Hitherto NSG rules barred nuclear commerce with any country that had not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) or had not put all its nuclear industry under safeguards operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear guardian.
Obama pushed at a joint news conference for continued diplomatic efforts, including negotiations and sanctions, intended to get Iran to comply with international safeguards against nuclear arms.
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You see you only have to declare within the Safeguards Agreement a nuclear facility, ok, this is an important thing, you have to underline it, that you only declare a nuclear facility a hundred and eighty days before you introduce the nuclear material into that.
This agreement will encourage the development of nuclear expertise and professionals in Chile and advance bilateral cooperation on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards in line with the highest international standards.
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The risk of accidents, misjudgments or unauthorised launches, they argued, was growing more acute in a world of rivalries between relatively new nuclear states that lacked the security safeguards developed over many years by America and the Soviet Union.
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Meanwhile 30 countries (including Myanmar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, all with nuclear interest) still do not have even the weaker safeguards system required by the NPT.
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Last week, the chief executive of EDF, Vincent de Rivaz, told MPs that his company needed safeguards from the government that the finances of future nuclear deals would be "fair".
The Bush administration says India's nuclear industry, though not its atomic weapons program, will be under tighter safeguards.
She said any agreement to sell uranium to India would include strict safeguards to ensure it would only be used for civilian purposes, and not end up in nuclear weapons.
India now needs to negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and win the consensus of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group so that the Bush administration can present the deal to Congress for a final vote before the end of 2007.
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