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And pragmatic. and this is a goal that can be achieved. third, we reaffirm that it is the fundamental responsibility of nations consistent with their international obligations to maintain effective security of the nuclear materials and facilities under our control. this includes strengthening national laws and policies and fully implementing the commitments we have agreed to. and fourth, we recognized that even as we fulfill our national responsibilities, this threat cannot be addressed by count...

Terrorism is one of the greatest threats to global security, to our collective security. and thats why one year ago today -- one year ago in prague i called for a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in four years. this is one part of a broader comprehensive agenda, that the united states is pursuing, including reducing our nuclear arsenal and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. >> pretty broad ajgenda here. suzanne malveaux, great to see you. ...

Global and international community. keep in mind we also have a number of international conventions that have been put in place. not all of them have been ratified. in fact the united states needs to work on a couple of these conventions dealing with the issues of nuclear terrorism and trafficking. but what this does is sets out a bold plan and what im encouraged about is the fact weve already seen efforts that had been delayed for years and in some cases since the end of the cold war finally co...

Pragmatic. this is a goal that can be achieved. third, we reaffirmed it is the fundamental responsibility of nations consistent with international obligations to maintain effective security of the nuclear materials and facilities under our control. this includes strengthening national laws and policies and fully implementing commitments we agreed to. fourth we recognize as we fulfill national responsibilities this threat couldnt be addressed in isolation to we committed ourselves to a effective ...

So weve made real progress in building a safer world. i would also note that the united states has made its own commitments. we are strengthening security at our own nuclear facilities and will invite the iaea to review the security at our neutron research center. this reflects our commitment to sharing the best practices needed in our global efforts. were seeking significant funding increases for programs to prevent nuclear proliferation and trafficking. and today, the united states is joining ...

Senator luger began an initiative to make sure that their nuclear material is well secured and we really should take that nun-luger initiative to the rest of the world so that nations can make those commitments and we can make sure that all that nuclear material is secure. >> i want to talk to you for a minute after the break whos not here and why those are important. but of those who are here, obviously the president is talking to the president of china, the president of russia, the prime minis...

>> reporter: what we are dealing with here is trying to get commitments for all nations to deal with the existing loose nuclear materials, not stopping the creation of highly enriched uranium or plutonium in the future. india and pakistan have nuclear weapons and their own civilian nuclear programs. increases in the capability of the indians, can use their older plants to create more weapons grade materials. pakistan what you are going to produce in the future we are trying to get agreements on ...

Private companies, private industry. what do they do when it comes to their legal system, the laws in place. are they cracking down on smuggling activity? also, very important here is the materials themselves. its two different things -- plutonium and highly enriched uranium. what do they do with this dangerous stuff? chile, for instance, says we cant deal with it. well give it to the united states. you deal with it. thats an idea tossed about there. these are the kinds of things you will hear i...

White house press secretary robert gibbs. whats one big issue lurking behind this, we write about this today is the corruption issue. ambassador eikenberry and others have been really hammering karzai to live up to his commitments, to crack down on corruption. there are a number of big cases in the pipeline right now and karzai is balking. hes getting a lot of political pressure not to move and as one u.s. official said, is caught in a vice on this issue. >> yet, over the weekend in a series of ...

Something done with the pakistanis in. >> you need political will. we know what to do. we have the programs. we secure seven reactors per year that use rich uranium as a deal. chile, handed over a bombs worth of bomb material. we have commitments from ukraine today. there are 100 such civilian research facilities. accelerate that pace, get the individuals. some of these countries dont believe the threat is this serious. some of them dont want to spend the money to secure materials. get them all ...