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To: tejek who wrote (232178)	5/10/2005 1:37:53 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571166

Ignorance is Blix Hans Blix says the United States isn’t taking nuclear non-proliferation seriously, by which he means we aren’t rushing to unilaterally disarm. According to Blix, the US is to blame for North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear programs; if we really wanted to stop these rogue states, we’d be working harder to please countries like Egypt. And Blix really hates John Bolton, of course. It’s impossible to make up something this absurd. UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Washington isn’t taking “the common bargain” of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as seriously as it once did, and that’s dimming global support for the U.S. campaign to shut down the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector said. Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton, by questioning the value of treaties and international law, has also damaged the U.S. position, Hans Blix said. “There is a feeling the common edifice of the international community is being dismantled,” the Swedish arms expert said. Under the 188-nation pact, nations without nuclear weapons pledge not to pursue them, in exchange for a commitment by five nuclear-weapons states - the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China - to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament. The review conference has been stalled, without an agenda, because of a dispute over agenda language dealing with the very dissatisfaction Blix spoke of: the complaints by some that the nuclear-weapons states are moving too slowly toward disarmament. A last-minute objection by Egypt last Friday scuttled an apparent agreement on the agenda. The Egyptians wanted language that focused more on assessing how well the nuclear powers have done in taking specific steps toward disarmament, under commitments they made in 2000 at the last of these twice-a-decade conferences. The United Nations shows how seriously they’re taking the issue by inviting Yoko Ono to speak.