In recent months, India announced two favorable reactor park sites for U.S. firms in the states of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, and submitted its declaration of safeguarded facilities to the IAEA.
Iran's declaration of this facility to the IAEA, which predates Obama's announcement by several days, is probably a recognition on the part of Iran that this duplication of effort is no longer representative of sound policy on its part.
As such, Iran was reverting back to its legally-binding requirements of the original safeguards agreement, which did not require early declaration of nuclear-capable facilities prior to the introduction of nuclear material.
The process of unwinding more than 50 years of North Korean open and covert developments, therefore, would need to start with the North's declaration of all its facilities and weapons, which intelligence agencies would then compare with their own lists and information.
The draft declaration of U.S. nuclear facilities -- which included locations for those that store enriched uranium and other materials for use in nuclear weapons -- was meant to be seen by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA), but it appeared for about a day on the GPO Web site.
Among the programs, notable successes have been the declaration of 40 health facilities (31 hospitals and 9 maternity units) as Baby Friendly, the drafting of a National Breast Feeding Policy and the development of a National Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes.
In its report, the agency said that Iran's belated "declaration of the new facility reduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities under construction, and gives rise to questions about whether there were any other nuclear facilities in Iran which had not been declared to the agency".
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The Syrian government has met an international deadline to submit a detailed declaration of its chemical weapons facilities and a plan to destroy the nation's toxic arsenal, the group overseeing the disarmament process said Sunday.
Iran has, in its declaration of the Qom enrichment facility to the IAEA on 21 September, described it as a "pilot plant".
The document, a draft declaration of U.S. nuclear facilities to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, contained descriptions of sensitive civilian sites, including the locations of facilities that store enriched uranium and other materials used in nuclear weapons.
