Posted on 05/15/2009 7:21:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
France has agreed to provide Pakistan with civilian nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, state-owned PTV reported Friday, quoting Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
According to Qureshi, France has expressed its readiness for cooperating with Pakistan in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
The affirmation came during President Asif Ali Zardari’s discussions with his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy.
Further negotiations on this will be held in July this year, Qureshi said.
Zardari, who is on his first visit to France after assuming office, Friday held extensive discussions on a wide range of bilateral issues.
The two leaders reviewed bilateral ties, the regional security scenario with a focus on the situation in Afghanistan and the military operation against the Taliban in parts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), APP reported.
Zardari briefed Sarkozy about Pakistan’s counter-terrorism operations in the NWFP and the measures being taken for the rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were fleeing the fighting.
The French president announced a grant of 12 million euros to help the around one million-odd IDPs who had been forced to leave their homes because of the conflict.
I always put out fires with gasoline.
With friends like these .....
Didn’t they also sell some Exocet missles to Saddam? While the world spirals into chaos, Frogs are doing what they can to make a quick buck. And we already know that when the nukes start to fly, they will be the first to retreat, the first to appease, and the last to support the USA in the clean up.
But, when theres a buck to be made after the clean-up is over - they’ll demand first place in line, ..... again.
thanks nick.
‘Pakistan Making More N-Weapons’
Hindustan Times | 5/15/09
Posted on 05/15/2009 12:23:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251791/posts
Alas, we should show the French who is in charge and send Pakistan our best "windmill" technology.
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For the past 30+ years, France gets 82% of its electricity from nuclear power. France is the world’s leader in Civilian Nuclear Technology.
Pakistan has had nuclear weapons for many years. I don’t see the big deal over nuclear power for electricity.
We could use some more of that right here at home.
This officially makes France a terrorist nation.
Why do people keep forgetting that Pakistan’s most reliable nuke delivery platforms are its F-16s. A good chunk of them paid for by you American taxpayers.
And the French subs which Pakistan has can also fire sub-Harpoon missiles.
The fear has always been proliferation. The thinking goes that a power plant is a gateway to nuclear arms. Just how well founded those fears are is hard to say. The experience gained in operation and construction of a civilian power plant can be applied to design and construction of weapons production facilities.
A well designed and installed civilian power plant poses little proliferation danger. The Iraqi French supplied Osirak reactor was certainly not a civilian power plant. It was an research reactor that could easily have been reconfigured to produce fissile material for weapons.
The fear has always been proliferation. The thinking goes that a power plant is a gateway to nuclear arms. Just how well founded those fears are is hard to say. The experience gained in operation and construction of a civilian power plant can be applied to design and construction of weapons production facilities.
A well designed and installed civilian power plant poses little proliferation danger. The Iraqi French supplied Osirak reactor was certainly not a civilian power plant. It was an research reactor that could easily have been reconfigured to produce fissile material for weapons.
Thank you for the technical info.
Please recall that Pakistan is already a nuclear powerr, and has had an arsenal of nuclear arms for many years.
Your point is absurd.
The French did not supply Pakistan with nuclear weapons, which they have had for many years.
Pakistan has been a nuclear power for many years. They developed nuclear weapons to be at parity with their nuclear armed neighbor, India.
Translation, please.
It doesn’t say anything in Urdu, it says “ping” in English but with Arabic letters that look like the letters p, i, n, and g.
I know that, however, both Pakistan and India’s nuclear technology is extremely primative. I think I was agreeing that French civilian nuclear reactors don’t pose a direct proliferation threat.
France historically has used one of two nuclear power plant designs (the big one and the smaller one) based on 1950’s Westinghouse designs. While this might strike some as unduly conservative, the French follow the design and operating philosophy of “keep it simple”. Their outstanding operating record attests to the effectiveness of this attitude.
“France is the world’s leader in Civilian Nuclear Technology.”
- Yes, in many ways France is, but from my Nordic, patriotic, perspective I consider it my holy duty to point out that my Sweden boasts more nuclear power plants per capita than France does!
Sweden has 10 reactors and a population of 9,2 millions, France has 59 reactors and is home to well over 60 million inhabitants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
“Pakistan has had nuclear weapons for many years. I don’t see the big deal over nuclear power for electricity.”
- Yes, Pakistan has already got the bomb. The main concern of us Westerners and others opposed to Islamofascism ought to be how we could prevent the Talibans and Al-Qaeda from getting their hands on the launch codes.
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