U.N. Team Demands New List Of Iraqi Nuclear Research Sites
A United Nations inspection team disclosed here Saturday night that it has delivered a new demand for a complete list of facilities doing research on uranium enrichment and nuclear energy.
The inspection team, which visited nuclear facilities in Mosul in northern Iraq and in the Baghdad area in the past week, has asked for the most complete listing yet of Iraq’s nuclear efforts.
“We have asked for a list of facilities in which research and development of enrichment technology has been carried on,” said Dmitri Perricos, team leader of the third U.N. inspection team to visit Iraq.
The U.N. team had delivered its request to the Iraqi government orally last Tuesday and followed up with a written demand on Thursday. Iraq had not responded as of Saturday, when the U.N. team made its new request public, asking for a reply by tonight.
Sources close to the U.N. inspection team here described the nuclear equipment they had seen in the past week as “very sophisticated, very advanced.”
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