| President Chávez affirms after nuclear agreement with Russia |
“I will not do atomic bomb” |
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| The president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev (right), and his Venezuelan companion Hugo Chávez smile in Moscow, after the signature of a credit line to acquire Russian armament. PHOTO: Dmitry Astakhov - LAUGHS Novosti / AP |
Washington Hispanic
Agencies
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, wants to join the club of the nuclear energy and has looked for Russia so that it helps him to begin.
The Venezuelan leader already rejected the worries of the critics on his nuclear ambitions, offering guarantees of which his targets are pacific and which Venezuela simply continues the steps of other South American nations that use the atomic energy.
Nevertheless, his project continues in planning phase and it still faces a series of practical obstacles. It is probable that it needs thousands of million dollars, as well as the technology and the experience that Venezuela does not have yet.
Russia offered his help to fill this gap, and Chávez announced that both countries have created an atomic energy commission.
“ I say it before the world: Venezuela is going to begin the process to develop the nuclear energy, but we are not going to do (an) atomic bomb, so they are not going to be bothering us later... with a war and a thing like the one that they have against Iran, no”, affirmed Chávez on Sunday, the 13th.
The chief is an allied strait of Iran and defender of the nuclear program of this country, while the United States and other countries accuse Teheran of having a secret nuclear weapons program.
His government also has acquired more than 4.000 million dollars in weapon to Russia in the last years, and the secretary of the American State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressed on Tuesday, the 15th his worry the armament buys on the part of Venezuela, affirming that Venezuela “would have to put into practice procedures to guarantee that the weapon that he buys insurgents are not transferred to groups or to illegal organizations like the bands dedicated to the traffic of drugs and other cartels”.
Although Clinton did not mention the nuclear matter, the spokesman of the Department of the State, Ian Kelly, in answer to the question of a reporter if to the United States possible transferences of nuclear material would worry him between Iran and Venezuela, Kelly answered: "The brief answer to that is ‘yes, worries us’”.
Chávez revealed to have discussed the nuclear matter the previous week with the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Moscow.
“ Russia us goes to support for half of the street (without concealing anything) ”, Chávez emphasized. “Proper Putin has said it: ' We go to support Venezuela so that it has nuclear energy" ”, it added.
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