Pakistan to head UN Nuclear Watchdog

My name is URL

It was today announced that Pakistan is expected to chair the IAEA board

Interestingly they have never signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation agreement, along with Israel & India.

Since relations between Israel and Pakistan are tense (Pakistan has said it will not recognize Israel as a state until a Palestinian state is established). It'll be interesting to see how things pans out.

Do you think Pakistan will put pressure on Israel to give up on its policy of deliberate ambiguity surrounding the possession of nuclear weapons?

Furthermore, doesn't it sort of fly in the face of the UN as a whole that a non-signatory of such an important treaty can be tasked with heading the IAEA?

Einhard

My name is URL wrote: »

It was today announced that Pakistan is expected to chair the IAEA board

Interestingly they have never signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation agreement, along with Israel & India.

Since relations between Israel and Pakistan are tense (Pakistan has said it will not recognize Israel as a state until a Palestinian state is established). It'll be interesting to see how things pans out.

Do you think Pakistan will put pressure on Israel to give up on its policy of deliberate ambiguity surrounding the possession of nuclear weapons?

Furthermore, doesn't it sort of fly in the face of the UN as a whole that a non-signatory of such an important treaty can be tasked with heading the IAEA?

And the UN becomes even more of a laughing stock...

wes

They should follow this up with India. North Korea, Israel, Iran and Myanmar.......

Yeah, this is silly. Pakistan (as well as India, Israel, North Korea etc) should sign up to the NPT asap.

BlaasForRafa

wes wrote: »

They should follow this up with India. North Korea, Israel, Iran and Myanmar.......

Yeah, this is silly. Pakistan (as well as India, Israel, North Korea etc) should sign up to the NPT asap.

All states who do not recognise Israel should recognise it asap.

See? We don't always get what we want.

demonspawn

My name is URL wrote: »

It was today announced that Pakistan is expected to chair the IAEA board

Interestingly they have never signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation agreement, along with Israel & India.

Since relations between Israel and Pakistan are tense (Pakistan has said it will not recognize Israel as a state until a Palestinian state is established). It'll be interesting to see how things pans out.

Do you think Pakistan will put pressure on Israel to give up on its policy of deliberate ambiguity surrounding the possession of nuclear weapons?

Furthermore, doesn't it sort of fly in the face of the UN as a whole that a non-signatory of such an important treaty can be tasked with heading the IAEA?

Get ready for the nuclear holocaust. I'm personally going to volunteer in Africa before it all kicks off. Not much to bomb in Africa. Maybe even South America. I hear the weather there is quite nice.

wes

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

All states who do not recognise Israel should recognise it asap.

See? We don't always get what we want.

Well, when they define there borders, I am sure they will be more than happy to do so . BTW, the Arab league offered to recognize Israel, when there is a Palestinians state (on the 67 borders), so everyone knows what to do to make that happen. Anyway the thread is about Pakistan heading the UN Nuclear watch dog, so lets stick to that.

Regardless, I see no compelling reason for India, Pakistan, North Korea, or Israel to not sign the NPT. It would put a huge dent in Iran's messing about with the IAEA, and make the world a safer place.

My name is URL

demonspawn wrote: »

Get ready for the nuclear holocaust. I'm personally going to volunteer in Africa before it all kicks off. Not much to bomb in Africa. Maybe even South America. I hear the weather there is quite nice.

I wouldn't be that worried about it. =p

It really does make a mockery of a lot of the population's core ideals though. To make a nation which refused to sign up to one of, if not the the most important international agreements relating to the cessation of destruction of humanity; is frankly astounding.

Do we really need politics when in its most modern and internationally intertwined form, can lead to idiocy like this?!

Jeboa Safari

Unusual choice, certainly doesn't look like it would do them any good. Pakistan is one of the worst nations you'd like to see with nuclear weapons, doubt they'll ever get rid of them though

Cromwellian Conquest

No surprises there. This is an organisation that saw fit to let Libya and Syria head the Human rights council.

karma_

Cromwellian Conquest wrote: »

No surprises there. This is an organisation that saw fit to let Libya and Syria head the Human rights council.

Welcome back Sykes.

Cromwellian Conquest

karma_ wrote: »

Welcome back Sykes.

Pardon?

Scofflaw

karma_ wrote: »

Welcome back Sykes.

No assumptions of that kind, please.

moderately,
Scofflaw