(Bloomberg) Syria faces a referral to the UN Security Council over a site, destroyed in a 2007 Israeli raid, that the U.S. says was a clandestine nuclear plant designed to build weapons. European nations joined the U.S. Wednesday at the International Atomic Energy Agency in seeking to report Syrian non-compliance with nuclear-safeguard agreements. There is "a history of concealment of Syria's nuclear activities," a draft resolution says. "The resulting absence of confidence that Syria's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes" has "given rise to concerns regarding the maintenance of international peace and security." A Security Council referral may result in UN-imposed sanctions on Syria.
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