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Belarus will not send its enriched uranium to the Russia or USA stores

Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko , ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire, 20 April 2010, Belarus has no plans to build a “dirty” nuclear bomb but no one can take its enriched uranium stockpiles away from it, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.”Russia and the United States are telling us – give us your enriched uranium. We will not give anything away. Everything here is under IAEA control. Russia tells America: Calm down, we will take it from there [Belarus]. No one will take anything without our consent. We will not allow that,” he said in a state-of-the-nation address.

Lukashenko added that his strained relations with Russia and the United States were due, among other things, to its reluctance to give away enriched uranium.

Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire

April 22, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Belarus, politics international | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear weapons, plutonium, radiation, uranium