(23 Feb 2004)
1. Exteriors of Vienna international airport
2. Check-in desk inside airport
3. IAEA team at check-in desk
4. Cutaway camera
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Melissa Flemming, IAEA spokeswoman:
"This is an important trip because Libya has come out with a huge revelation. It has come clean on its nuclear programme and we have detailed in a whole set of inspections everything that we''''ve found there. Now it''''s at a point where we have to revisit where we are and to move forward, where we go from here. One can''''t forget that because Libya did come out with all of the information on its nuclear programme as well as where it received all the items, this was a very crucial element in uncovering the nuclear black market network."
6. Cutaway cameraman
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Melissa Flemming, IAEA spokeswoman:
"Well we''''re talking about milligram (a thousandth of a gram) quantities here. So while the quantities really are miniscule, we also, at the same time, don''''t want to reduce this in its significance because there were experiments in making plutonium so again, the quantities were insignificant but the experiments were important."
8. IAEA team at airport
9. Departure board including flight to Tripoli
10. Flemming at passport control
STORYLINE:
A delegation from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), including its chief Mohamed ElBaradei, left Vienna on Sunday evening for the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
The delegation will have talks at the highest political level with Libyan officials but the IAEA would not confirm whether they would meet with President Gadafii during their two-day visit.
Libya have guaranteed full cooperation and access to their nuclear programme and facilities and the delegation is hoping to acquire more information on the nuclear black market.
The IAEA spokesperson Melissa Flemming commented on reports on Friday that Libya was able to process a small amount of plutonium in a programme for developing nuclear weapons that remained undetected for two decades with the help of supplies from the worldwide black market
Flemming said that while the quantities were minimal, the revelations were significant.
The findings were part of a 10-page report prepared by IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei ahead of a board of governors'''' meeting of the agency next month and were leaked to the media on Friday.
Libya announced in December it had engaged in researching programmes of mass destruction and promised to scrap them. While US and British intelligence had spoken of a fairly advanced programme, the IAEA initially described Libya''''s nuclear activities as at the beginning stage.
According to the report much of the activity focused on enriching uranium.
The report praised Libya for "active cooperation and openness" since going public with its programmes of mass destruction, speaking of evidence that Libya is granting "unrestricted access" to its past nuclear secrets.
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