Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Friday his country has ratified an international agreement to substantially toughen security of nuclear materials.
He said the instrument of ratification was lodged with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna Thursday.
"Australia has adopted the strongest international standards for the security of nuclear material and facilities by ratifying an amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material," he said in a statement.
The convention sets out arrangements and standards for the security of nuclear material in international transport. It substantially strengthens security requirements for nuclear material and extended existing provisions of the convention to cover nuclear facilities and nuclear material in domestic use, storage and transport.
"Nations which are party to the convention must apply thorough and systematic measures to protect their domestic nuclear activities against criminal or terrorist attack and cooperate to locate and recover stolen or smuggled nuclear material, as well as mitigate any radiological consequences of sabotage," Smith said.
Source:Xinhua
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