Canada's
"Pro-Israel"
Nuclear Vote
Has Arabs
Criticizing
Fissile
Material
Resolution
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 27 --
After Canada
voted "no" on
UN
resolution on
nuclear
weapons in the
Middle East, a
vote that was
seen a further
pro-Israel
movement in
Canadian
foreign
policy,
diplomats of
Arab countries
began to
discuss
retaliating by
voting
against or
abstaining on
an otherwise
unobjectionable
Canada sponsor
resolution on
the fissile
material,
Inner City
Press has
learned.
Arab
diplomats
contacted by
Inner City
Press
hearkened back
to Canada's
defeat a
year ago for a
Security
Council seat,
saying that
too was
attributable
to Canada's
pro-Israel, or
anti-Palestinian,
policies.
Now, they
said, the
fissile
material
resolution
might be their
only
way to send
another
"message" to
Canada.
This
comes as
several
Left-leaning
countries in
the Group of
Latin American
and
Caribbean
States
(GRULAC) have
been
expressing
more support
for
Canada's
fissile
materials
resolution.
(c) UN Photo
Ban
Ki-moon &
Stephen
Harper, Israel
& fissile
material not
shown
They
praised "L.40
rev.
1" to Inner
City Press, by
its Spanish
title "Tratado
de
prohibicion de
la produccion
de material
fissionable
para la
fabricacion de
armas
nucleares o
otros
dispositivos
explosivos
nucleares."
While
Canada seeks
to keep the
two votes
separate -- in
voting against
L.2 [101] "The
Risk of
nuclear
proliferation
in the Middle
East, Canada
was joined
only by the
US, Israel,
Micronesia and
the Marshall
Islands -- it
represents a
foreign policy
"at war with
itself," as
one
First
Committee
diplomat
described it
to Inner City
Press. Watch
this
site.
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