Nuclear policy

Active diplomacy ahead of nuclear summit

Sabre-rattling from North Korea, the nuclear agreement with Iran and the fear of stolen radioactive Material are topics of the nuclear security summit. Host Obama took the time before the start of the conference talks.

US President Barack Obama (left) in conversation with India’s Prime modes

He met with South Korean President Park Geun Hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. After the interview, Barack Obama said it was important that the international community would implement against North Korea imposed sharp UN sanctions. Pyongyang must be held to his provocations. The strictly secretive Communist country threatened almost daily with Nukes.

Also with the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, Obama said. Then he said both were determined to achieve “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” and the application of the UN sanctions. Xi praised in turn, “efficient coordination and communication” with the United States in the “Korean nuclear issue”.

Talks with modi and Hollande

Obama hosted in Washington, to girl the Indian head of government Narendra modi, whose country officially the Atom belongs to. Also a single meeting with the French President, François Hollande, and surprisingly also with Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It had previously welcomed, with the Turkish head of state Obama will not meet at a single call, what had been regarded as an Affront to Erdogan.

In the interview, it went to the “U.S.-Turkish cooperation on issues of regional security, counter-terrorism and Migration,” said the White house in connection. The relations between the two traditional allies USA and Turkey are currently tense due to the Turkish military offensive against Kurdish fighters. In addition, the White house showed in the past few months, always concerned about attacks on freedom of expression and democracy in Turkey.

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At the Meeting of more than 50 heads of state and government focuses on the question of how nuclear Material can be better in front of the access of extremists to be protected. The summit has to get in front of the Background of the jihadists militia “Islamic state” (IS) threat a special importance.

Terrorists of the IS were killed on Tuesday of last week in Brussels, in the case of attacks, at least 32 people. Obama’s Deputy security adviser Ben Rhodes said the reports about the spying of a Belgian nuclear power plant by the IS showed the interest of the terrorists to nuclear Material.

Security experts fear that the extremists group to come in possession of smuggled Plutonium and highly angereichtertem uranium and a so-called dirty bomb, you could build on.

Probably the last summit of this kind

Germany will be represented at the Meeting in Washington of Secretary of defense Ursula of the Leyen (CDU). It is the fourth and probably the last summit of this kind. Nuclear safety is a core Obama had called the summit format in 2009 in Prague to life concerns. Russia takes no part in Washington. Obama had issued in 2009, the long-term goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world, the project has remained a Vision.

haz/qu (dpa, afp, rtr)