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Europe wary of Pak nukes
Some European countries are of the opinion that Pakistan’s position with regard to its nuclear capability must be discussed at length at the UN Security Council.
That should take years. Maybe centuries...
According to a report in The News, these European members of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) apex board wanted to raise in the UN Security Council what they described as the core question: "Whether a country incapable of guarding nuclear secrets can be trusted with nuclear weapons".
Now there’s a hot potato if I ever saw one.
Eleven EU countries represented at the 35-member IAEA board are - Denmark, Germany, France, the UK, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain (full members) and Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (EU accession countries). Quoting a diplomatic source, the report said that the EU members were against Washington’s paradigm of unilateralism in handling the sensitive issue like nuclear proliferation, and pleaded that the UNSC should play a key role in such problems.
They’ve done such a stellar job in the past.
According to the report, even European countries, including the UK and France, that had applauded the Pakistan government’s handling of the nuclear scientists, were raising the above mentioned question.
Visualizing their own cities glowing in the dark.
They pleaded that multi-lateralism, which was the cardinal principle of the "EU Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)", should be put to practice with its full force in the context of Pakistan’s nuclear programme.
I’d laugh if it wasn’t so serious.
Presently, the report added, Europeans were engaged in such consultations surreptitiously.
Posted by: Steve 2004-02-11
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=26031