The Egyptian-led effort — rejected by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada — would have convened a regional conference on making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone.
The United States will ensure that any text coming out of a conference reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty meets Israel’s interests, the White House told JTA.
Given the delicate state of relations between the new administrations in Washington and Jerusalem, an American statement last week about the need for Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty touched a raw nerve.