Saudi Amb. Won’t Comment on Reports They Are Trying To Get Nukes from Pakistan

‘We will do whatever it takes to protect our people and our country’

BLITZER: “A lot of people are concerned that, if you don't like the deal, Saudi Arabia, you will get -- you will try to get your own nuclear bomb to balance what the Iranians presumably might have down the road. Are you in discussions -- Pakistan is a friend of Saudi Arabia. Pakistan has a nuclear bomb capability. They have nuclear weapons. Are you in discussions with Pakistan about perhaps getting a nuclear bomb from Pakistan?” 
AL-JUBEIR: “Wolf, we have known each other for 25 years. You don't really expect me to answer this question. We will do whatever it takes to protect our people and our country. We are determined to ensure the safety of Saudi Arabia. And with regards to the deal, we want to wait until we see what the details are that are finally agreed to.” 
BLITZER: “How concerned are you that the U.S. says one thing in interpreting what has been achieved and the Iranians on several key sensitive issues say that's spin, that's not really what's going on?” 
AL-JUBEIR: “What this confirms and what the administration has been saying is that the details have yet to be worked out. That this is a framework agreement where an agreement on principles and an agreement on objectives; and then you work on the details. The U.S. and the P5+1 countries have been saying that they are -- they have a certain objective they want to achieve. The Iranians in their statements are saying something contradictory. I don't see -- what I see here is areas where -- that have not been agreed to yet, and we hope that they will be agreed to on the basis of the assurances we were provided by the U.S.”

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