JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn from a nuclear security summit in Washington next week, fearing Muslim delegates will demand Israel give up its assumed atomic arsenal.
Netanyahu, who plans to send a deputy and two senior advisers to the April 12-13 conference instead, cancelled "after learning that some countries including Egypt and Turkey plan to say Israel must sign the NPT", an Israeli official said.
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