only in the face of imminent threat and "special situations". These include threats to a computer system that can jeopardize national security, essential services, defence or foreign relations of the nation. Several members of parliament sought assurances the wide- ranging powers would not be misused. Security services have seen a marked increase in the number and sophistication of hacking activities and cyberattacks, Ho said. "Instead of a backpack of explosives, a terrorist can create just as much devastation by sending a carefully engineered packet of data into the computer systems which control the network for essential services, for example, the power stations," Ho noted. (DPA) UN says Iran produced small amount of plutonium VIENNA, Nov 11: The UN nuclear watchdog has said in a confidential report it had not found evidence of an atomic bomb programme in Iran, but that Tehran had dabbled in activity often associated with arms like plutonium production. The United States has accused Iran of using a civilian nuclear energy programme as a front to build a bomb. Iran denies this is and says it was forced to hide some nuclear activities because of decades of sanctions, which it says were illegal. "To date there is no evidence that (Iran’s) previously undeclared nuclear material and activities referred to above were related to a nuclear weapons programme," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in the confidential report yesterday, which was obtained . "However, given Iran’s past pattern of concealment, it will take some time before the agency is able to conclude that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes." On September 12, the IAEA board of Governors gave Iran an October 31 deadline to come clean about its nuclear programme. To meet the deadline, Iran made a number of admissions about having hidden activities that could be connected to weapons production. "Iran has admitted that it produced small amounts of low enriched uranium using both centrifuges and laser enrichment processes... And that it had failed to report a large number of conversion, fabrication and irradiation activities involving nuclear material, including the separation of a small amount of plutonium," the report said. (AGENCIES) |
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