US, Jordan signed JAP on cooperation to counter Nuclear Smuggling

United States and Jordan signed a Joint Action Plan (JAP) to improve efforts against nuclear and radiological smuggling. The partnership will help in enhancing the efforts to combat nuclear terrorism.

• The JAP was signed by Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Washington.

The measure strengthens US-Jordanian efforts to work to detect and prevent nuclear and radiological smuggling incidents. The US has similar agreements with 13 other countries, including Iraq, Ukraine and Lithuania.

• The plan is the fourteenth such arrangement the State Department has concluded worldwide and Jordan’s third with a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region partner.