"US wants Israel, India in nuclear pact" by Louis Charbonneau, Reuters | May 6, 2009
UNITED NATIONS - 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 US official said yesterday.
Yeah, OUR FRIENDS are OUTLAWS while IRAN has SIGNED!!!
How's that for DOUBLE-STANDARD INSANITY, 'eh?
Oh, btw, IRAN is NOT BUILDING a BOMB!!!!
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 US-India civilian nuclear deal, which developing nations have complained rewards New Delhi for staying outside the treaty.
Yeah, the HYPOCRISY is EVIDENT to all!!!
"Universal adherence to the [treaty] 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.
Of course, one is thrown in there even though we have no intention of pressing them.
Btw, WHEN we gonna GET RID OF OURS like WE AGREED TO -- and NOT MAKE MORE or UPGRADE -- although maybe I would prefer they did not.
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 it has what arms control experts assume to be a sizable atomic arsenal.
That they are BLACKMAILING the WORLD with!!!
The administration of President Obama was encouraging all holdouts to join the treaty, she said. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have never signed the treaty. North Korea withdrew from it in 2003 and tested a nuclear device in 2006....
Delegates from poor nations complain that the endorsement was tantamount to rewarding India for remaining outside the treaty and secretly developing nuclear weapons. In contrast, they say, developing states are denied access to sensitive technology because they are often deemed proliferation risks.
And no repercussions for Israel's secret development.
No inspections, no sanctions, nothing.
Gottemoeller defended the agreement. "India is coming closer to the non-proliferation regime," she said. She cited India's willingness to work with Washington in pushing for an international treaty that would prohibit the further production of bomb-grade nuclear material and by improving its nuclear export controls.
That's why the U.S. has no credibility on this issue (or any other) these days.
We don't honor agreements!
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali Hosseini Monday railed against the United States and what he said was its continued nuclear support for the "Zionist regime" [Israel]. Western diplomats called this an attempt to divert attention away from its own nuclear program.
Same could be said of Israel -- especially since Zionists control the information flow of the MSM!
In failing to mention Iran even once in her speech, Gottemoeller broke from a tradition established by the administration of former President George W. Bush, which had used treaty meetings to criticize Iran and North Korea.
Gottemoeller said that Iran came up indirectly in her statement when she spoke of the need for "consequences for those breaking the rules or withdrawing from the treaty."
START with ISRAEL, 'kay?!!!!!
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