(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Shaul Chorev, head of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, told the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on Wednesday: "The concept of a region free of WMD that has never been put to the test even in the most peaceful regions of the world is certainly much less applicable to the current volatile and hostile Middle East region." "Any attempt to reach this goal requires a significant transformation of regional trends and the creation of some elementary preconditions." Chorev listed three preconditions: First, that such a process be launched only when peaceful relations exist for a reasonable period of time; second, that the call for this zone come from within the region; and third, that it not be imposed from the outside. Obviously, he said, these conditions do not presently exist.
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