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| [00:00.00] | As leaders from nearly 50 countries meet |
| [00:02.30] | in Washington for a major summit on Nuclear Security, |
| [00:04.80] | Ukraine has pledged to eliminate stockpile |
| [00:07.85] | of highly enriched uranium by 2012. |
| [00:10.45] | Ukraine will also convert several nuclear research facilities |
| [00:13.90] | to use low enriched uranium. |
| [00:15.90] | The summit, the biggest international meeting |
| [00:18.34] | hosted by the US since 1945, |
| [00:20.74] | has been called by president Obama. |
| [00:22.97] | Our diplomatic correspondent |
| [00:24.55] | Jonathan Marcus reports from Washington. |
| [00:26.48] | The timing may have been choreographed |
| [00:29.03] | for the decision by the Ukraine authorities |
| [00:30.86] | is just the sort of news president Barack Obama wants to hear. |
| [00:33.97] | This summit is all about securing stocks of fissile material, |
| [00:37.73] | highly enriched uranium and plutonium |
| [00:40.17] | could potentially be used by terrorists |
| [00:42.62] | to build a nuclear bomb. |
| [00:44.09] | US officials said that Ukraine has sufficient highly enriched uranium |
| [00:48.02] | for several nuclear weapons. |
| [00:49.54] | This will be removed |
| [00:51.12] | with some help from the United States. |
| [00:52.64] | This is a precedent Obama |
| [00:54.68] | would like other countries to follow |
| [00:56.26] | and just to underscore the gravity of the potential threat. |
| [00:59.51] | John Briton, a senior US counter-terrorism official, |
| [01:02.37] | has warned that al-Qaeda |
| [01:04.40] | has been seeking material |
| [01:05.31] | for a nuclear bomb |
| [01:06.18] | for over 15 years |
| [01:07.60] | and that interest remains strong. |
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