Burma’s military junta denied it is developing a nuclear weapons programme, decrying such allegations as groundless and politically motivated.
State radio and television news reported on Friday the foreign ministry’s denial, which claimed that anti-government groups in collusion with the media had launched the allegations with the goal of “hindering Burma’s democratic process and to tarnish the political image of the government.”
A week earlier, the Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma, a Burma exile news service, charged that the junta, aided by North Korea, is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme with the aim of developing a bomb and long-range missiles.
It said its conclusions were based on a five-year study and revelations by a recent Burma Army defector. The report was issued as a US Senator postponed a trip to Burma, saying it was a bad time for such a visit.
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Mossad agent in Dubai plot arrested in Poland
Berlin, June 12: Polish authorities have arrested at the request of Germany a suspected Mossad agent thought to have played a role in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas commander, German prosecutors said on Saturday.
“He was arrested in Warsaw and is suspected of being involved in illegally obtaining a (German) passport,” a spokesman for German federal prosecution said, confirming a report in German magazine Der Spiegel. “It’s now up to the Germans to decide if they are going to hand him over to Germany.” According to an article to be published in Der Spiegel, the suspect, identified as Uri Brodsky, was arrested early June.
—AFP