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Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Abdullah Aldredri denied Syria's ability to produce nuclear energy. He said that "nuclear power is expensive and for the infrastructure needed, material, technical and human resources are not available in Syria."

Aldredri said that "nuclear energy issue is not raised at all in Syria, but the focus is on natural gas, oil refining and renewable energies."

The International Atomic Energy Agency recently announced that it had no information about the existence of "undeclared nuclear reactor in Syria."

In Egypt, Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif said that Egypt is capable of implementing its nuclear program for peaceful purposes, with their experience and scientific potential. This came during the inauguration of the Press Center on the World Games in Arab City Hall conference.

Dr. Hassan Younis, Minister of Electricity and Energy, completed a draft of the new law related to nuclear radiation, to include benefit from the peaceful uses of atomic energy, and noted that the bill Egypt will undertake will fulfilled its obligations towards all international treaties and conventions, regional and bilateral in various areas of the peaceful uses of atomic energy, which was ratified with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The minister said that the strategic decision of President Mubarak to call for the creation of nuclear plants to generate electricity had coincided with a technical and economic feasibility study conducted by the electricity and energy sector. Only three parallel studies are under way to select more than one location for a number of stations for the production of electricity.

Source: Syria News, Ahram