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  • U.S.-Armenian Joint Action Plan On Combating Nuclear Smuggling

    U.S.-ARMENIAN JOINT ACTION PLAN ON COMBATING NUCLEAR SMUGGLING

    US Department of State
    July 14 2008
    DC

    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Armenian Foreign Minister
    Edward Nalbandian signed on July 14, 2008, the "Joint Action Plan
    between the Government of the United States of America and the
    Government of the Republic of Armenia on Combating Smuggling of
    Nuclear and Radioactive Materials."

    This political agreement expresses the intention of the two governments
    to cooperate to increase the capabilities of the Republic of Armenia
    to prevent, detect, and respond effectively to attempts to smuggle
    nuclear or radioactive materials. It specifies twenty-eight agreed
    steps that the two governments intend to be taken for this purpose.

    The governments agree that they will proceed along parallel paths
    in implementing this action plan. The Republic of Armenia intends
    to implement those steps that it is capable of carrying out on
    its own. For those steps where assistance is needed, the United
    States intends to seek to identify sources, from within either
    the U.S. government or the international community, to provide
    such assistance. This assistance would complement and be carefully
    coordinated with the aid the Republic of Armenia is already receiving
    from various U.S. and international assistance programs.

    With this agreement, the U.S. and Armenian governments are
    significantly enhancing their collaborative efforts to combat the
    threat that nuclear or highly radioactive materials could be acquired
    by terrorists or others who would use them to harm us.

    This is the fifth agreement of this nature that has been concluded by
    the U.S. government's Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative. Previous
    agreements were completed with Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the
    Kyrgyz Republic, and the U.S. government intends to conclude similar
    agreements with approximately twenty additional countries where the
    risk of nuclear smuggling is of particular concern. To date, eight
    countries and three international organizations have partnered with
    the U.S. government to provide assistance to support implementation
    of these agreements.
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