Russian envoy
Russia has asked the UN Security Council to look into the dangers posed by a badly-guarded stockpile of yellowcake uranium in the Libyan Desert.
have spoken with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon about the issue, and asked him to take it up with the United Nations mission in Libya,? Russia?s UN envoy, Vitaly Churkin, told ITAR-TASS news agency from New York.
?I also said we would mention the problem at Security Council consultations, and we have done so.?
There are reports allege that Al-Qaeda is interested in the Libyan yellowcakes which could be used for a potential nuclear weapon component.
Churkin also said that the head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Tarek Mitri, spoke with Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, who promised to focus on the issue.
The Russian diplomat also said that a special inter-ministerial committee was set up in Tripoli to deal with the matter.
Churkin said Russia made two specific proposals. To send the matter to the expert panel committee of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that monitors the implementation of sanctions against Libya so not to export arms; and inform Libya authorities of the concern of the Security Council of the situation.
An estimated 6,400 barrels of yellowcake uranium were discovered near the southern city of Sabha towards the end of the uprising of 2011.
The UN?s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has performed an inventory of the stock ? which is kept in an ordinary warehouse, next to an estimated 4,000 surface-to-air missiles previously procured from Russia ? and technically maintains control over it, RT reported.
Yet a report from a visiting journalist in the UK?s Times newspaper last month alleged that the stockpile was in the control of a local weapons dealer, and his men did not even guard the warehouse for fear of suffering radiation poisoning.
Russia has asked the UN Security Council to look into the dangers posed by a badly-guarded stockpile of yellowcake uranium in the Libyan Desert.
have spoken with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon about the issue, and asked him to take it up with the United Nations mission in Libya,? Russia?s UN envoy, Vitaly Churkin, told ITAR-TASS news agency from New York.
?I also said we would mention the problem at Security Council consultations, and we have done so.?
There are reports allege that Al-Qaeda is interested in the Libyan yellowcakes which could be used for a potential nuclear weapon component.
Churkin also said that the head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Tarek Mitri, spoke with Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, who promised to focus on the issue.
The Russian diplomat also said that a special inter-ministerial committee was set up in Tripoli to deal with the matter.
Churkin said Russia made two specific proposals. To send the matter to the expert panel committee of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that monitors the implementation of sanctions against Libya so not to export arms; and inform Libya authorities of the concern of the Security Council of the situation.
An estimated 6,400 barrels of yellowcake uranium were discovered near the southern city of Sabha towards the end of the uprising of 2011.
The UN?s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has performed an inventory of the stock ? which is kept in an ordinary warehouse, next to an estimated 4,000 surface-to-air missiles previously procured from Russia ? and technically maintains control over it, RT reported.
Yet a report from a visiting journalist in the UK?s Times newspaper last month alleged that the stockpile was in the control of a local weapons dealer, and his men did not even guard the warehouse for fear of suffering radiation poisoning.
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