Rus­si­a­To­day: rt.​com http Pres­i­dent Ah­madine­jad lash­es out at nu­cle­ar pow­ers dur­ing UN sum­mit 03
May, 2010, 17:55 As near­ly 200 states met to re­view the UN nu­cle­ar
pact, Ira­ni­an Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ah­madine­jad told the sum­mit that
the non-pro­lif­er­a­tion treaty failed to dis­arm nu­cle­ar states and
ac­cused the US of dou­ble stan­dards. The Ira­ni­an pres­i­dent has
also said there's not a shred of cred­i­ble ev­i­dence his coun­try is
de­vel­op­ing nu­cle­ar weapons. At the open­ing speech, UN Sec­re­tary
Gen­er­al Ban Ki-Moon di­rect­ly called on the Ira­ni­an gov­ern­ment to
clar­i­fy in­ter­na­tion­al con­cerns about its nu­cle­ar ac­tiv­i­ties
and com­ply with Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil res­o­lu­tions. Re­spond­ing to
the sec­re­tary gen­er­al, Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ah­madine­jad said Iran
is ready to ex­change its low-en­riched ura­ni­um for nu­cle­ar fuel
pro­duced abroad. "I want to reply to UN sec­re­tary gen­er­al's call
for Iran to agree on the ex­change of ura­ni­um for nu­cle­ar fuel, he
said. Iran was al­ways ready for this, and we have made our pro­pos­al
con­cern­ing the issue. Now, the ball is on the side of other states.
The Non-Pro­lif­er­a­tion Treaty (NPT), which is what the con­fer­ence
fo­cus­es on, was signed 40 years ago and cur­rent­ly unites 189 states.
It re­quires that non-nu­cle­ar sig­na­to­ry na­tions promise not to
de­vel­op nu­cle­ar weapons and in re­turn they are al­lowed to have
peace­ful nu­cle­ar pro­grams. Five par­ties to the treaty are pub­licly
rec­og­nized as nu­cle­ar states: the Unit­ed States, Rus­sia, the
Unit­ed King­dom, France and China. The treaty <b>...</b>

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