The UN nuclear agency has approved technical aid for Syria
despite suspicions that the country had a secret atomic program that could be used to make weapons.
The decision appeared to be a defeat
for the US and its allies. They called for rejection of the package meant to help Syria set up a power-producing reactor.
Western critics expressed their concerns about the deal in the text that approved it after three days of deadlock.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is probing allegations that Syria had a covert program. It has said that intelligence reports indicate that a site bombed by Israel
last year was a nuclear reactor.
Washington says the facility was almost completed and ready to produce plutonium, a fissile warhead component.
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