Saturday, April 10, 2010

Israel’s Prime Minister dropped out of the Nuclear Summit meeting.

Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister of Israel – cancelled his trip to the Nuclear Summit meeting held in Washington DC next week, and placed another minister for this event this past Thursday April 8. The meeting between leaders of nearly four dozen countries is to focus on the weapons of North Korea, the nuclear program of Iran, as well as possible sanctions against Iran. The cancellation was left with silence but Israel’s media believed that the Prime Minister feared of the scenario where this meeting would be an occasion for Muslim states and other countries to question about Israel’s suspected nuclear armament and its refusal to sign the nonproliferation treaty.

This last-minute cancellation has also placed a backlash on the terms of restarting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians of the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government which has already been a tension.

Read more athttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/world/middleeast/09mideast.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Fmiddleeast%2Findex.jsonp

by Yen Do.

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