Word: elbaradei
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...This is not a kick in the shin of any nation, any leader." OLE DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
...DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel Committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
...Speaking to reporters in Vienna Friday, after receiving a round of applause from his staff, ElBaradei said: "The award sends a very strong message: 'Keep doing what you are doing - be impartial, act with integrity.' And that is what we intend...
...Despite the limitations of the existing treaty framework, ElBaradei believes that strengthening it remains the only plausible course of action because no single country or group of countries enjoys sufficient international trust. "You can't just bomb your way into every country that you suspect of harboring WMD," he said. "You need a system. The lesson of Iraq is that you need to have a working system in place...
...ElBaradei's view that countries, such as North Korea, who claim to covet nuclear weapons a deterrent to aggression by current nuclear-armed states ought to be given security guarantees is not exactly conventional wisdom in Washington. The IAEA chief's critics charge that he had been overly legalistic, for example, declaring at one point that his inspectors in Iran had uncovered "no evidence" of non-compliance with existing rules despite the country's acknowledged long-term pattern of deception over aspects of its program. Still, the U.S. has had to accept that like the NPT itself, ElBaradei...