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JORDAN - Jan 19 - Jordan Weighs Nuclear Programme.

Jordan becomes the latest Middle East state to announce it is investigating the creation of a civil nuclear programme. King Abdullah King Abdullah can refer to:
  • Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, regent of Saudi Arabia since 1995 and king since 2005.
  • Abdullah II, king of Jordan since 1999
  • Abdullah I, Emir of Transjordan (1921–1946) and King of Transjordan (1946–1951)
 told Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper that the changing political climate in the region had prompted him to consider alternative energy means. "The Egyptians are looking for Looking for

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 a nuclear programme", he said. "The GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council.

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 [Gulf Co-operation Council] are looking at one and we are actually looking at nuclear power for peaceful and energy purposes. We've been discussing it with the west". His comments were made amid mounting concern among regional Sunni states such as Jordan, as well as in Israel and the west, about Iran's nuclear ambitions. At the end of December the UN Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology, fearing its uranium enrichment programme could be used to produce nuclear weapons. Shi'ite Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful. King Abdullah said he did not want to see a nuclear arms race The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies during the Cold War. During the Cold War, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries also developed  in the Middle East, saying international regulations should be applied. Israel is the only nuclear power in the region although it refuses to acknowledge possession of nuclear weapons under a policy known as "nuclear ambiguity". It merely pledges not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the region. Other Arab countries looking towards future nuclear capability include Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. . According to the IAEA IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency. , Jordan is conducting a feasibility study "A Feasibility Study" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 13 April, 1964, during the first season. It was remade in 1997 as part of the revived The Outer Limits series with a minor title change.  on a nuclear power programme. King Abdullah said last summer's war between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbullah Islamist movement, backed by Iran, had changed the outlook. "The rules have changed on the nuclear subject throughout the whole region. Where I think Jordan was saying 'we'd like to have a nuclear-free zone in the area', after this summer everybody's going for nuclear programmes". Pro-western Jordan is surrounded by conflict zones including Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel-Palestine.
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Publication:APS Diplomat Recorder
Geographic Code:7JORD
Date:Jan 19, 2007
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