Syria headed to the Security Council?

Is the question of Syria’s nuclear program headed to the UN Security Council? Over at Arms Control Wonk, Joshua Pollack predicts that it is: After a few years of activity, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s probe of Syria’s nuclear activities is sputtering to a halt. To their credit, even after the being denied access to ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Is the question of Syria's nuclear program headed to the UN Security Council? Over at Arms Control Wonk, Joshua Pollack predicts that it is:

Is the question of Syria’s nuclear program headed to the UN Security Council? Over at Arms Control Wonk, Joshua Pollack predicts that it is:

After a few years of activity, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s probe of Syria’s nuclear activities is sputtering to a halt. To their credit, even after the being denied access to sites apparently linked to the concealed reactor destroyed by the Israeli Air Force – and having had very little access to the former reactor site itself – safeguards inspectors have still managed to unearth undeclared nuclear imports and experiments. But that run of success now appears to have ended.

With the IAEA running out of tools, Pollak believes that there’s little the agency can do but report noncompliance to the Council. And if that happens this year, Lebanon (which holds a nonpermament Council seat) might be in the awkward position of having to consider measures against Damascus.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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