Summit agrees to protect nuclear stocks 'in four years' (BBC)

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Summit agrees to protect nuclear stocks 'in four years'

The leaders of almost 50 countries have pledged to secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years.

US President Barack Obama said the joint action plan agreed at a summit in Washington would make a real contribution to a safer world.

The plan calls for every nation to safeguard nuclear stocks and keep material out of terrorists' hands.

Earlier, Russia and the US signed an agreement to dispose of 68 tonnes of surplus weapons-grade plutonium.

The combined stockpiles - 34 tonnes from each country - are said to be enough to make 17,000 nuclear warheads. US officials said it would be used as fuel in civilian reactors to generate electricity.

The US will provide $400m of the funding for the disposal of Russia's plutonium, which Moscow estimates will cost up to $2.5bn (£1.63bn).

Several other countries - including Mexico, Chile and Ukraine - had earlier agreed to give up their stocks of highly-enriched uranium.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8618915.stm

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Algeria,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,
Belgium,Brazil,Canada,Chile,China,
Czech Republic,Egypt,European Union,Finland
France,Georgia,Germany,India,Indonesia,Israel,Italy
Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan, South Korea,Malaysia,Mexico,
Morocco,The Netherlands,New Zealand,Norway,Nigeria,Pakistan,
Philippines,Poland,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Singapore,South Africa,
Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Thailand,Turkey,Ukraine, United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom,Vietnam. What no Palau?

The coalition of the willing revisited. Bush puts on phony news conferences Obama puts on phony summits and the crowd cheers!