Obama to open unprecedented nuclear summit Monday

www.thenews.com.pk	Obama to open unprecedented nuclear summit Monday
	Updated at: 0700 PST, Sunday, April 11, 2010
	WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will call for unprecedented global action to secure nuclear stocks and keep weapons grade material out of the hands of extremists, at a two-day summit opening Monday. The White House says Obama called the 47-nation conference to put together the most coordinated effort yet to tackle what one adviser called the most dangerous security threat haunting America, and the rest of the world. "It is absolutely fundamental to view this summit with the starting point of the grave nature of the threat of nuclear terrorism," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy US national security advisor. "We know that terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, are pursuing the materials to build a nuclear weapon, and we know that they have the intent to use one." The nuclear security summit -- the biggest gathering of world leaders led by a US president since 1945 -- marks Obama's boldest effort yet to exercise global leadership on one of his principal foreign policy themes, non-proliferation. Obama wants fellow leaders to agree to his timeframe of securing all nuclear materials within four years and a final summit communique will likely include calls for tougher prosecutions of traffickers in weapons grade materials.

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