U.N. council to weigh nuclear arms ban in Middle East

[dutchdemocrat]

U.N. council to weigh nuclear arms ban in Middle East

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council, at the request of Arab nations, will meet on Monday to discuss a Syrian draft resolution calling for the Middle East to rid itself of all nuclear, biological and chemical arms.

Arab diplomats said they sought the meeting after the council earlier this week issued a statement welcoming Libya's announcement that it was voluntarily abandoning its programs for developing weapons of mass destruction.

But they said the draft was clearly aimed at Israel, widely believed to be the only country in the Middle East to have nuclear weapons though it has never officially acknowledged possessing them.

"It is well known that Israel is the only country in the region that maintains nuclear weapons and capabilities," said one Arab diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Syria, whose two-year term on the 15-nation council expires at midnight on Wednesday, was pushing for the measure's adoption to crown its council membership, Arab diplomats said.

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Guess Israel won't be too happy.

[judy]

1. All power to them if they go through with it...

and don't give in to US and Israel intimidation which has been so successful in the past!

They also should insist that the occupier of Iraq has to rid itself of all Weapons of Mass Destruction, OR leave Iraq, as part of the resolution.
Only countries who satisfy the conditions in the measure should be allowed to perform peacekeeping duties in Iraq under the aegis of the United Nation.

[forgethell]

4. I didn't know

that we were performing these peace-keeping duties in Iraq under the aegis of the UN. Have I been out of the loop?

UN resolutions are great things. who's going to enforce them against the United States. I think we make fools of ourselves, I include the Arab nations here, too, when we make threats and commands that we cannot enforce. It is no wonder that we Dems keep losing elections.

[judy]

5. Oh, you are not wrong, forgethell...

and unfortunately not out of the loop either.

The US used to be the strength behind the UN which was created in the US, to make sure that no more Hitlers try to build empires at the expense of the rest of the world.

Now, ironically, the 2 countries that are discounting the UN as irrelevant are the one that created it, and the one in whose defense it was created.

My post was mainly wishful thinking.
The UN is only as strong as we make it. Just like we stop at red lights because we agree to stop. No one can force the Nasty Little Emperor to do anything. But the least they could do is speak up their opposition, expose the double standards and dangers involved in Empire building.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Here comes the veto

Yawn...

[JailForBush]

3. Brilliant move by Syria!

It puts the ball in Israel's corner, and it will also make the U.S. look foolish if George Bush threatens to invade Syria (or launches a pre-emptive attack) - especially after Bush lied his way into Gulf War II.

[Jim Sagle]

6. The idea of Syria, a major terrorist state, on the UN Security Council,

is loathsome to any decent human being.

Israel needs nukes to survive. Those who would disarm her are working for a massacre of Jews, whether or not they know it.