U.S. Wants Israel, India In Anti-Nuclear Arms Treaty

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

Tue May 5, 2009 8:50pm BST

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel should join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the global pact meant to limit the spread of atomic weapons, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.

Speaking on the second day of a two-week meeting of the 189 signatories of the pact, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller also defended a U.S.-India civilian nuclear deal, which developing nations have complained rewards New Delhi for staying outside the NPT.

"Universal adherence to the NPT itself, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea ... remains a fundamental objective of the United States," Gottemoeller told the meeting, which hopes to agree on an agenda and plan to overhaul the treaty at a review conference next year.

Speaking to reporters later, she declined to say whether Washington would take any new steps to press Israel to join the treaty and give up any nuclear weapons it has. Israel neither confirms nor denies whether it has what arms control experts assume to be a sizable atomic arsenal.

The administration of President Barack Obama was encouraging all holdouts to join the treaty, she said.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE5445VQ20090505

[iandhr]

1. Damn

I was hoping that India might get rid of Pakistan for us

I sorry thats really bad taste I of corse don't mean it

[PDJane]

2. About damn time.......

But Israel is unlikely to comply without a great deal of pressure.

I find it interesting that Israel wants to keep Iran from having a peaceful nuclear programme. It seems odd that they don't seem to realize it won't take nuclear weapons to destroy them or to blanket the area with fallout. All it takes is a well-aimed rocket...and their own nuclear stockpile would do the job quite nicely.

[Jim Sagle]

3. BS.

[Deja Q]

4. Bush gave them weapons, therefore they NEED to be put into the Treaty.

Pakistan is a problem, but there are many problems and keeping them all in a treaty will add the worry of REPERCUSSIONS if any of them dares to act like an asshole and launch a nuke.

[InfiniteThoughts]

5. not going to happen ...

The NPT regime only accepts 5 nuclear powers - US, UK, France, China & Russia. While India is all for nuclear non-proliferation, it will never accept a deal where it isn't recognized as a nuclear power. If the NPT is modified to include India as a nuclear power, there is a possibility that India will sign.

[Vidar]

6. Dream on.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. "U.S. Wants " . . . who the fuck cares what the U.S. Wants anymore?

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OH YEAH right - I got it!!!!

The US

(sigh)

[SpartanDem]

8. Asking them to join is a bad thing?