IAEA Mission Visits Abkhazia

A group of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Abkhazia on September 7 to inspect the safety and conditions of the facilities in which radioactive substances are stored in the breakaway region, the Abkhaz news agency Apsnypress reported.
 
IAEA experts have already held talks with Vice-Premier of breakaway Abkhazia Leonid Lakerbaia and Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba. Talks with Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh are also planned.
 
Reuters reported earlier in June that the IAEA wanted to find any weapons-grade plutonium or highly enriched uranium that may have gone missing from a nuclear institute in Abkhazia. There are concerns that some 9 kg of plutonium may be missing, according to this report. But the authorities in the unrecognized republic denied this information.

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