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Oct 25, 2009, 6:58:27 AM10/25/09

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UN watches worldwide issues for everyone's sake. That,s why they
ensure not only the safety of a country, but all the countries which
sums up the said organization. In short- whole world.
Here is a sample of UN action :

U.N. experts in Iran to inspect new nuclear site

Reuters

By Hossein Jaseb Hossein Jaseb

TEHRAN (Reuters) – U.N. inspectors have arrived in Iran to examine a
nuclear site that has heightened Western fears of a covert program to
develop atomic bombs, an accusation the Islamic Republic rejects.

"They arrived late last night for routine inspections," Ali
Shirzadian, a spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, told
Reuters on Sunday. He gave no further details.

The U.N. experts were due to inspect Iran's second enrichment plant,
under construction 160 km (100 miles) south of Tehran.

Iran hid the site for three years until last month, fanning Western
suspicions.

Refined uranium can be used to fuel nuclear power plants and also to
provide material for bombs if enriched further.

Iran, which says it wants only peaceful nuclear energy, agreed to open
the new site to monitoring at talks with six world powers held in
Geneva on October 1.

But a second understanding struck in Geneva stumbled on Friday when
Iran cast doubt on a plan to send abroad much of its enriched uranium
reserve for processing into special fuel for nuclear medicine in Iran.

World powers regard the two steps as litmus tests of Iran's stated
intent to use enriched uranium only for civilian purposes and a basis
for follow-up talks on curbing enrichment itself, which would bring
Iran trade and technology rewards in return.

"MISTRUST"

Influential Iranian lawmakers have criticized the U.N.-drafted nuclear
fuel agreement, in comments echoed by an Iranian diplomat on Sunday.

Abolfazl Zorehvand, a former ambassador to Italy, said the plan
amounted to a kind of suspension of Iran's enrichment work -- a demand
the Islamic state has repeatedly rejected.

"If we want to enrich this amount again it would take at least 18
months. During these 18 months they will have time to pressure Iran
again and push us in the direction they want to," the official IRNA
news agency quoted Zorehvand as saying.

"These signals from the West create mistrust," he said.

Iran has said the centrifuge plant being built in a military compound
buried inside a mountain near the Shi'ite holy city of Qom will refine
uranium only for civilian nuclear energy.

Western diplomats and analysts say the site's capacity appears too
small to fuel a nuclear power station but enough to yield fissile
material for one or two nuclear warheads a year.

The four-strong team from the International Atomic Energy Agency's
safeguards division, led by Herman Nackaerts, who oversees the Middle
East region including Iran, declined comment to reporters in Vienna
before boarding their flight.

Their stay in Iran is likely to last several days.

The inspectors intend to compare engineering designs to be provided by
Iran with the actual facility, interview employees and take
environmental samples to verify the site has no illicit military
dimension.
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Hope they would continue global inspections to maintain peace. Right?