Netanyahu to attend U.S. nuclear security summit

[Jefferson23]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attend the nuclear security summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next week, sources at the Prime Minister's Bureau said Tuesday.

Netanyahu will be accompanied on the trip by the Director-General of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Shaul Horev, and National Security Adviser Uzi Arad, among other officials.

Netanyahu is not expected to hold meetings with Obama during the summit.



More than 40 world leaders are expected to take part in the Washington summit, scheduled for April 12-13, which is expected to discuss disarmament as well as ways to reduce the threat of or terrorist groups and rogue nations from gaining access to nuclear weapons.

A political source in Jerusalem noted that Israel participated in the process of wording the summit's conclusions in order to avoid having the subject of nuclear inspections at Israeli facilities included in any formal statements.

remainder here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1161120.html

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Why would they even invite that lunatic?

All he's going to do is rant and rave about his paranoid delusions about Iran, while more than likely refusing to discuss at all the nuclear weapons that Israel "allegedly" has (but were not authorized to have in the first place)

[Jefferson23]

2. Whats matta, aren't you anxious to hear Bibi's honest reply to these

statements: "Sources are also expecting that some leaders,including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, will give speeches during the summit condemning Israel's nuclear arsenal and urging Israel to open its facilities to nuclear inspectors and join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."