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Thursday, February 17, 2005

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International tension was heightened today by Andorra and Liechtenstein as the two countries announced the signing of a mutual assistance treaty.

The treaty pledges each country to come to the other's aid in the event of a "threat" to its security. This could mean that the United States and its allies might have to attack both countries simultaneously if they wished to prevent the pact coming into effect.

Both the US Commander-in-Chief and Israeli foreign minister Yeshua Gideon expressed their concern at the "radical international destabilisation potentiality" of the treaty.

The Commander-in-Chief said that the pact "might well represent the most serious threat to world peace" since the mutual assistance treaty between Cuba and Venezuela at the beginning of the century.

Even the treaty between Botswana, Swaziland and Rwanda, which threatened world stability by outnumbering America three to one, was not such a "blatantly irresponsible act of antidemocratitude," the Commander-in-Chief said.

The US has declared Andorra and Liechtenstein part of "old Europe" and has repeatedly accused both nations of developing weapons of mass destruction and illicit utilisation of the French language.

"What concerns us is not what Andorra or Liechtenstein might do in two years, three, years, five years or twenty years," said Mr Gideon. "What concerns us is that they have the knowledge for making these weapons which could one day be used against London, Washington or Jerusalem."

The scientific knowledge for making nuclear weapons has been under US government copyright for nearly a decade and a half, so any attempt by other nations to manufacture such weapons would be a serious breach of informational ownership.

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