Blix slams US nuclear moves
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 (New York):
Former chief United Nations (UN) weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Monday, that because of its own nuclear moves, the administration of US President George W Bush has only 'muted' support in its campaign to condemn the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programmes.
Blix also cited positions taken by US Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton, who has been nominated as American ambassador to the UN, devaluing treaties and international law.
'There is a feeling the common edifice of the international community is being dismantled,' the Swedish arms expert said Monday.
Slow movement
Blix, now chairman of the Stockholm-based Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, spoke with reporters in the second week of a month-long conference to review the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
The conference has been stalled, without an agenda, because of a dispute over agenda language dealing with the very dissatisfaction of which Blix spoke, the complaints by some that the nuclear-weapons states are moving too slowly towards disarmament, as foreseen under the 1970 treaty.
A last-minute objection by Egypt on Friday had scuttled a seeming agreement on the agenda.
Steps towards disarmament
The Egyptians wanted language that focused more on assessing how well the nuclear powers have done in taking specific steps toward disarmament, under commitments they made in 2000 at the last of these twice-a-decade conferences.
Nuclear 'have-nots' complain the Bush administration, in particular, has acted contrary to those commitments, by rejecting the nuclear test-ban treaty, for example.
Washington, for its part, wants the conference to focus on what it alleges are Iran's plans to build nuclear arms in violation of the treaty, and on North Korea's withdrawal from the treaty and claim to have nuclear bombs.
Under the 188-nation non-proliferation pact, nations without "
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 (New York):
Former chief United Nations (UN) weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Monday, that because of its own nuclear moves, the administration of US President George W Bush has only 'muted' support in its campaign to condemn the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programmes.
Blix also cited positions taken by US Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton, who has been nominated as American ambassador to the UN, devaluing treaties and international law.
'There is a feeling the common edifice of the international community is being dismantled,' the Swedish arms expert said Monday.
Slow movement
Blix, now chairman of the Stockholm-based Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, spoke with reporters in the second week of a month-long conference to review the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
The conference has been stalled, without an agenda, because of a dispute over agenda language dealing with the very dissatisfaction of which Blix spoke, the complaints by some that the nuclear-weapons states are moving too slowly towards disarmament, as foreseen under the 1970 treaty.
A last-minute objection by Egypt on Friday had scuttled a seeming agreement on the agenda.
Steps towards disarmament
The Egyptians wanted language that focused more on assessing how well the nuclear powers have done in taking specific steps toward disarmament, under commitments they made in 2000 at the last of these twice-a-decade conferences.
Nuclear 'have-nots' complain the Bush administration, in particular, has acted contrary to those commitments, by rejecting the nuclear test-ban treaty, for example.
Washington, for its part, wants the conference to focus on what it alleges are Iran's plans to build nuclear arms in violation of the treaty, and on North Korea's withdrawal from the treaty and claim to have nuclear bombs.
Under the 188-nation non-proliferation pact, nations without "
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