Syria's UN envoy said Damascus was "not afraid" to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog, which pledged on Friday to look into whether Syria secretly built an atomic reactor with North Korean help. "We have close co-operation with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)," Bashar Ja'afari told reporters who asked if his country would cooperate with the probe.
"Syria has nothing to hide. The IAEA chief (Mohamed ElBaradei) is there to witness that what we are saying is absolutely true. So we are not afraid of this co-operation," he said, noting that his country had joined the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970.
The United States revealed intelligence material on Thursday about the alleged Syrian atomic plant, saying it was "nearing operational capability" a month before Israeli warplanes bombed it on September 6.
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