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UN. atomic reports board to Security Council

VIENNA : The U.N. nuclear watchdog board reported Syria to the Security Council for covert atomic work, diplomats said
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With 17 votes in favour and 6 against, the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution rebuking the Arab state for its three years of stonewalling of an IAEA probe into a desert site bombed by Israel in 2007.

Russia and China voted against. Overall there were 11 abstentions and one country was absent, diplomats said.

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