NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT
Issue no. 113
Date: April 18, 2010
Ramallah - Palestine
NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT
Leaders of 47 countries met on April 12-13, 2010 in Washington to discuss ways and means to better prevent nuclear terrorism. The main target was to rally a broad international front against Iranian nuclear project. Yet the American move to hold a Nuclear Conference in Washington was due to pressure exerted on the US President to counter the Iranian Nuclear endeavor. But such a step cannot work without establishing a link between Iranian not yet an atomic country and Israel, already a nuclear country with a non-identified nuclear weapons arsenal. Such a political drive provides clear evidence that there is a solid link between the Nuclear Security Summit of Washington and the Middle East conflict.
Major Arab countries were pleading since decades for a Middle East nuclear free zone and that no double standard policies should be allowed in dealing with this very sensitive matter. Turkey has recently joined the fold to call for a Mediterranean zone free of weapons of mass destruction. And if Iran was the main target of the Washington Summit, why a country like Israel is excluded from the agenda? Arab countries are worried about the Iranian nuclear ambitions, yet they are more concerned about the already existing threat, although not yet identified Israeli nuclear arsenal.
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