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Newsflash: UN Resolution APPROVED against Israel’s nuclear..

Postby Get Real! » Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:21 am

At long last... :D

The latest United Nations nuclear assembly approved a resolution urging Israel to put all its atomic sites under the world body's inspection and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty…


199 United Nations General Assembly Resolutions 55-30- Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East

“Noting that one hundred and sixty States have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including a number of States in the region,

1. Welcomes the conclusions on the Middle East of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;

2. Reaffirms the importance of Israel's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, in realizing the goal of universal adherence to the Treaty in the Middle East;

3. Calls upon that State to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons without further delay and not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, and to renounce possession of nuclear weapons, and to place all its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full-scope International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all States of the region and as a step towards enhancing peace and security;

4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution;

5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled "The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East"


http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign%20Rel ... utions%205

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Postby Get Real! » Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:02 am

Israel ‘Deplores’ IAEA Call to Join NPT

“The Israeli government has officially said that it “deplores” the vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member states to call on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and submit their nuclear facilities to the same oversight as the rest of the world does.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/18/isra ... -join-npt/
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Postby yialousa1971 » Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:44 am

Don't expect the UN to do anything about it thou. Lots of talk no action.
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