Libya will now be only "part of our routine verification, which is good so at least Libya is off our agenda," International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters at a meeting of the IAEA's board of governors.

He said he hoped the same could happen for Iran, which the IAEA is currently investigating on US charges that Tehran is secretly developing nuclear weapons.

The United States has called on Iran to be as forthcoming about its nuclear program as Libya has been.

The IAEA said in a report in August that "good cooperation" from Libya "has enabled the agency to build an understanding of Libya's previously undeclared nuclear program."

The IAEA, the UN organization that verifies adherence to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has been overseeing Libya's disarmament, which Tripoli agreed to last December 19 with the United States and Britain.

The IAEA will still be looking into what a spokesman called "critical questions" about whether Libya had made copies of nuclear weapons designs it had obtained through the black market run by disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

The IAEA is trying to piece together how Khan's network was run and who else got nuclear technology from it. Khan has reportedly confessed to filtering such technology to Iran and North Korea.

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