By Lisa Bryant
Paris
27 November 2008
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency expressed frustration Thursday that neither Iran nor Syria been completely transparent about their alleged nuclear activities. For VOA, Lisa Bryant has more on the agency’s findings from Paris.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is holding a two-day meeting to examine reports on the [...]

VIENNA (Reuters) – A bid by Syria for aid in planning a nuclear power plant poses no proliferation risk and a Western move to block the project could discredit the U.N. nuclear watchdog, its chief said in remarks released on Tuesday.
Major Western nations want the project shelved because Syria is under International Atomic Energy Agency [...]

ALGIERS (AFP) – Algeria and Argentina signed an agreement Monday to boost cooperation over civil nuclear energy as part of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner’s tour of northern Africa.
The energy deal was signed by Algerian Energy and Mining Minister Chakib Khelil and Argentina’s Minister for Federal Planning Julio de Vido.
Meanwhile, Kirchner met with Algerian President Abdelaziz [...]

Calcutta News.Net
Monday 17th November, 2008 (IANS)
India and Russia are set to expand their nuclear cooperation as they deepen their ties in a changed international context, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Monday.
“We hope to expand civil nuclear cooperation. All the formalities are done,” Menon told diplomats and strategic experts here ahead of Russian President Dmitry [...]

Patrick Ugeh
Abuja
Stakeholders, including a representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ian Facer, yesterday urged greater coordination among those involved in Nigeria’s quest to achieve its dream of generating power through nuclear energy.
A communique issued at the close of the three-day review workshop/expert mission to support introduction of nuclear power in Nigeria, said this [...]

Leon Usigbe
The Federal Government is committed to the development of safe nuclear energy and has therefore assured on the provision of necessary resources to create the appropriate technological, economic and social conditions that would sustain it.
According to the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs. Grace Ekpiwhre who spoke at the opening of a “National Workshop [...]

* Delegate says IAEA should ensure equitable access to nuclear materials, technology and equipment for peaceful purposes
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Tuesday called for evolving a universal and non-discriminatory criterion that would ensure every state’s right to peaceful nuclear energy use to meet the growing worldwide energy demand.
“In this regard, principles should be placed above expediency [...]

More than 50 countries have alerted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that they are considering utilizing nuclear power, the head of the United Nations body said today.
Mohamed ElBaradei told a meeting in Paris of the 50th anniversary of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that a [...]

NEW DELHI: In an attempt to counter criticism from the BJP and the Left, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said that “interlocking provi
sions’’ in the nuclear deal and related agreements ensured fuel supply guarantees, right to reprocess and build a strategic fuel supply for the civilian nuclear programme.
Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, [...]

By Emeka Madunagu
The International Atomic Energy Agency has warned Nigeria and 49 other countries seeking to develop nuclear facilities against rushing into it.
The IAEA’s Director-General, Mohamed ElBaradei, told a meeting of the 50th anniversary of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday in Paris, France, that there was [...]