At
UN, Dutch and
Aussies Lavish
Praise on
Obama, Even on
Test Ban
Treaty
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 27
-- Even on the
Comprehensive
Test Ban
Treaty,
which the US
has not
ratified, the
foreign
ministers of
Australia and
the
Netherlands
replied to
Inner City
Press'
question on
Thursday
with fulsome
praise of
Barack Obama.
Bob
Carr of
Australia
replied, "I
would commend
president
Obama for
his
leadership,
and urge the
US Congress to
see this as
the world
sees it."
Many
here have that
urging for the
US Congress.
Inner
City Press
asked, for a
second time,
if the changes
in Egypt, from
Mubarak to
Morsi, made
that country
ratifying the
CTBT any more
likely.
Dutch
foreign
minister Uri
Rosenthal
ignored the
Egypt
question, but
offered, "on
the role of
the US, I
noticed that
the Obama
administration
actually has
been very
active on
nuclear
security...
held in Seoul,
and will be
held in the
Netherlands in
2014, very
much
at the
initiative of
the president
of the United
States."
On
the changes in
Egypt and the
CTBT Carr
replied, "I'm
not sure I
can comment
usefully on
that," a
formulation he
used a moment
later on a
question about
Article 7 of
the Treaty.
And so it goes
at
the UN. Video
here.
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