The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday that the agency is investigating whether other countries besides Libya got hold of designs for nuclear warheads on the global atomic black market.
"We are still trying to understand the network, to see if other countries have received the (weapons-related) technology, the weapons designs," Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters after a meeting with Libya's deputy prime minister. "This is of course an important and urgent concern for us."
ElBaradei said he and the deputy Prime minister in charge of the nuclear programme, Matoug M. Matoug, agreed to strive to finish confirming the dismantling of Libya's atomic weapons programme by June.
"We agreed that we will make every effort to come to a closure on this issue hopefully by June, by our June (IAEA) Board of Governors (meeting)," he said.
Several Western diplomats in Vienna and a number of non-proliferation analysts have told Reuters they were convinced Libya got the warhead designs from the father of Pakistan's atom bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, a key figure in the global atomic black market that supplied Libya, Iran and North Korea.
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