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Banneling
Geregistreerd: 18 april 2004
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En het zal wss voor de VS gemakkelijker zijn, dan moeten ze die wapens niet meer ter plaatse brengen.. ![]() |
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#122 | |
Gouverneur
Geregistreerd: 20 oktober 2002
Locatie: Zonhoven
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Je weet wel, F-14 Tomcats en ander spul werden het speelgoed van de ayatollah... Eens het huidige bewind aan de kant gezet In Saoudi-Arabië kunnen er allerhande gebeuren met het beschikbare wapentuig.... |
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#123 | |
Minister
Geregistreerd: 1 juni 2006
Locatie: Gent
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Maar Irak heeft al sinds 1991 geen luchtmacht meer, en werd vanaf die tijd ontwapend en onderworpen aan inspecties. Het verzwakte Saddam-regime vormde tussen 1991 en 2003 geen noemenswaardige bedreiging oor de Saudi's. En toch is het juist in die periode dat we een enorme stijging zien van het Saudische defensiebudget. En ondertussen zijn er al enkele jaren vermoedens dat Saudi-Aravbië ook aan een geheim nucleair programma werkt. In 2003 verscheen hierover een artikel in The Guardian. "In September 2003, an article in The Guardian alleged serious efforts on the part of the Saudis to acquire nuclear weapons.[1] The Guardian referred to a strategy paper, supposedly considered at the highest levels in Riyadh, that set out three options for maintaining national security: 1. acquiring a nuclear capability as a deterrent; 2. maintaining or entering into an alliance with an existing nuclear power that would offer protection; and 3. trying to reach a regional agreement for a nuclear-free Middle East.[1] According to The Guardian article, the discussion of the strategy paper was triggered by the current instability in the Middle East, Riyadh’s estrangement from Washington, and the subsequent weakening of its reliance on the U.S. nuclear umbrella.[1] However, the day after the article came out, the Saudi government forcefully denied all allegations put forward by the newspaper. The Saudi Embassy in Washington reacted to the reports, and called them “baseless and totally false.”[3] Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Turki Bin-Muhammad also dismissed the allegations and noted that the Kingdom has always been known for its position in support of making the Middle East region free of weapons of mass destruction.[4] Initiatives to establish a nuclear weapons free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East have been discussed since 1974. Since that time, several resolutions have been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly urging countries to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and place all nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. Saudi Arabia also joined the coalition of countries demanding a NWFZ in the Middle East, and in May 1999, Ambassador Fazvi A. Shobokshi, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, officially declared the Kingdom’s interest in efforts to eliminate WMD from the region. However, in his statement, Shobokshi raised concerns over Israel’s refusal to cooperate in these efforts, and stressed that Israel was the only country undermining initiatives for the establishment of the NWFZ in the Middle East. This statement indicates Saudi Arabia’s serious concerns about Israel’s nuclear capabilities.[5] Although Saudi officials denied the allegations in The Guardian article about Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions, according to Simon Henderson, a London-based associate of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Guardian report had merit. Henderson claims that the report was based on comments at a meeting that was held during a three-day international symposium on “Saudi Arabia, Britain, and the Wider World” organized by the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. The 29 invited participants at the symposium included the author of The Guardian report, three princes from the Saudi royal family, a Saudi government minister, and two members of the Saudi consultative council. According to Henderson, the Saudi participants discussed the information that formed the basis for The Guardian article on Saudi Arabia’s nuclear options, and the accuracy of The Guardian story was later confirmed by one of the meeting participants.[6] " http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_40a.html
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Secretaris-Generaal VN
Geregistreerd: 2 september 2002
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