Move to End Cooperation With Israel Hit

VIENNA — The United States and Israel condemned an Arab resolution Thursday calling for an end to international cooperation with Israel on nuclear matters.

The resolution, submited by Syria and other Arab states and referring to the “Israeli nuclear threat,” called for stopping all nuclear cooperation with Israel unless the Jewish state submits all its nuclear facilities to the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The resolution was submitted for debate at the 3Oth general conference of the agency. Similar resolutions have been turned down in previous years after the Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear power plant in 1981.

U.S. Ambassador at Large Walter Kennedy said the resolution is discriminatory and “totally unacceptable.”

“It is a clearly politicized effort to press a regional issue in an inappropriate international forum,” he said.

Chief Israeli delegate David Peleg said, “The exercise behind this draft resolution is a transparent ploy to turn the IAEA into an additional instrument of politically inspired warfare against Israel.”