Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Yuki Amano pressing Israel about it's nuclear policy?

I have seen articles claiming that IAEA commander in chief, Yuki Amano, is pressing Israel on it's supposed nuclear program. Yet, no statements have been made to that effect and the visit is quite low key with Yuki Amano only meeting with Peres; not with any of the higher authorities.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Amano seems to think that only Iran, not Israel, is a country to worry about gaining nuclear capabilities, as reported in the LA Times.
Amano... divides the world into responsible nuclear states and those that refuse to play by the rules, such as Iran and North Korea.
"Regarding this notion — of virtual nuclear weapons states — there isn't such a concept in the IAEA," he said. "There are those countries which apply fully comprehensive safeguards and other obligations. And there are some other countries that do not."
Israel, India and Pakistan, which are not signatories to the international Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, are not subject to the same safeguards as Iran, which is. But there remains a longstanding point of disagreement between the agency and Tehran over those rules, stemming from different interpretations of whether the Islamic Republic is obliged to adhere to a set of additional rules that it signed on to — provisionally, it now says — in 2003.
At the start of last month's meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, Amano labeled Iran a "special case" because of its refusal to fully implement those additional rules and for defying six United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on it to halt its enrichment of uranium.
"I'm not saying that Iran has a nuclear weapons program," he said. "But there are issues that need clarification. Iran has past activities which were not declared. All of these aspects are specific, special to Iran. We don't find other countries that are in the same situation."
So where has this idea come from?

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