[ti:Seeking to Secure All Nuclear Materials in Four Years]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:06.24]in VOA Special English.
[00:09.03]World leaders agreed this week
[00:12.06]to protect all nuclear materials
[00:15.25]within four years to stop
[00:18.03]the possibility of nuclear terrorism.
[00:21.48]Leaders from forty-seven countries
[00:24.56]gathered in Washington for President
[00:27.65]Obama's Nuclear Security Summit.
[00:30.98]The president said groups like
[00:33.92]al-Qaida would surely
[00:36.26]use a nuclear weapon if they got one.
[00:39.74]BARACK OBAMA: "All this, in turn,
[00:40.99]requires something else,
[00:42.53]which is something more fundamental.
[00:44.87]It will require a new mindset
[00:46.66]-- that we summon the will,
[00:48.40]as nations and as partners,
[00:50.39]to do what this moment
[00:51.64]in history demands."
[00:52.79]Progress on a work plan
[00:54.53]for securing nuclear materials
[00:56.92]can be discussed when South Korea
[00:59.71]holds the next summit in two years.
[01:03.04]Several nations made individual
[01:06.03]promises, including Ukraine.
[01:08.77]It promised to give up all of
[01:11.76]its highly enriched uranium
[01:13.95]by two thousand twelve.
[01:16.29]The United States and Russia
[01:18.93]signed an agreement to dispose
[01:21.37]of sixty-eight tons
[01:23.36]of weapons-grade plutonium.
[01:26.39]They plan to use the plutonium
[01:28.98]as fuel for civilian nuclear reactors.
[01:33.41]Last week, President Obama
[01:35.85]and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev
[01:39.38]signed a nuclear arms agreement
[01:41.92]in the Czech Republic.
[01:43.91]It calls for America and Russia
[01:46.95]to each deploy a limit of
[01:49.68]one thousand five hundred fifty
[01:52.17]long-distance nuclear weapons
[01:55.06]-- a cut of about thirty percent.
[01:57.55]The new agreement replaces
[01:59.98]the nineteen ninety-one Strategic Arms
[02:03.88]Reduction Treaty, known as START-One.
[02:07.96]The United States Senate
[02:10.30]and Russia's parliament must
[02:12.73]both approve the agreement
[02:14.73]for it to take effect.
[02:16.78]One country that did not attend
[02:19.86]the Nuclear Security Summit was Iran.
[02:23.49]Discussions about Iran's nuclear
[02:26.38]activities have intensified
[02:29.07]among the five permanent
[02:31.46]United Nations Security Council
[02:33.85]members and Germany. U.N. ambassadors
[02:38.04]from the five Council members
[02:40.66]and Germany met two times
[02:43.30]this week in New York.
[02:45.74]The Obama administration is pushing
[02:49.23]for a new U.N. resolution
[02:52.12]with actions against Iran.
[02:55.15]After talks on Wednesday,
[02:57.44]France's ambassador said they were
[03:00.68]starting to negotiate
[03:02.17]on the substance of possible new measures.
[03:06.16]China's ambassador called the talks
[03:09.31]"very constructive" and said
[03:11.90]they will continue.
[03:13.59]He said the six countries
[03:15.88]had a better understanding
[03:17.72]of each other's position.
[03:20.06]In Washington, a military intelligence
[03:24.44]official told a Senate committee
[03:27.12]that Iran could be one year away
[03:31.06]from producing enough highly-enriched
[03:34.49]uranium for a nuclear weapon.
[03:37.72]But another military official said
[03:41.12]Iran would still need three
[03:44.10]to five more years to create such a weapon.
[03:48.58]Iran is holding its own nuclear conference
[03:53.21]in Tehran this Saturday and Sunday.
[03:56.99]The Iranian government says its
[04:00.53]nuclear program is for peaceful,
[04:03.52]civilian purposes only.
[04:06.46]President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told
[04:10.25]Iranian television that Iran
[04:13.04]is seeking cooperation and
[04:16.32]negotiation with world powers.
[04:19.31]But he also said his country was
[04:23.45]willing to deal with a plan that
[04:26.29]protects Iran's rights, includes
[04:29.97]its independence and leaves
[04:32.71]out the nuclear issue.
[04:35.14]That's IN THE NEWS
[04:37.33]in VOA Special English.
[04:40.62]I'm Steve Ember.
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