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Jerusalem (AFP) May 5, 2011 Even if Iran obtains nuclear weapons it will not use them against Israel or other countries in the Middle East, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told the Haaretz newspaper on Thursday. The views expressed in the interview with the Israeli daily appear to put the defence minister at odds with many in the Israeli military and political establishment, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran will not drop a nuclear bomb on Israel, "not on us, not on any other neighbour," Barak told Haaretz. "I don't think in terms of panic," he added. Israeli politicians including Netanyahu have regularly raised the spectre of a nuclear attack by Iran to call for international pressure to halt the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme. Tehran insists the programme is solely for civil nuclear power and medical purposes, but Israel and many Western governments fear it masks a weapons drive.
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G8, G20 to prepare ground for UN nuclear talksParis (AFP) April 28, 2011 The G8 and G20 will meet in Paris in June to prepare for a conference of the UN's nuclear agency sparked by the Fukushima disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Thursday. "The G8 and G20 have decided that they would like to hold a meeting on the 7th and 8th of June, hosted here at the OECD conference centre," OECD chief Angel Gurria told a press confe ... read more |
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