Czech Republic urges to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Czech Republic said here Saturday that "it is not possible for some countries to ignore the agreed and respected international standards" when it comes to using atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
"We do not dispute the right of any country to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes but it must do so in a responsible way," President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus said here at the annual general debate of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, which entered its third day here Saturday.
"It is not possible for some countries to ignore the agreed and respected international standards, to threaten stability in their regions and to increase the risks of proliferation," Klaus said.
This past April, the Czech Republic hosted the new START treaty, signed on April 8 in Prague by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, which replaces the 1991 pact that expired in December last year. The treaty stipulates that the number of nuclear warheads be reduced to 1,550 on each side over seven years, while the number of delivery vehicles, both deployed and non-deployed, must not exceed 800.
"We see this treaty as an important step forward and as a visible signal in the efforts to make our complicated world safer, " Klaus said. "Let's hope that it will have a further continuation in the foreseeable future."
START, which stands for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. The treaty was signed on July 31, 1991 and entered into force on Dec. 5, 1994.
The START I treaty expired Dec. 5, 2009. On April 8, 2010, the new START treaty was signed in Prague by Obama and Medvedev.

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