ＥＥＥ会議（パキスタンによる核・原子力技術不正輸出問題）...........................................031222


パキスタンが北朝鮮等に対して不正の核・原子力技術（とくに遠心分離式ウラン
濃縮技術）の輸出をしているとの疑惑はかなり根拠のあるもので、小生はもっと
パキスタンにプレッシャー（制裁）をかけなければいけないということをかねてから
主張していますがーー１２月９日付けEメール（Re:パキスタンと北朝鮮核問題）に
よる吉田康彦氏への小生の反論をご参照ーーまさに本日付けのNew York Times
がこうしたパキスタン問題を詳しく暴露しています。

小生は、さらに、パキスタンとリビアの関係についても大いに問題ありと考えて
おり、この点については、昨日付けのメール（リビアの大量破壊兵器廃棄と「イス
ラムの核爆弾」）において詳しく指摘したばかりです。

よって、これら２本のメール及び拙著「日本の核・アジアの核」（１９９７年刊）の
第４章と、以下のＮｅｗＹｏｒｋＴｉｍｅｓ記事を併せてお読みになると、パキスタ
ン
問題の深刻さが一層よくご理解になれると思います。　ご参考まで。
--KK

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Inquiry Suggests Pakistanis Sold Nuclear Secrets
By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: December 22, 2003

by William J. Broad, David Rohde and David E. Sanger.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 ? A lengthy investigation of the father of Pakistan's
atomic bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, by American and European intelligence
agencies and international nuclear inspectors has forced Pakistani officials
to question his aides and openly confront evidence that the country was the
source of crucial technology to enrich uranium for Iran, North Korea and
possibly other nations.

Until the past few weeks, Pakistani officials had denied evidence that the
A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories, named for the man considered a national
hero, had ever been a source of weapons technology to countries aspiring to
acquire fissile material. Now they are backing away from those denials,
while insisting that there has been no transfer of nuclear technology since
President Pervez Musharraf took power four years ago.

Dr. Khan, a metallurgist who was charged with stealing European designs for
enriching uranium a quarter century ago, has not yet been questioned.
American and European officials say he is the centerpiece of their
investigation, but that General Musharraf's government has been reluctant to
take him on because of his status and deep ties to the country's military
and intelligence services. A senior Pakistani official said in an interview
that "any individual who is found associated with anything suspicious would
be under investigation," and promised a sweeping inquiry.

Pakistan's role in providing centrifuge designs to Iran, and the possible
involvement of Dr. Khan in such a transfer, was reported Sunday by The
Washington Post. Other suspected nuclear links between Pakistan and Iran
have been reported in previous weeks by other news organizations.

An investigation conducted by The New York Times during the past two months,
in Washington, Europe and Pakistan, showed that American and European
investigators are interested in what they describe as Iran's purchase of
nuclear centrifuge designs from Pakistan 16 years ago, largely to force the
Pakistani government to face up to a pattern of clandestine sales by its
nuclear engineers and to investigate much more recent transfers.

Those include shipments in the late 1990's to facilities in North Korea that
American intelligence agencies are still trying to locate, in hopes of
gaining access to them.

New questions about Pakistan's role have also been raised by Libya's
decision on Friday to reveal and dismantle its unconventional weapons,
including centrifuges and thousands of centrifuge parts. A senior American
official said this weekend that Libya had shown visiting American and
British intelligence officials "a relatively sophisticated model of
centrifuge," which can be used to enrich uranium for bomb fuel.

A senior European diplomat with access to detailed intelligence said Sunday
that the Libyan program had "certain common elements" with the Iranian
program and with the pattern of technology leakage from Pakistan to Iran.
The C.I.A. declined to say over the weekend what country appeared to be
Libya's primary source. "It looks like an indirect transfer," said one
official. "It will take a while to trace it back."

There are also investigations under way to determine if Pakistani technology
has spread elsewhere in the Middle East and Asia, but so far the evidence
involves largely the exchange of scientists with countries including
Myanmar. There have been no confirmed reports of additional technology
transfers, intelligence officials say.

The Pakistani action to question Dr. Khan's associates was prompted by
information Iran turned over two months ago to the International Atomic
Energy Agency, under pressure to reveal the details of a long-hidden nuclear
program. But even before Iran listed its suppliers to the I.A.E.A. ? five
individuals and a number of companies from around the world ? a British
expert who accompanied agency inspectors into Iran earlier this year
identified Iranian centrifuges as being identical to the early models that
the Khan laboratories had modified from European designs. "They were
Pak-1's," said one senior official who later joined the investigation,
saying that they were transferred to Iran in 1987.


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りしますので、ご一報ください。　ここにご紹介したものの約３倍の長さです。
--KK