Antinuclear

Arab states concerned that Israel has not signed Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty

they directed their focus to Israel, whose “unacknowledged” nuclear arsenal gets a free pass thanks to  US protection in IAEA and the UN Security Council..

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commented over the weekend that more progress must be made world-wide in nuclear disarmament.

Nuclear conference: Arab states say Israel destabilizes the region, Palestine Note 4 May 2010, “………..Jordan’s foreign minister says the world must work harder for a “nuclear-free” Middle East, the Associate Press reports from the second day of the UN nuclear summit.

Arab countries at the conference echoed the US’ call to rid the region of nuclear weapons, but they directed their focus to Israel, whose “unacknowledged” nuclear arsenal gets a free pass thanks to  US protection in IAEA and the UN Security Council..

…Today Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said Israel’s refusal to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and in turn allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor its nuclear program “renders the NPT a source of instability in the Middle East,” AP says.

Egypt proposed the UN conference develop a plan to hone in on stabilizing nuclear power in the Middle East.  The US “cautiously supported” the proposal but insisted that such an initiative wait for more progress in the MidEast peace process……
The low-level diplomats representing the nuclear states at the meeting left when Ahmadinejad said nuclear states are a threat to those without nuclear weapons….
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commented over the weekend that more progress must be made world-wide in nuclear disarmament.

Nuclear conference: Arab states say Israel destabilizes the region; Ahmadinejad calls Clinton ‘an enemy of Iran’ – News

May 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons