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April 9, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1161776.html

Netanyahu Cancels Trip to U.S. Nuclear Summit

(Ha'aretz/Jerusalem Post) Barak Ravid - Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor will take Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's place at the nuclear summit in Washington next week. A senior government official explained that Israel was "disappointed" with developments in the run-up to the conference. "The nuclear security summit is supposed to be about dealing with the danger of nuclear terror....In the last few days we have received reports about the intention of several participant states to depart from the issue of combating terrorism and instead misuse the event to goad Israel over the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." Army Radio reported that U.S. sources informed Israel that a group of participating Arab countries led by Turkey and Egypt plan to use the summit to demand that Israel sign the NPT and allow its alleged nuclear capabilities to be placed under international inspection.

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