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Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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Mohamed ElBaradei
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 17
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Cairo
Egypt
Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei
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The Egyptians have grown in confidence, theyve tasted freedom, and theres no way back.
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I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
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Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
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