Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for his answer. In view of what he said about Australia setting the highest standards, will he now confirm that the proposed safeguards to be applied to China will not require mandatory permanent compliance with the current full scope of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, including the additional protocol, which would provide for the IAEA to nominate which sites they require to inspect and to conduct a wide range of chemical and environmental assay testing? Will the minister now confirm that that additional protocol will not apply and that mandatory permanent compliance is not going to be part of the agreement?