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consultations on the amendment of SQPs and the conclusion and entry into
force of safeguards agreements and APs were held throughout the year with
representatives of member and non-member States in Berlin, Geneva, New
York and Vienna, and also during training events organized in Vienna and
elsewhere by the Secretariat.
Verification activities
The report of the Director General to the IAEA Board of Governors and
the fifty-fifth IAEA General Conference in September entitled “Application
of Safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” 55 provided a
historical overview and update on developments of direct relevance to the
Agency, along with information on the nuclear programme of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea. Since December 2002, the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea had not permitted the IAEA to implement safeguards in
the State and, therefore, the IAEA could not draw any safeguards conclusion
regarding the country. 56 In addition, the report stated that the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea had not implemented those measures that were
binding upon it pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions 1718
(2006) and 1874 (2009).
In September, the IAEA General Conference adopted a resolution57 that, inter alia, expressed concern regarding the claimed uranium enrichment
programme and light water reactor construction of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea, and which strongly urged the country not to conduct any
further nuclear tests and to fully comply with all its obligations under United
Nations Security Council resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009) and other
relevant resolutions. It also called upon the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea to, inter alia, come into full compliance with the NPT and to cooperate
promptly with the IAEA in the full and effective implementation of Agency
comprehensive safeguards.
In 2011, the Director General submitted four reports58 to the Board
of Governors on the implementation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s NPT
Safeguards Agreement and relevant United Nations Security Council
resolutions. In November, the IAEA Director General reported to the Board
55 IAEA, document GOV/2011/53-GC(55)/24. Available from http://www.iaea.org/About/
Policy/GC/GC55/GC55Documents/English/gc55-24_en.pdf (accessed 9 May 2012).
56 For more information, see Safeguards Statement for 2011, Background to Safeguards
Statement and Executive Summary of the Safeguards Implementation Report. Available
from http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Reports/ (accessed 9 May 2012).
57 IAEA, “Implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement between the Agency and the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, document GC(55)/RES/13. Available from
http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/GC/GC55/GC55Resolutions/English/gc55res-13_en.pdf
(accessed 9 May 2012).
58 IAEA, “IAEA and Iran: IAEA Reports–2011”. Available from http://www.iaea.org/
newscenter/focus/iaeairan/iaea_reports.shtml (accessed 9 May 2012).