Canada Ping!
Posted on 05/26/2015 8:14:50 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Israel has expressed its gratitude to Canada for helping to block a major international plan towards ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
Elsewhere, however, there was widespread international disappointment that Canada and Britain supported the United States in opposing the document at the United Nations review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The document called on the UN to hold a disarmament conference on the Middle East by 2016. Such a conference could have forced Israel to publicly acknowledge that it is a nuclear power, something the Jewish state has never done.
Adopting the document would have required a consensus, but since none was reached, that means nuclear disarmament efforts have been blocked until 2020.
In a weekend phone call, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Stephen Harper for what he called Canada’s principled stand, Harper’s office in Ottawa said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Like the UN peace-keeping efforts (or lack thereof) are doing such a wonderful bang up job of maintaining global peace as it is? NOT...
Yes we CAN-ada.
Ping.
Ping.
Let’s see if the English will also step up and veto the UN resolution recognizing a Pallie state. I’m not holding my breath, but I am praying for it (praying for Obama to suddenly develop wisdom and morality is a rather fruitless exercise).
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Pick and choose UN doing what?
What could go wrong?
oops, nevermind.
It's time to abandon this fantasy of a nuclear-free world, and start giving serious thought to how to deal with a multi-polar nuclear world.
Canada Ping!
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