Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:40:21 -0400
 
     21 April 1996 (Reuter) - About 300 people, meeting the
day after a summit of world leaders in Moscow on nuclear
safety, 10 years after the Chernobyl disaster, protested in
Paris on Sunday at French plans for storing nuclear waste and
symbolically buried some fake radioactive barrels near the
Eiffel Tower, police said. The demonstrators, including
members of the opposition Socialist party and the Greenpeace
environmental group, said the authorities proposed to set up
for laboratories to study sites for burying nuclear waste in
France.  


     21 April 1996 (Reuter) - Pope John Paul said on Sunday
the 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster should
inspire politicians to ensure such accidents cannot happen
again. He thanked those people around the world who had shown
solidarity with the victims of Chernobyl and who had helped
Ukrainian children affected by the disaster. "May God grant
comfort to those who are suffering and inspire responsibility
in those who hold decision-making power so that such tragedies
can never happen again," he said during his weekly address in
St Peter's Square. 


     21 April 1996 (Reuter) - Chinese Foreign Minister Qian
Qichen insisted on Sunday that Beijing, under U.S. pressure
for its sales of sensitive nuclear technology to Pakistan,
would never violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT). "The Chinese position is clear," Qian said "We signed a
treaty on the (non) proliferation of nuclear weapons, and
never will we attempt it (proliferation)." Russia signed on to
the full test ban on Friday while hosting a summit of G-7
leaders on the uses of nuclear technology.


     21 April 1996 (Reuter) - With a pledge to make nuclear
safety an "absolute priority," world leaders have promised
real action to prevent more Chernobyls and to stop more people
acquiring the power of the atomic bomb. "The summit was an
absolute disaster when it comes to these questions of nuclear
safety," said Joshua Handler of Greenpeace. "The big losers
are the citizens of the former Eastern bloc who will have to
endure a higher level of nuclear risk than their counterparts
in the West," said Thomas Cochran of the U.S. Natural
Resources Defence Council.  


     20 April 1996 (Reuter) - U.S. President Bill Clinton
stopped off to buy a loaf of bread during a hectic walk
through Moscow on Saturday, before strolling round a cemetery
where Stalin's wife and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lie
buried. After a summit on nuclear issues at the Kremlin,
Clinton went for a two-block stroll down busy Nikolskaya
Street, just off Red Square, shaking hands with startled
Russians, waving and generating considerable commotion. 

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