Poland continues to improve its national potential to prevent smuggling and interdict illegal shipments.

They are designed to interdict a zone with concentrations of armoured vehicles and to neutralize light vehicles.

This activity ensured that effective measures were in place to detect and interdict incidents of theft, illicit possession and illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive materials.

During the height of the Sunni insurrection, US forces devoted considerable efforts to closing borders and otherwise seeking to monitor and interdict elicit money flows from extremist groups in Sunni states to Iraq.

Although we welcome legitimate efforts to interdict illicit trade and the movement of terrorists and their assets, the severity of that effort clearly illustrates an ulterior motive on the part of the Syrians.

But the West must do more to interdict the flow of drug money and the provision of chemicals for cocaine processing. More efforts along the lines of the EU s Peace Laboratories are needed to stabilize conflict zones.

We therefore call upon the IAEA and the international community to rise to the challenge to effectively control and secure nuclear material and nuclear facilities globally, and to offer technical training to the developing countries to detect and interdict radioactive sources at their borders.