{"id":14809,"date":"2011-10-03T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=14809"},"modified":"2011-09-28T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:55:53","slug":"iaea-wont-discuss-israels-nuclear-capabilities-after-arab-proposal-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/10\/iaea-wont-discuss-israels-nuclear-capabilities-after-arab-proposal-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"IAEA Won&#8217;t Discuss Israel&#8217;s &#8216;Nuclear Capabilities&#8217; After Arab Proposal Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Behind-the-scenes diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Association leads to Arab states withdrawing their motion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Israel secured a diplomatic achievement at the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) Friday [23 Sep 2011] in Vienna when the Arab states withdrew their proposal to discuss Israel\u2019s \u201cnuclear capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the support of the United States and other Western nations, Israel was active behind the scenes to torpedo the Arab initiative, and were ultimately successful. It would seem that one of the reasons that the Arab bloc withdrew their proposal was last year\u2019s failure, when the conference denied their request to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the conference adopted a decision entitled, \u201cThe Implementation of IAEA Supervision in the Middle East.\u201d Israel abstained from voting on this proposal as it did last year, as did the United Nations, Canada and a number of other nations.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also voted against a clause in the proposal that calls on all states in the Middle East to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel is not a signatory to the treaty, and it has no intentions to become one. Most of the world believes that Israel has nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/iaea-won-t-discuss-israel-s-nuclear-capabilities-after-arab-proposal-dropped-1.386334\" >Go to Original \u2013 haaretz.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind-the-scenes diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Association leads to Arab states withdrawing their motion. Israel secured a diplomatic achievement at the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) Friday [23 Sep 2011] in Vienna when the Arab states withdrew their proposal to discuss Israel\u2019s \u201cnuclear capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}