ElBaradei warns US against eavesdropping on IAEA

ElBaradei warns US against eavesdropping on IAEA
(AFP)

5 January 2005



VIENNA - IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei Wednesday warned the United States against spying on the UN atomic agency saying it would be a blow to “multilateralism and the United Nations system as we know it.”

US President George W. Bush’s administration has listened in on phone calls between ElBaradei and Iranian diplomats, seeking ammunition to oust him as head of the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), The Washington Post had reported in December.

The United States wants ElBaradei replaced at the crucial Vienna-based agency believing he is not being tough enough on Iran accused by Washington of hiding a covert nuclear weapons program, diplomats said.
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“If you tamper with our independence, you really tamper with the whole fabric of multilaterialism and the United Nations system as we know it,” ElBaradei said.
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him that he can not have any. Bush like hearing things.

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IAEA should monitor US and Russia mostly... but they don't.
the full system and govts are corrupted.

IAEA should monitor the use of depleted uranium and make sure no mini-nuke was, is or will be used.

IAEA has a job to do, you can control a job without spying (double or triple the teams, check every contries regardless of partnership or religion, etc...)

IAEA is not there to justify the resident policy.

You may want to check into what the reich-wing media pours into your ears. Teh US paying most of the UN bills? Look again. You might see that while yes, after 9/11 we paid those woefully overdue dues, we have once again become delinquent.

Additionally, it is more likely the trained chimp and his buddies will be destroying humanity before anyone else gets the chance so rest easy.

Julie

The neoCONimperialists spite nuclear proliferation,...hell, they are not only increasing their own but also spreading it.

As Ruler George once stated, (paraphrasing) "pluck the log out of thine own eye before attempting to pluck a sliver out of anothers"

...with people that are not always looking out for the world's best interest. They are human beings, subject to bribes, intimidation, politics, and a host of other issues."

Well, many of them are human...technically speaking.
Do you see any problem with making sure the * administration is not corrupt?