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As leaders from nearly 50 countries meet |
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in Washington for a major summit on Nuclear Security, |
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Ukraine has pledged to eliminate stockpile |
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of highly enriched uranium by 2012. |
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Ukraine will also convert several nuclear research facilities |
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to use low enriched uranium. |
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The summit, the biggest international meeting |
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hosted by the US since 1945, |
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has been called by president Obama. |
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Our diplomatic correspondent |
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Jonathan Marcus reports from Washington. |
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The timing may have been choreographed |
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for the decision by the Ukraine authorities |
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is just the sort of news president Barack Obama wants to hear. |
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This summit is all about securing stocks of fissile material, |
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highly enriched uranium and plutonium |
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could potentially be used by terrorists |
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to build a nuclear bomb. |
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US officials said that Ukraine has sufficient highly enriched uranium |
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for several nuclear weapons. |
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This will be removed |
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with some help from the United States. |
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This is a precedent Obama |
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would like other countries to follow |
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and just to underscore the gravity of the potential threat. |
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John Briton, a senior US counter-terrorism official, |
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has warned that al-Qaeda |
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has been seeking material |
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for a nuclear bomb |
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for over 15 years |
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and that interest remains strong. |