Posted on 09/18/2007 8:56:32 PM PDT by SmithL
Two weeks after Israel's alleged bombing raid in Syria, which some foreign reports said targeted North Korean nuclear material, the UN's nuclear watchdog elected Syria as deputy chairman of its General Conference on Monday.
The 51st session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened in Vienna on Monday and will run through Friday.
The Syrian news agency SANA proudly reported the election on Tuesday, adding that Syria was also successful in including "the Israeli nuclear arsenal as an item on the agenda of the conference."
The agenda for the meeting includes the item "Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat." While Iran will be a focus of the discussions, there is no item on the agenda referring to the Islamic Republic by name.
Israel's Foreign Ministry had "no public comment" on Syria's election.
But Gerald Steinberg, chairman of Bar-Ilan University's political science department and an authority on nonproliferation, said the election "reflects the absurdity of the political process inside the IAEA."
The deputy chairman has no real power and is merely a symbolic post, similar to a deputy president of the UN General Assembly or a deputy speaker of the Knesset, he said. However, Steinberg added, "this move shows how little these types of international frameworks can really do when some of the main players are also the main violators of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."
Steinberg said that both Iraq and Iran have held similar positions within the IAEA in the past. He also said there was no connection between the political level and the organization's technological branches under the directorship of Mohamed ElBaradei, which inspect nuclear facilities.
The General Conference, made up of some 144 countries, is the least important of the IAEA's three main bodies. The other two bodies are the Board of Governors and the Secretariat.
The General Conference meets annually to approve budgets and to discuss nuclear-related issues and IAEA policy.•
UNBELIEVABLE - well considering it’s the un, it’s not so unbelievable.
This just goes to show how deeply corrupted by tyrants and the ROP Mullah mafia the UN is.
Cut off all funding to this useless and dangerous world cancer, and dismantle it.
The United Nations:
Plumbing new depths of corruption, hypocrisy and malfeasance daily!
Who cares?
OJ Simpson was arrested!(sarcasm)
Good Grief! I may have to start believing in all this end times stuff. This is insane!
Dozens died in Syrian/Iranian Chemical Weapons Experiment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898490/posts
Didn’t you hear? OJ was framed...
Is this in-your-face, or what? I can almost see the hand with the extended middle finger raised jubilantly towards Israel and the U.S.
We need to pull the US out of the UN NOW. Stop supporting World thuggery.
I’m sure it was all a big misunderstanding.
Jesse and Al will clear it up.
“Is this in-your-face, or what? I can almost see the hand with the extended middle finger raised jubilantly towards Israel and the U.S.”
That’s exactly what it was!! How long are we going to sit by and let the IAEA and the UN give nuclear weapons to all of the countries that have stated objectives of destroying the US and Israel??
Clinton ‘trusted’ them......and Pakistan got the bomb and so did North Korea!!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH FOLKS!! Call your Congresscritters!! This will not stand!
That’s right...They should have made Syria the kitty litter dump of the world
“Well according to the Good Book, Israel is suppose to be attacked from the North (read Syria).”
Well..the Good Book doesn’t say when...and I say WE STOP IT!! LOL!!
Why in the world do we continue to participate in this farce.
What a sham.
“Why in the world do we continue to participate in this farce.”
Why are we watching an OJ redo on all of the cable news outlets tonight? Why... when we are not watching OJ..are we watching Brittany, Paris, Anna Nicole, Valerie or the McCanns?
Let’s see....it is looking more and more like we will soon have the answer to what happened to Iraq’s WMDS and the Communist/Leftist/’Democratic’ media is desperately trying to get us focussed on the stuff of fluff!!
WHY??
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