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Nuke States & "Israel" urged to join new NPT

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Source: alalam.ir, 10-06-2008

SYDNEY-The world may need a new nuclear weapons treaty that includes India, Pakistan, 'Israel' and North Korea, an Australian official said Tuesday.

Former foreign minister Gareth Evans, who was appointed chairman of a new international body for nuclear disarmament, said nuclear powers who currently refuse to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) had to be included in a new process if the world were to abandon nuclear weapons.
Speaking to Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio from Romania, Evans said "We've got to bring in India, Pakistan, 'Israel' and North Korea--all those that are presently with weapons but outside that framework".

Nuke experts believe 'Israeli' regime has more than 300 undeclared nuclear warheads.
"What you're trying to do is create a framework in which rather than being outsiders, these guys once again become insiders. That may mean thinking about a whole new nuclear weapons treaty," he added.

Evans' appointment as head of the Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament Commission was announced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday.
Rudd said the new body hopes to recruit "like-minded countries" to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

The 190-nation Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was established in 1980 to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology and to further the goal of nuclear disarmament.
Review conferences are held every five years to assess implementation of the treaty.

"The objective is to take the work already done ... and to seek to shape a global consensus in the lead-up to the NPT review process in 2010," Rudd told reporters in Kyoto after he announced the commission during a speech at a university.

Rudd said the Australia-led commission--which he hoped other countries would join--would present recommendations to an international conference of experts at the end of 2009.

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