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« on: March 29, 2017, 10:21:04 pm »


from The Washington Post....

U.S. leads major powers in protesting U.N. effort to ban nuclear weapons

The Trump administration boycotts the session as more than 100 nations begin work on a binding U.N. ban.

By ANNE GEARAN | Monday, March 27, 2017

Flanked by French Deputy Representative to the United Nations Alexis Lamek (left) and British Representative to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft (right), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley speaks on Monday to reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York on a nuclear weapons ban treaty, which the U.S., Britain and France oppose. — Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
Flanked by French Deputy Representative to the United Nations Alexis Lamek (left) and British Representative to the United Nations
Matthew Rycroft (right), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation Nikki Haley speaks on Monday to reporters at the United Nations
headquarters in New York on a nuclear weapons ban treaty, which the U.S., Britain and France oppose.
 — Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.


THE United States, Britain, France and other major powers protested on Monday as the United Nations began work on what backers said would be a binding prohibition on nuclear weapons.

Russia and China also sat out the opening General Assembly session. Russia had voted against launching the effort last fall. China abstained.

The proposed ban, backed by Pope Francis, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and dozens of humanitarian and nonproliferation groups, sets most of the major nuclear powers against more than 100 smaller non-nuclear states who seek a treaty this year.

“As a mom, as a daughter, there is nothing I want more for my family than a world that has no nuclear weapons,” said Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. “But we have to be realistic. Is there anyone who believes that North Korea would agree” to give up its nuclear weapons on the U.N.'s orders?

She and representatives from Britain and France spoke to reporters as the U.N. General Assembly began discussion on the issue. More than 30 nations sat out the first session, many at U.S. urging, in support of the argument that a blanket ban now is impractical or dangerous.

“Is it any surprise that Iran is supportive of this?” Haley asked. “It is not.”

North Korea developed nuclear weapons through a rogue program and is attempting to field a long-range missile that could deliver a weapon to U.S. shores, according to U.S. officials. It can already target U.S. forces and allies in Asia, they have said.

Iran denies it sought a nuclear weapon, but agreed to curtail its nuclear program in an international deal led by former president Barack Obama and heavily criticized by President Trump.

Although Obama had set the eventual eradication of nuclear weapons as a goal, his administration also opposed a U.N. ban.

The Trump administration has not yet said whether it will affirm the long-range goal of eliminating nuclear weapons or pledge to further shrink the U.S. arsenal. The White House is conducting a new nuclear posture review expected to take a year or more.

Haley said on Monday that the United States and other major powers boycotting the U.N. discussion “believe in” the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The landmark treaty that took effect in 1970 commits nations with nuclear weapons to move toward disarmament while prohibiting non-nuclear states from obtaining the weapons. Signers of the treaty also agree that all nations may have access to nuclear power and other peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

As a presidential candidate, Trump suggested that U.S. allies Japan and South Korea could develop nuclear weapons and defend themselves, instead of relying on the U.S. nuclear umbrella, and suggested that nuclear weapons could be effective against Islamic State militants. He said both that he wanted the United States to have an up-to-date and perhaps expanded nuclear arsenal, and that he would like to see a nuclear-free world.

At the General Assembly session on Monday, diplomats said they would pursue a draft document this spring. A model is the two-decade-old U.N.-backed ban on land mines, which is credited with reducing use of those weapons even though major nations including then United States, Russia and China have declined to sign it.

Toshiki Fujimori , a baby when he survived the 1945 U.S. nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan, addressed the opening session.

“Everybody thought I would die, yet I survived. It's a miracle,” Fujimori said. “I am here at the U.N. asking for the abolition of nuclear weapons…. This is the mission I am given as a survivor.”

It faces a steep hurdle. The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members — who hold veto power — are the five original big nuclear powers: The United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China.

“The U.K. is not attending the negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons because we do not believe that those negotiations will lead to effective progress on global nuclear disarmament,” British U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said on Monday. “They cannot and will not work.”


• Anne Gearan is a national politics correspondent for The Washington Post.

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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2017, 02:53:46 pm »

No.....we need to keep nuclear weapons.....they prevent wars....we need to let American nuclear ships back into our waters.....just do we are doing our bit to protect ourselves...seeing as we don't really have much of a capable defence force🙄
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2017, 03:04:58 pm »


Thanks for confirming that North Korea possessing nuclear weapons as a deterrent will prevent American warmongering against North Korea.
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2017, 03:09:17 pm »

Yup...Ohhh...bummaaar did nothing for 8 years everybody just walked all over him....he is a scared little pussy..not unlike a kiwirail employee I know of😉
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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2017, 09:21:34 pm »

World leaders falling over themselves to have Trump visit😜


Trump arrives at Bastille Day parade
JULY 14, 20176:29PM

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have arrived at the viewing stand on the Champs-Elysees to attend the Bastille Day parade.
The Trumps were greeted at the Place de la Concorde by Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron arrived minutes later after being delivered via an open-air, military vehicle and reviewing the troops.
Macron invited Trump to be the guest of honour at Friday's celebration, which also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the US entry into World War I.
The traditional display of military might comes amid tight security, following two years of Islamic extremist attacks in France.
Trump is scheduled to return to the U.S. after the military parade and fireworks display marking the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution.

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« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2017, 12:44:42 pm »

Nuclear genie is well out of the bottle. We have to stop fucking around with the fringe lunatic regimes acquiring nuclear weapons. One of these crackpot regimes is going to use their weapons sooner or later. Obama and Clinton were idiots being sucked in by Iran.
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« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2017, 03:01:18 pm »


I betcha the next time nuclear weapons are used in anger, the perpetrator is either Israel or the USA.
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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2017, 04:26:23 pm »

If that horrific event happens it won't be because of "anger". It will either be a mistake or it will be retaliation for a similarly heinous act against either of those two countries.
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« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2017, 04:34:53 pm »

You think Israel and the US would be the most likely regimes to bomb hundreds of thousands or millions of people out of "anger"? And yet no mention of the regimes that either have or are acquiring nuclear weapons that are definitely rogue regimes guilty of horrific institutionalised abuse of their own people??? How does your thinking work there???
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« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2017, 05:15:26 pm »

Ktj..."I betcha"

.....how much!


....based on your prediction accuracy to date I would be mad to not bet against you🤑🤑🤑😜

....but only because you are always wrong🙄
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