Article: DISARMAMENT: EGYPT REJECTS U.S. NUCLEAR DEFENSE UMBRELLA

Fareed Mahdy
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-20-2009
CAIRO, Aug. 20, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The spectre of a U.S. nuclear
defense umbrella for the Middle East haunted the U.S.- Egyptian
summit this week.
In the run-up to President Hosni Mubarak's first Washington
visit in five years, both the Egyptian leader and his senior aides
categorically rejected an undeclared U.S. offer to guarantee
defense of the region against atomic weapons as part of a
comprehensive Middle East peace plan.
A nuclear defense umbrella is usually used for the security
alliances of the United States with non-nuclear states such as
Japan, South Korea, much of Europe, Turkey, Canada, and Australia,
originating with the ...

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