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IAEA Chief To Visit Israel
Israel Continues To Maintain A Policy Of Nuclear Ambiguity

Apr 28, 2004 9:57 am US/Eastern

VIENNA, Austria (CBS) The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, who has been working for a Middle East that is free from nuclear weapons, is set to travel this summer to Israel, the only country in the region believed to have a stockpile of such weapons.

Israel is not a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but does belong to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which conducts regular inspections of some of Israel's nuclear facilities.

Israel maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying it has nuclear weapons. But international experts estimate the country holds at least 200 nuclear weapons.
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ElBaradei long has called for talks on eliminating weapons of mass destruction from the volatile Middle East.

In a lecture delivered earlier this month in Egypt, ElBaradei condemned "this imbalance in the region (with) Israel sitting on nuclear weapons and everybody else trying to stick to the Nonproliferation Treaty."