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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Obama, world leaders work to stop nuclear spread AP
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and presidents, prime ministers and other top officials from 47 countries start work Monday on a battle plan to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. Confronting what he calls the “single biggest threat to U.S. security,” Obama is looking for global help in his goal of ensuring all nuclear materials worldwide are secured from theft or diversion within four years. On the eve of what would be the largest assembly of world leaders hosted by an American president since 1945 — the San Francisco conference to found the United Nations — Obama said nuclear materials in the hands of al-Qaida or another terrorist group “could change the security landscape in this country and around the world for years to come.” While sweeping or even bold new strategies were unlikely to emerge from the two-day gathering, Obama declared himself pleased with what he heard in warm-up meetings Sunday with the leaders of Kazakhstan, South Africa, India and Pakistan. “I feel very good at this stage in the degree of commitment and a sense of urgency that I have seen from the world leaders so far on this issue,” Obama said. “We think we can make enormous progress on this, and this then becomes part and parcel of the broader focus that we’ve had over the last sev-
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US President Barack Obama makes a statement during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
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eral weeks.” He was referring to what had gone before this, the fourth leg of his campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The United States is the only country to use the weapons, two bombs dropped on Japan to force its surrender in World War II. The high-flown ambition, which the president admits will probably not be reality in his lifetime, began a year ago in Prague when he laid out plans for significant nuclear reductions and a nuclear-weaponsfree world. In the meantime, he has approved a new nuclear policy for the United States, promising last week to reduce America’s nuclear arsenal, refrain from nuclear tests and not use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them. North Korea and Iran were not included in that pledge because they do not cooperate with other countries on nonproliferation standards. That was Tuesday, and two days later, on the anniversary of the Prague speech, Obama flew back to the Czech Republic capital where he and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a new treaty that reduces each side’s deployed nuclear arsenal to 1,550 weapons.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
TOKYO – Public support for Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has sunk below 30 percent, in part because of a simmering row with Washington over a US base, according to opinion polls released Monday. One poll found that half of the voters surveyed said Hatoyama should resign if he fails to hammer out a solution to the dispute over where the controversial base on the island of Okinawa should be relocated. The surveys were released as the centre-left leader headed to Wash-
ington for an international nuclear summit, where he said he hoped to raise the base issue in informal talks with US President Barack Obama. A poll by private broadcaster Nippon Television said the approval rating for Hatoyama’s seven-monthold government had fallen to to 28.6 percent, down 7.6 points from the previous month. Almost half of the more than 2,000 voters questioned by Nippon TV said Hatoyama should step down if he cannot find a solution to the row over where to relocate the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Another poll by TV Asahi
put support for Hatoyama’s cabinet at 28.5 percent, down 1.5 percent from last month. Hatoyama’s government has also come under attack over political donations scandals and its management of the economy, but most criticism has focused on the base row and the premier’s perceived dithering on the issue. Ties between Tokyo and Washington have been strained by the question of where to move the base, now located in an urban area on Okinawa where many residents complain of aircraft noise and other problems. Continued on page 6