June 10, 2022

"IAEA Board of Governors, June 2022: Adoption of the agenda

AUKUS Statement as delivered by Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to IAEA and CTBTO, Corinne Kitsell OBE

Thank you Chair,

I take the floor on behalf of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Chair,

Once again, there are genuinely urgent, pressing issues demanding this Board’s undivided attention. Australia, the UK and the US have made, and continue to make, our position very clear. We believe an agenda item on AUKUS at this time is inappropriate,
premature and unnecessary. We are disappointed to see an AUKUS agenda item added to the Board’s agenda again.

Chair,

AUKUS partners are engaged in an open and transparent consultation process with the IAEA with regard to Australia’s safeguards obligations related to Australia’s acquisition of conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines. We remain fully
committed to transparency.
Consistent with that commitment, at the March 2022 Board meeting, we provided an AUKUS update under the ‘Any Other Business’ agenda item. At this meeting, we will again update the Board under Any Other Business. We also circulated a non-paper to all
Member States in advance of this meeting – as we have done at the March 2022 and November 2021 Board meetings."

https://vienna.usmission.gov/aukus-statements/

What if other nations such as Iran and its partners are submitting the same appeal related to Iran's acquisition of conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines?

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