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Russia calls for experts to examine Iraqi nuclear parts
Moscow, June 26: Russia today called for international experts to examine parts of a gas centrifuge handed over to the US authorities by a former top Iraqi nuclear scientist.
Moscow, June 26: Russia today called for
international experts to examine parts of a gas centrifuge handed over to the US authorities by a former top Iraqi
nuclear scientist.
"According to international media reports, some pieces of a centrifuge have been found in Iraq. Such discoveries should
be submitted to international expertise and the UN Security
Council should be informed," said foreign ministry spokesman
Alexander Yakovenko.
US media reported yesterday that the former Iraqi nuclear
scientist had turned over to us authorities parts of a gas
centrifuge and related documents that he buried in his Baghdad
garden in 1991 on the orders of Saddam Hussein.
Bureau Report