U.S. and Japanese officials carried out a joint inspection at the facility in the city of Kyoto where GS Yuasa makes the batteries.

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Still, the pre-buy facility must be judiciously selected and the inspection must be carefully monitored in person.

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It was for precisely this reason that the United States properly declined when Qaddafi proposed to allay our concerns about the Rabta facility by offering an on-site inspection of it.

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As for the rest, a facility can go five years without its recurring inspection, which is too long, critics said.

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An inspection of Jersey's La Moye prison has begun, eight years after the last full inspection identified 163 shortcomings at the facility.

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