Africa | America | Asia | Australasia | Europe | India | Middle East | UK | US

Israel tries to block Jordan's nuclear cooperation with others

Amman - Israel is trying to block Jordan's bids to obtain nuclear technology for peaceful uses through agreements with the world's leading nuclear powers, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Wednesday, citing a senior diplomat. Over the past three years...
Posted : Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:35:46 GMT
By : DPA
Category : Middle East (World)
News Alerts by Email ( click here )
Middle East World News | Home
Amman - Israel is trying to block Jordan's bids to obtain nuclear technology for peaceful uses through agreements with the world's leading nuclear powers, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Wednesday, citing a senior diplomat. Over the past three years, Israel "sought to obstruct the signing of any nuclear cooperation with Jordan," the paper quoted an unnamed senior Jordanian diplomat as saying.

"Israeli agents were following closely the movements of the President of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), Khalid Touqan, and his discussions with concerned officials in other states of the world, and tried by all means to sway those countries not to sign cooperation agreements with Jordan," the diplomat said.

The Israeli ambassador in Jordan violated all diplomatic conventions many times by trying to convince ambassadors of Western countries accredited to Jordan to block the signing of nuclear cooperation agreements with Jordan, the paper reported. "The envoys confided this to their friends in Amman."

On Sunday, Jordan inked a nuclear cooperation agreement with Britain, the latest of a series of such accords. Similar agreements had previously been signed with Canada, France, the United States, Russia, China and South Korea.

Jordan and other Arab countries have come to show increasing interest in possession of nuclear technology after Iran went adamantly ahead with its nuclear programme over the past few years.

Copyright DPA

Share/Save/Bookmark

Article : Israel tries to block Jordan's nuclear cooperation with others
Print this article
Email this article

Stay Updated
News gadget on your Google homepage
Subscribe to a news feed in Google Reader


Related News



Have your Say
Name
Email
Subject
Your Comment

Enter Verification code
 
  


 

More Middle East (World) News click here
Follow The Earth Times
Subscribe to RSS Follow Earth Times on TwitterNews by email
Share/Save/Bookmark

 
 



 
Subscribe to free Earthtimes
News Alerts by Email Click here
For RSS Feeds Click here
or Create your own RSS

Add to Google Toolbar
Breaking News
Press Releases

 

 

The Earth Times
News Category

© 2010 www.earthtimes.org, The Earth Times, All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy
Earth Times accept no responsibility or liability either directly or indirectly for views or opinions expressed in articles or comments.