IAEA Board to Vote on Syria Motion
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A U.S.-led effort to bring Syria before the U.N. Security Council for failing to declare a covert nuclear reactor and refusing to give information to the International Atomic Energy Agency is to be put to a vote.
Ministers of the IAEA's 35 governing members are to decide Thursday on whether to report Damascus for failure to cooperate as part of a regular meeting.
The push comes amid a separate effort by European nations to have the Security Council condemn the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for its deadly crackdown on protesters.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The IAEA has been frustrated in repeated attempts to follow up on evidence that Syria had nearly completed a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium, used to arm nuclear weapons. The site was destroyed by Israel in 2007.