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Queen Noor of Jordan urges USA to reduce nuclear weapons stockpile

In Yahoo News interview, Queen Noor presses U.S. to reduce nuclear stockpile Yahoo News, 7 March 13, By Beth Fouhy | The Ticket  Insisting “every nuclear weapon is a catastrophe waiting to happen,” Queen Noor of Jordan told Yahoo News on Tuesday that President Barack Obama must make good on a pledge he made in Prague in April 2009 to reduce the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The queen said it was incumbent on the United States to work in concert with Russia to reduce both countries’ nuclear arsenals in a process that could then coax other nuclear states to begin to disarm as well.

“If we do not seize this moment it may be impossible to rein in the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world,” Queen Noor said in an exclusive interview.

Queen Noor is the widow of King Hussein, who ruled Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999, and the leader of Global Zero, an international organization working to eradicate nuclear weapons around the world.

[Mobile users: Tap here to watch the video of Beth Fouhy’s interview with Queen Noor]

In the interview, the queen acknowledged that the nuclear ambitions of rogue states like North Korea and Iran complicated Global Zero’s mission. But she said she was “profoundly concerned” at the prospect of the U.S. taking military action to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. “There are many in Israel and in the U.S. and in our region who consider it would be impossible to effectively deal with another country’s nuclear program through military strikes,” Queen Noor said.

Obama has refused to rule out military action to stop Iran’s nuclear capability even as the U.S. has imposed crippling sanctions and other efforts to pressure Iran to end its ambitions. ….. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/yahoo-news-interview-queen-noor-presses-u-reduce-170130104–politics.html

March 6, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized