[NukeNet] Nuclear Szichophrenia

[Bill Smirnow]

>One of the main jobs in her new post will be to help implement a nuclear
energy and nonproliferation declaration >initialed by U.S. President George
W. Bush and outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin last July after talks
in >Kennebunkport, Maine.
>The two leaders pledged to expand nuclear energy cooperation and make
nuclear power available to other states and >reduce their own strategic
nuclear weapons to the lowest possible levels.

>"The declaration reflects a shared vision of support for expansion of the
use of nuclear energy worldwide in a way >that reduces the risk of nuclear
proliferation," added the statement announcing Wolcott's new job.




http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-nuclear-usa-envoy.html?scp=1&sq=nuclear&st=nyt
U.S. Names Nonproliferation Envoy, Focus on Russia
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By REUTERS
Published: March 14, 2008
Filed at 5:32 p.m. ET

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has appointed U.S. Ambassador
Jackie Wolcott as special envoy for nuclear nonproliferation with the job of
implementing a nuclear energy deal with Russia, the State Department said on
Friday.

Wolcott previously served as U.S. alternate representative at the United
Nations in New York and was a permanent representative to the Conference on
Disarmament in Geneva.

"In this capacity, Ambassador Wolcott will work with counterparts in other
countries to develop international cooperation to strengthen the nuclear
nonproliferation regime," the State Department said of Wolcott's new role.

One of the main jobs in her new post will be to help implement a nuclear
energy and nonproliferation declaration initialed by U.S. President George
W. Bush and outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin last July after talks
in Kennebunkport, Maine.

The two leaders pledged to expand nuclear energy cooperation and make
nuclear power available to other states and reduce their own strategic
nuclear weapons to the lowest possible levels.

"The declaration reflects a shared vision of support for expansion of the
use of nuclear energy worldwide in a way that reduces the risk of nuclear
proliferation," added the statement announcing Wolcott's new job.

The agreement listed 10 ways to fulfill their pledge of broader cooperation
with other countries, including how to deal with spent nuclear fuel, provide
a steady supply of fuel, and ensure financing for the project.

"Those are the three key ones. A lot of work has gone into developing those
aspects of the project," Wolcott said in a telephone interview with Reuters.

She said Russia had also designated a special envoy to deal with the issue
and they had met in Vienna last week and were preparing for more talks next
month.

"We will be working to see how we can make this a practical and concrete
project," she said. "My job is to take it to the next step where we are
dealing with (nuclear fuel) supplier states and recipient countries," she
added.

The goal was to ensure that countries using nuclear fuel did it the "right
way" and did not expand the fuel cycle to producing nuclear weapons.

Wolcott will not handle the North Korea nuclear file, which will still be
dealt with by senior State Department official Chris Hill while Iran's
nuclear dossier will be the responsibility of incoming Undersecretary of
State, William Burns.

In their bid to prevent states like North Korea and Iran from developing
nuclear weapons, the United States and some other nuclear weapons states
have been accused of a two-tiered system in which some states are allowed by
international law to have atomic weapons and other states are denied that
right.

(Reporting by Sue Pleming; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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