* World powers agreed wording of a rebuke to Iran
* UN nuclear agency board was set to vote Thursday
* Amendment creates “procedural chaos” – Western diplomat
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA, Sept 13 (Reuters) – South Africa proposed a
last-minute change to a U.N. nuclear agency resolution rebuking
Iran on Thursday, throwing the meeting into confusion, diplomats
said.
Six world powers put forward the draft text on Wednesday,
aiming to add diplomatic pressure on Tehran, a day after Israel
ramped up threats to attack the Islamic Republic which it
believes is seeking nuclear weapons capability.
Intended to signal big power unity and criticise Iran for
defying U.N. calls to curb its nuclear work, the full 35-nation
governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
had been expected to vote on and approve the text on Thursday.
But South Africa, like Iran a member of the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM) of mainly developing nations, proposed a change
to the board resolution agreed by the United States, Russia,
France, China, Britain and Germany.
As a result the board meeting that started at 10 a.m. (0800
GMT) was adjourned until 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) for talks on how to
proceed. “There is procedural chaos,” one Western envoy said.
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