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IAEA calls on Israel to sign Non-Proliferation Treaty
2009-09-21
For the first time in 18 years, Israel, the United States and the Western powers were unsuccessful at preventing passage of a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The resolution, passed at the end of the annual general assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on Thursday, also demands that Israel open its nuclear reactor in Dimona to international inspectors.
More useless posturing by a group that is second only to the World Court in useless posturing.
The resolution was passed by a majority of 49 countries, among them the members of the Arab League and the bloc of developing nations; against 45 Western countries, including the European Union and the United States, and 16 abstentions.

The non-binding resolution mentions "Israeli nuclear capabilities."

In the past, the United States and other Western countries were able to persuade the developing countries not to join the resolution, thus thwarting its passage.

Another resolution, passed with the agreement of Israel and Egypt, calls for nuclear disarmament in the Middle East, and for dialogue among all nations in the region to this end.

Israel's representative at the conference, deputy chief of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, David Danieli, said the resolution was counterproductive, stressing that Middle Eastern countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria, and Iraq in the past, had contravened the IAEA's resolutions despite being signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. He said these countries were planning to develop or had already developed nuclear weapons.

Israel did, however, manage to thwart a proposal by Iran to prohibit any member of the IAEA from attacking the nuclear facilities of another member.
A little too transparent, were they ...
Posted by:Steve White

#2  Hey, G(r)om, I think you're being unfair here, re the UN and stuff. They paid for it, it's their. Well, it's not really tfrue, the West, and the USA foremost, pay for it. But it's their nonetheless.

I wonder if the people who set the UN back in the halcyon days thought it was going to end up like this? Oh, the irony.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-09-21 05:06  

#1  What would ROPers do without their "International" enablers?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-09-21 03:56  

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