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UN Nuclear Body Rejects Arab Move to Censure Israel

   VOA News 24 September 2010

   Members of a U.N. nuclear monitoring agency rejected an Arab-sponsored
   resolution  on  Friday  calling on Israel to join a global anti-atomic
   weapons treaty.
   The  United  States  had urged countries to vote down the symbolically
   important  although  non-binding  resolution.  Washington  warned  the
   resolution could derail broader efforts to ban nuclear warheads in the
   Middle East.
   Forty-six delegations voted in favor of the resolution, 51 against and
   23  others  abstained  in  the  general  assembly  of  the  151-member
   International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
   It   had  approved  a  similar  resolution  expressing  concern  about
   "Israel's Nuclear Capabilities" in a close vote last year.
   Israel warned the Vienna gathering earlier on Friday that the Arab-led
   effort to single out the Jewish state could deal a "fatal blow" to any
   cooperation on improving security in the Middle East.

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   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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