Arabs to avoid targeting Israel at UN atom meeting
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Arab states will refrain from targeting Israel over its assumed nuclear arsenal at a global meeting of UN atomic agency member countries next week, diplomats said on Thursday, an unexpected gesture of restraint sure to be welcomed by the West.
A senior Arab diplomat said the decision not to single out Israel was designed to give "more room" for two planned meetings to succeed - an International Atomic Energy Agency-hosted forum in November on nuclear weapons-free zones, to be attended by Arab states and Israel, and an Egyptian-proposed conference in 2012 to discuss creating such a zone in the Middle East. (Reuters)
