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"There is a sense that the United States has become too arrogant, too dominant, too self-centered," says Carter
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WASHINGTON,
November 16 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Former U.S. president
Jimmy Carter, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, called Friday,
November 15, for disarmament by the United States, which has taken the
lead in urging countries such as North Korea and Iraq to destroy their
weapons of mass destruction.
"One
of the things that the
United States
government has not done is to try to comply with and enforce
international efforts targeted to prohibit the arsenals of biological
weapons that we ourselves have," Carter said on CNN's Larry King
Live program broadcast late Friday.
Carter
also said the
United States
has given many nations around the world cause for resentment and scorn.
"There
is a sense that the United States has become too arrogant, too dominant,
too self-centered, proud of our wealth, believing that we deserve to be
the richest and most powerful and influential nation in the world,"
the 78-year-old former president stressed.
"I
think they feel that we don't really care about them, which is quite
often true."
Carter
also called for more stringent efforts by
Washington
"to reduce and enforce the agreement to eliminate chemical weapons,
and the same way with nuclear weapons," Agence France-Presse (AFP)
reported Saturday, November 16.
"The
major powers need to set an example," Carter said, as the
United States
confronts
Iraq
over its possession of such banned weapons.
"Quite
often the big countries that are responsible for the peace of the world
set a very poor example for those who might hunger for the esteem or the
power or the threats that they can develop from nuclear weapons
themselves," the former
US
president stressed.
"I
don't have any doubt that it's that kind of atmosphere that has led to
the nuclearization, you might say, of
India
and
Pakistan
," he said.
Carter,
who will receive the Nobel prize on December 10 in
Oslo
,
Norway
, for his efforts in seeking negotiated settlements to head off violent
conflict, also noted that the
United States
gives only one-thousandth of its gross national product for
international assistance, while the average European country gives four
times as much.
"For
every time an American gives a dollar, a citizen of
Norway
gives 17 dollars," he said.
"Foreign
aid in this country has a bad name, but in other countries, it's a right
thing for the government to do.
"And
that's where we at the Carter Center quite often have to turn," the
former president said, referring to the Atlanta-based Carter Center he
founded some 20 years ago, and which now operates humanitarian projects
in 65 countries.
Carter
had repeatedly spoken out against unilateral
U.S.
military action against
Iraq
,
saying any move must be made through the United Nations.
"I
would have voted 'no'," he told CNN Thursday, October 10, when
asked about congressional resolutions authorizing President George W.
Bush to order "necessary and appropriate" force against
Iraq
if the United Nations fails to disarm
Iraq
.
"I
think there is no way that we can avoid the obligation to work through
the United Nations Security Council, to wait until we get that
condemnation of (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein, to force him through
the United Nations to comply completely with inspections of an unlimited
nature and to make sure we destroy all his weapons of mass destruction
and his ability to produce nuclear weapons in the future," Carter
said.
"But
I think it ought to be done through the United Nations not
unilaterally," said Carter.
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