Anti-proliferation focus to anti-terror exercises
Singapore June 5, 2005 - 1:02AM http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Antiproliferation-focus-to-antiterror-ex ercises/2005/06/05/1117825111343.html# Singapore will host maritime exercises this year aimed at stopping shipments of weapons of mass destruction, the city-state's defence minister said today. The announcement by Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean came shortly after US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld told an Asia-Pacific security conference that impoverished North Korea would "sell anything,"' including its nuclear technology. "A number of countries will come together to work through some of the practices needed'' to prevent weapons proliferation, Teo Chee Hean said on the sidelines of the Singapore conference. He said Japan would participate in the manoeuvres, to be held in August, but did not say what other countries would join. The exercises are part of the US-sponsored Proliferation Security Initiative to block shipments of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as the missiles that could be used to carry them and the materials and equipment needed to make them. Over 60 countries are signatories to the initiative. Earlier today, Mr Rumsfeld said communist North Korea poses a worldwide security threat because of its record of selling missile technology. "One has to assume that they'll sell anything, and that they would be willing to sell nuclear technologies,'' Rumsfeld said. Singapore is one of three countries that straddle the Malacca Strait, through which ships pass to get to the Middle East and Europe. Teo also told reporters he ``wouldn't rule out'' joint Malacca Strait patrols with Malaysia and Indonesia - the other littoral countries along the piracy-wracked waterway - to prevent a terror strike. He said detained members of the South-East Asia terror group Jemaah Islamiah told authorities that the al-Qaeda linked body had ``cased'' ships transiting north of Singapore several years ago. Yesterday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said terrorists had been scouting maritime targets. Observers say the 50,000 commercial vessels that ply the waterway yearly are vulnerable to a seaborne attack from al-Qaeda linked extremists. - AP . All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. 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