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Wide of Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau walking to podium at international conference on civilian nuclear energy2. Mid of audience 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Infrastructure Minister:\"Nuclear power can be an...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau walking to podium at international conference on civilian nuclear energy\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of audience \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Infrastructure Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Nuclear power can be an area for regional cooperation with the objective of promoting peace. The nuclear industry has recently begun witnessing the emergence of worldwide renaissance. While the development of nuclear energy is hardly desirable, it is imperative to minimise proliferation risks, especially those associated with the nuclear fuel cycle technologies.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of audience \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Infrastructure Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Naturally, all nuclear power reactors to be built in Israel will be subject to international safeguards as well as appropriate physical protection measures.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Audience\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad on stage\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Faysal Mekdad, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We appreciate the position stated by (French) President (Nicolas) Sarkozy that the peaceful application of nuclear energy should not be monopolised by the few who own their, or this technology but it should be available equally for all countries.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mekdad leaving conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. Landau speaking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Infrastructure Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e(in response to Syria''s interest in developing nuclear energy) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I do not wish to mention specific countries which are in the Middle East but I believe that at least you need to have in a country responsible leadership that thinks in, I would say, the footsteps of the values of democratic countries that is also following all of the measures and all of the precautions which are taken in order to safeguard and make sure that all of the energy power plants that will built, will be used for peaceful means.\" \u003cbr/\u003e12. Cutaway of camera screen showing Landau\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Infrastructure Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I speak about peaceful challenge, I speak about all of the necessary safeguards, I speak about total transparency, as far as whatever you do in the development of such future nuclear power plants. When it comes to Iran, you have a country that openly speaks about the destruction of a United Nations member state. And if they develop nuclear capabilities and at the same time also develop ballistic missile capabilities that have in its range Europe and on the drawing boards also a third generation of ballistic missiles that reaches the coast of the United States, what does a poor country in the Middle East have to put so much economic resources instead of feeding its own people unless they have other ambitions, purposes on their mind?\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of delegates in hall\u003cbr/\u003eMideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new international attention to its secretive nuclear activities.\u003cbr/\u003eBoth countries laid out their hopes at an international conference on civilian nuclear energy at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. \u003cbr/\u003eCivilian nuclear energy contributes far less to global warming than the burning of fossil fuels but worries many because of the risks of long-term waste storage and the possibility of proliferation.\u003cbr/\u003eIsraeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau called Israel''s need for nuclear energy \"imminent\" but gave no timeline for an atomic power plant.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an interview on the sidelines of the conference, Landau said his country would open up any nuclear plants to international inspections - but said he saw no reason for his country to allow inspectors into what are believed to be nuclear weapons sites, or to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.\u003cbr/\u003eLandau''s announcement on Tuesday could complicate US-led efforts to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to cooperate with international nuclear inspectors. \u003cbr/\u003eTehran says its uranium enrichment activities are peaceful but several world powers suspect it is seeking weapons.\u003cbr/\u003eIran and North Korea, whose nuclear programme has also drawn international scorn, were not invited to the conference.\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael has never openly acknowledged being a nuclear power, following a policy it calls \"nuclear ambiguity.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLandau stood firm against Iran''s nuclear plans. \u003cbr/\u003e\"When it comes to Iran, you have a country that openly speaks about the destruction of a United Nations member state (Israel),\" Landau said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Why does a poor country in the Middle East have to put so much economic resources (into nuclear activities) instead of feeding its own people, unless they have other ambitions, purposes on their mind?\"\u003cbr/\u003eMinutes after Landau spoke at the conference, another of Israel''s rivals, Syria, expressed nuclear interest.\u003cbr/\u003eSyrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad said the peaceful application of nuclear energy should not be \"monopolised by the few that own this technology but should be available equally for all countries.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMekdad did not elaborate on specific nuclear plans.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Israeli minister, asked about Syria''s proposal, said any nuclear-energised country needs to have \"responsible leadership that is also following all the measures and all of the precautions ... in order to safeguard and make sure that all of the energy power plants that will built, will be used for peaceful means.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2008, Israeli warplanes struck a Syrian site the US alleged was a plutonium-producing reactor under construction secretly with help from North Korea. \u003cbr/\u003eSyria has maintained the site was an unused military installation.\u003cbr/\u003eBetween the two countries, Israel is seen as closer to actually developing nuclear energy in terms of know-how and infrastructure.\u003cbr/\u003eLandau said nuclear plants built in Israel will be subject to strict safety and security controls, and even said his country would like to build them in cooperation with scientists and engineers from \"our Arab neighbours.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe did not elaborate.\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael currently uses natural gas and coal, blamed in part for global warming, to produce electricity.\u003cbr/\u003eThe idea of generating nuclear energy has been floating around for years in Israel. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2007, one of Landau''s predecessors said he was working on a plan to build a nuclear power plant in Israel''s southern Negev desert.\u003cbr/\u003eLandau met several months ago with the French Energy Minister 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