Mr. Chen said any inspection agreement should be reciprocal.
North Korea faced worldwide condemnation and a possible war with the United States after violating its inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran says the traces arrived on contaminated imports; the other explanation is that Iran has been secretly enriching uranium in violation of its inspection agreement with the agency.
That alarms Argentina, which like Brazil had a nascent nuclear programme until the two ditched their respective military regimes, and signed a mutual inspection agreement in 1991.Towards a nuclear-safer worldSo, is it time to tear up the NPT and start again?
According to an account by the Foreign Affairs and Trade Department, Australia will rely on China's inspections agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear monitoring arm of the United Nations, to ensure that the Australian uranium is used only for nuclear power reactors.
However, even properties outside these areas may still be subject to another inspection because of agreements with the investors who bought closed loans, noted Joshua Weinberg, the senior vice president for compliance of First Choice.
For many years, Mr. Racicot said, state inspections included confidentiality agreements that no information could be made public.
Also, to enforce these nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements, extensive inspection and verification mechanisms were developed.
"Every state has a right to work with us on the timing of inspections, and even our agreements allow for holidays and that sort of thing," he said.
