Monday, June 20, 2005

"IAEA team to avoid Georgia rebel zone due to security"

By Louis Charbonneau

VIENNA, June 17 (Reuters)

"Poor security will stop U.N. nuclear experts visiting Georgia's rebel region Abkhazia to look for possibly missing plutonium on a visit to the former Soviet republic, the U.N. body's chief said on Friday.

"We are going to Georgia. We are not going to Abkhazia this time, because Abkhazia has a lot of difficulty getting access," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters."

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