The UN nuclear agency has said that Syria is to allow inspectors to visit the country to investigate allegations that it was building a nuclear reactor.The International Atomic Energy Agency says its inspectors are due in Syria between the 22 and 24 June.
The alleged nuclear site was bombed by Israeli jets in September 2007.
In April, the United States accused North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that "was not intended for peaceful purposes".
Syria has repeatedly denied it has any nuclear weapons programme, or any such agreement with North Korea.
Officials have said the site that was bombed by Israel unused military facility under construction. Building on the site had stopped some time before the air strike, the Syrians said.
"I look forward to Syria's full co-operation in this matter," IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei told the agency's 35-nation board of governors on Monday.
In April this year, Mr ElBaradei criticised both what he saw as a US delay in releasing information on the Syrian site and Israel's bombing of the site before the IAEA could inspect it.
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