The summit, the final of four Obama has held during his presidency since 2010, drew over 50 leaders from around the world to discuss ways to prevent the use of nuclear weapons and better secure nuclear materials, especially from the threat of nuclear terrorism, CNN reported.
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President Barack Obama speaking at a press conference in Washington at the conclusion of the nuclear security summit.
United States president Barack Obama has asked world leaders to ensure terrorist organizations do not get access to vulnerable nuclear facilities.
“The single most effective defence against nuclear terrorism is fully securing this material so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands in the first place”, Obama added.
But Obama nodded at his own failures too, saying poor relations with Russian Federation – the world’s other major hoarder of nukes – had hobbled his hopes to reduce conventional nuclear stockpiles.
Obama used the summit to push for technical measures to safeguard fissile materials and limit the civilian use of uranium and plutonium.
With ten months left in office, the Iran deal is a debatable success, while the threat posed by North Korea continues to simmer.
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Obama said no group had succeeded in obtaining bomb materials but that Al-Qaeda had long sought them, and he said actions by Islamic State militants in Paris and Brussels had recently raised similar concerns.
Obama said the part criticism on U.S. drone attacks is valid and reasonable as innocent people die in those attacks. The Adviser said the Nuclear Security Summit has reinforced nuclear security culture as an area of special focus.
“It would be a humanitarian, political, economic and environmental catastrophe with global ramifications for decades”.
USA officials said they had no doubt that Islamic State, which controls swaths of Syria and Iraq, was interested in obtaining such materials, but authorities had no explicit evidence that the group had tried to do so.
They agreed more efforts and worldwide cooperation are needed to prevent nuclear terrorism and promote disarmament. “Particularly since it’s the last summit in this format, this is a good time to do something like this because it shows that we want to continue to work with China and sustain this work of the summit past today”.
“I treat with respect the countries, which have made a decision to participate in the summit”, Lavrov said.
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In a speech delivered at the NSS opening plenary Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged countries around the world to increase national input and expand worldwide cooperation to further firm up the global nuclear security architecture.
