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Syria gets UN apology over interpreter's error regarding Israeli strike
United Nations (AFP) Oct 22, 2007 The United Nations has apologized to Syria over an interpreter's error that created the wrong impression that Damascus admitted that an Israeli air strike last month targeted a Syrian nuclear site, a spokesman said Monday. "An apology has been given to the Syrian mission regarding the interpretation error and accepted by them as an unintended mistake," spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement. "The interpreter who was responsible for the unfortunate mistake has been given a note of reprimand," he added. Based on the interpreter's error, a UN transcript last week suggested that a Syrian delegate told the General Assembly's disarmament committee that the September 6 Israeli air strike targeted a nuclear installation in Syria. A review of the delegate's remarks made in Arabic ascertained that he never referred to a nuclear site. The Syrian delegate, Bassam Darwish, issued a statement welcoming the UN apology for the "grave error" which, he said, had caused confusion, leading to political consequences which were used to defame his country and his delegation. The New York Times last week reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a site that Israeli and US intelligence believe was a partly built nuclear reactor possibly modeled after one in North Korea. Citing unnamed US and foreign officials with access to intelligence reports, the report said it appeared Israel carried out the raid to demonstrate its determination to snuff out even a nascent nuclear project. The facility that the Israelis struck in Syria appears to have been much further from completion than the Osirak nuclear reactor that Israel destroyed in Iraq in 1981, the US daily said. Related Links Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
Friction between EU, Egypt over nuclear-free Middle East
Vienna (AFP) Oct 21, 2007The refusal by most EU countries to back Egypt's call for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East at a UN conference last month appears to be causing some friction between Cairo and the 27-nation bloc. |
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