Israel to join key European atomic Org.
Israel has signed an agreement to upgrade its ties with the European particle physics laboratory and become an associate member in the center.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, announced on Friday that it has admitted Tel Aviv as an associate member, pending ratification by the Israeli regime’s parliament, the Knesset.
The Geneva-based organization, famed for its giant atomic collider beneath the Swiss-French border, has 20 members, with the Tel Aviv regime due to become its first non-European affiliate.
CERN membership would openly allow Israeli companies to conduct contract work for the major Western nuclear laboratory. The development comes despite an adamant and persisting Israeli refusal to join any international nuclear regulatory and non-proliferation organization.
Israeli physicists have been working for decades at CERN, which has 61 Israeli scientists as registered users. The Israeli regime, meanwhile, enjoys a higher raking in the European nuclear institution, compared to the United States, which only possesses an observer status at the major research agency.
Moreover, Israel is widely believed to be in possession of over 200 nuclear warheads, something that the regime has never denied but refuses to confirm, in following with its official policy of maintaining a nuclear ambiguity.
Admitting Israel to the group as an associate member after a minimum two-year waiting period could prove controversial, however, as several British and South African academics recently called for a boycott of collaboration with the Tel Aviv regime.
The boycott demand comes in response to ongoing conflicts between Israel and Palestinians over a number of issues, particularly the Israeli opposition to a Palestinian bid to win official recognition as an independent state at the United Nations as well as the Tel Aviv regime’s continued expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
Source: presstv.ir
