Washington, DC - Egypt hopes the administration of US President Barack Obama will adopt an “unbiased” approach during the Washington Nuclear Security Summit which is held in the US capital Monday, an Egyptian diplomat said Sunday. "The US should be unbiased to any country regardless of its relations with it," added Egypt's Ambassador in Washington Sameh Shukri said Sunday. Shukri was referring to Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declared he reversed his plans to attend the summit after learning that Egypt and Turkey intend to raise the issue of Israel's presumed nuclear arsenal. The two-day conference, which begins Monday, is billed by the White House as the biggest conference of its type in the US since the 1945 conference to create the United Nations. The arrival of leaders of more than 40 countries, including presidents Hu Jintao of China and Manmohan Singh of India, is expected to snarl traffic and attract demonstrations. "The Egyptian document to be forwarded to the conference focuses on the necessity to adopt a new mechanism to watch and control the nuclear materials with no discrimination among world nations," Shukri said Sunday. Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit will head the Egyptian delegation to the conference. "The Egyptian document urges Israel to sign the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destructive and allow the nuclear watchdog to review its nuclear activities and establishments," Shukri said. Hossam Zaki, the Foreign Ministry ‘s spokesman, said that fighting terrorism and securing the nuclear installations should not overshadow the rights of the nations to have peaceful nuclear facilities. Many countries are highly sensitive to foreign powers' intrusions in their nuclear programmes, for example, and would resist international efforts to force them to give up closely held information or allow inspectors to monitor their facilities. India, China, and Russia, for example, have been wary of international efforts to learn about their nuclear programmes.
