{"id":1935,"date":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/elbaradei-ignoring-israel-undermines-npt\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"elbaradei-ignoring-israel-undermines-npt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/02\/elbaradei-ignoring-israel-undermines-npt\/","title":{"rendered":"ELBARADEI: IGNORING ISRAEL UNDERMINES NPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN nuclear chief says a double-standard approach to Israel’s nukes has undermined the non-proliferation regime. <\/em><\/p>\n

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Monday that Arab nations believe that Israel has undermined the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and this is a major obstacle to nuclear disarmament.<\/p>\n

"What compounds the problem is that the nuclear non-proliferation regime has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of Arab public opinion because of the perceived double-standards concerning Israel, the only state in the region outside the NPT and known to possess nuclear weapons," he wrote in The Herald Tribune.<\/p>\n

Israel is largely believed to posses the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East and has refused to sign the NPT or put its nuclear facilities under the UN supervision.<\/p>\n

Former US president Jimmy Carter confirmed in May 2008 that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal.<\/p>\n

ElBaradei’s remarks come amid speculations that the new administration of Barack Obama intends to engage Iran in direct negotiations over the country’s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

The UN nuclear watchdog has been investigating the Iranian program but its findings are often ignored by the international community.<\/p>\n

"The UN and related agencies must be given adequate authority and funding and put in the hands of leaders who have vision, courage and credibility," the UN official added.<\/p>\n

ElBaradei also blamed the US and Israel’s unilateral policies for encouraging other nations to develop nuclear arms.<\/p>\n

"Above all, we need to halt the glaring breach of core principles of international law such as limitations on the unilateral use of force, proportionality in self-defense and the protection of civilians during hostilities in order to avoid a repeat of the civilian carnage in Iraq and, most recently, in Gaza."

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The UN nuclear chief says a double-standard approach to Israel’s nukes has undermined the non-proliferation regime. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Monday that Arab nations believe that Israel has undermined the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and this is a major obstacle to nuclear disarmament. "What compounds the problem is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}