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ElBaradei to Discuss Nonproliferation With Bush
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei is expected to discuss nuclear nonproliferation measures with President George W. Bush during a four-day trip to the United States that began yesterday, according to Agence France-Presse (see GSN, March 12). “What I’m really looking at here is the big picture. The important thing is to try to see how we can move the agenda of the nonproliferation regime forward,” ElBaradei said (Michael Adler, Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, March 15). During a White House-requested meeting scheduled for Thursday, ElBaradei and Bush are expected to discuss potential nonproliferation measures, including criminalizing the sale of nuclear technology, increasing the agency’s ability to monitor proliferation and reducing access to uranium enrichment technology, according to U.S. officials and diplomats in Vienna. Bush and ElBaradei are also expected to discuss Iran’s decision Saturday to halt IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities, the Los Angeles Times reported. ElBaradei is also expected to meet with CIA Director George Tenet to discuss new measures to share proliferation-related intelligence, according to the Times. Bush is eager to meet with ElBaradei, despite their previous disagreements over prewar Iraq’s nuclear weapons program and on what measures to take regarding Iran’s nuclear efforts, a senior U.S. official said. “He’s obviously not someone we’ve agreed with on everything going down the road,” the U.S. official said of ElBaradei. “But he’s a serious guy, and somebody that we have worked with and look forward to working with,” the official added (Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times, March 15).
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