Speaking to reporters at the end of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, President Obama on Friday gave a critical response to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s recent remarks about nuclear weaponry.
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More than 50 leaders from across the world including Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari and Gabon’s Ali Bongo attended the nuclear summit.
The adviser said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was eagerly looking forward to participating in the summit’s deliberations but unfortunate developments back home prevented him from traveling to Washington. Presently, both countries are not nuclear states, but they are covered under the United States’ nuclear umbrella if they were ever to be attacked. North Korea was suspected to be behind them.
It is worrying that nuclear terrorism is becoming a real threat.
It said, “Pakistan is ready to assist interested states with experience and expertise gained in the areas of nuclear power generation, and other applications of nuclear technology, under the auspices of the IAEA”.
Tariq Fatemi says Pakistan is party to several worldwide instruments relevant to nuclear safety and security. He discussed the global effort we have been leading to secure the world’s nuclear materials and highlighted the fact that working with other nations, we have removed or secured enough nuclear material for more than 150 nuclear weapons, material that will now never fall into the hands of terrorists.
The threat of terrorists of using nuclear material in a “dirty bomb” – or even obtaining an atomic weapon – has loomed large over the summit, punctuated by revelations that IS members tracked a Belgian nuclear scientist on video.
On the global front, a strengthened nuclear security agreement was finally poised to take force, extending safeguards for nuclear materials being used, stored and transported while requiring criminal penalties for nuclear smuggling. So we can not be complacent. It would change our world. Nuclear facilities must also be protected from such extremist groups as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The Summit brought together fifty countries in the U.S. federal capital and offered the opportunity to examine means and mechanisms to reinforce nuclear security all over the world.
We have greatly reduced the possibility that terrorists can get nuclear explosive material.
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Park arrived in Mexico on Saturday for the second segment of her trip. At a dinner with the Korean community in a hotel in a Mexico City, her first official event in the country, she said that if Pyongyang does not give up its path of nuclear provocations despite warnings from the global community, it would lead to its “further isolation and self-destruction”.
