US calls for fresh approach to nuclear sanctions

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GENEVA (AFP) — The United States on Monday called for a fresh approach to sanctions for countries determined to develop nuclear weapons, saying extra incentives were needed to dissuade countries from pursuing nuclear energy technologies.

US special representative Christopher Ford called on the world to wake up to the "challenge" of a fresh nuclear arms race triggered by Iran and North Korea, at a gathering to prepare the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's next review conference in 2010.

"The international community has been struggling with proliferation challenges from Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons ambitions that so far do not yet seem to have been abandoned," he said.

He called on countries signed up to the 1970 treaty, renewed indefinitely in...