J'lem defeats IAEA resolution targeting Israel Arab-backed mea...

J'lem defeats IAEA resolution targeting Israel

Arab-backed measure calling for Israel to accede to Nuclear Proliferation Treaty narrowly defeated at meeting of UN watchdog; FM: Important victory for the moral position against an extreme and hypocritical one.

After weeks of intense lobbying efforts, Israel succeeded in defeating a resolution put forward at the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna calling for Israel to accede to the Non Proliferation Treaty and place its nuclear facilities under IAEA guidelines.

The resolution put forward by the Arab group and viewed in Jerusalem as another example of anti-Israeli resolutions tabled regularly in international forums, was defeated by a vote of 51-46.

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Israel rejects offer to join UN atomic agency It is against Israel's interest...

Israel rejects offer to join UN atomic agency

It is against Israel's interests to join a global anti-nuclear arms treaty and the UN atomic watchdog is overstepping its mandate in demanding it to do so, its nuclear chief said on Tuesday.

Arab states have tabled a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency annual conference in Vienna for Israel to fore swear nuclear weapons and sign up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

"Israel is not the only member state ... that has exercised its sovereign right not to accede to the NPT due to its national security considerations," Israel's Atomic Energy Commission chief Shaul Chorev said.

"Yet Israel is the only state that has been singled out, and is called upon to take a decision which is against its best national interests," he told the conference.

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Israel won't move on U.N. call for nuclear-free zone Israel has no plan to ...

Israel won't move on U.N. call for nuclear-free zone

Israel has no plan to review its nuclear policies, a government official said on Friday, playing down efforts by world powers at a U.N. non-proliferation conference to promote a Middle East free of atomic arms.

Hoping to win Arab backing for sanctions against Iran, the United States and other permanent U.N. Security Council members on Wednesday called for ways to be found to implement a 1995 initiative that would guarantee nuclear disarmament in a region where Israel is widely assumed to have the only such weapons.

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Israel under pressure to join NPT Nearly 190 nations have agreed to a declar...

Israel under pressure to join NPT

Nearly 190 nations have agreed to a declaration that pressures Israel to join the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and calls for a 2012 conference on nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/2010528182649887512.html

Israeli PM rejects "flawed" U.N. nuclear declaration

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a U.N. declaration that urged his country to put its nuclear facilities under U.N. safeguards, saying it singled out Israel while letting Iran off the hook.

In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast on Sunday night, Netanyahu said he did not think Israel would participate the U.N. resolution's implementation.

Israel is presumed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal but neither confirms nor denies it. It is the only Middle East state that has not signed the NPT and, like India and Pakistan, which have exploded nuclear devices, did not participate in a month-long U.N. meeting in New York to review the NPT.

The Obama administration opposed efforts to single out Israel and said it would not put the Jewish state under any pressure to do anything that would undermine its security. The White House deplored the document's failure to mention Iran.

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'US in favor of Israel nuclear ambiguity' Amid international calls on Israel ...

'US in favor of Israel nuclear ambiguity'

Amid international calls on Israel to come clean about its nuclear activities, the Israeli defense minister says the US has no objection to Tel Aviv's policy of ambiguity over its program.

Under the nuclear ambiguity policy, which Tel Aviv has successfully maintained for years with Washington's support, Israel neither confirms nor denies the possession of nuclear weapons.

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