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Owing to Libya's relatively low level of technical development, these efforts focused on foreign suppliers. In 1970, for example, Libya reportedly made an unsuccessful attempt to purchase nuclear weapons from China.[7] And in 1978, Libyan agents allegedly tried to buy nuclear weapons from India.[8] There are ... many reports of nuclear dealings during the 1970s between Libya and Pakistan. These allegedly involved Libyan assistance to Pakistan in acquiring access to uranium ore concentrate from neighboring Niger in return for Pakistani nuclear assistance to Libya.[9] Whether these dealings laid the basis for later Libyan-Pakistani nuclear cooperation remains unclear.
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Just four countries -- Indonesia, Libya, Qatar and Venezuela -- reduced production in December. But their combined cuts totaled only 60,000 b/d, a volume dwarfed by the 290,000 b/d of increases from five countries -- Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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Evidence released by the IAEA in 2004 suggests that during the 1970s and 1980s, Libya decided to pursue both the uranium- and plutonium-based pathways to nuclear weapons. Steps were taken in the 1970s to gain access to uranium ore, uranium conversion facilities, and enrichment technologies that together would have allowed Libya to produce weapons-grade uranium. This activity was conducted covertly and in violation of IAEA safeguards. Libya pursued foreign supplies of uranium ore (UOC), for example. Reports indicate that during the 1970s, Libya imported 1,200 tons of uranium ore concentrate from French-controlled mines in Niger without declaring it to the IAEA, as required by the NPT.[10] Libya admitted to the IAEA in 2004 that it had actually imported 2,263 metric tons of uranium ore concentrate from 1978 to 1981, but only declared the import of 1,000 metric tons.[11] The remaining 1,263 metric tons were ... not subject to IAEA safeguards and could be used in covert nuclear activities.
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