6/12/2002
International Atomic Energy Agency Meeting

The board of governors of the IAEA met in Vienna on November 28 and 29. The question of North Korea's failure to comply with its safeguard guarantees with the IAEA and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was discussed. A resolution was adopted on this.

France is one of the countries responsible for introducing the text which was adopted by consensus. We are satisfied that a very strong message was sent to North Korea by a united international community. We recall that the conclusions of the GAC on November 18 also send a strong united message.

France proposed to its partners that an extraordinary meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which is due to meet in Vienna on December 13, study ways of preventing North Korea's acquisition of nuclear technologies and equipment which could be necessary to it for a military program.