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Pakistan may provide parts for UN IAEA inquiry
 Pakistan may send centrifuge parts for tests by the UN's atomic agency to help establish whether Iran has been secretly developing nuclear weapons, military ruler President Pervez Musharraf said. The move would mark a major turnaround for Islamabad, which recently insisted it would not surrender the components despite admitting that its disgraced nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, had given centrifuges to Tehran. The parts could allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna to determine whether highly enriched uranium contamination found in Iran had originated there, or if it had come from Pakistan. "We are considering it, negotiations are under way and we will see," General Musharraf told the private Aaj television channel in an interview late Thursday when asked if Pakistan would hand over the machinery for inspection.Posted by: Fred 2005-03-26 |
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