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Forcible disarmament in South Sudan will not improve security
2008-06-03 17:25:00 In response to decades of armed violence and cattle rustling, the Government of South Sudan is planning a campaign to forcibly collect firearms from southern citizens.
By: Gun News
Cluster Munition Convention: "Disarmament as humanitarian action"
2008-05-30 15:34:00 Today, the new Cluster Munition Convention banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians was adopted by the Dublin Conference at around 10h10. There were no objections expressed from the floor.A great number of delegations spoke to welcome the new treaty, which will enter into force internationally six months after 30 states have ratified or acceded to it. Given the speed at which the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention entered into force internationally almost a decade ago and the energy and commitment expressed in the conference chamber today, this may not take long.The final version of the treaty in English, French and Spanish should be available on the Dublin Conference website shortly, in addition to the Conference's procedural report.A couple of points stood out from the plethora of closing statements. The Ambassador of France said the Dublin Conference had been the most successful diplomatic conference he had taken part of in his career. I suspect...
THEY Like To Push the Weak Around
2008-03-23 13:39:00 System of A Down - Deer Dance "THEY like to push the weak around" Discover The ONLY Way to defeat the THEM
Disarmament Efforts Get a Boost in Norway
2008-02-29 19:14:00 A group of high-level disarmament experts gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for an international conference hosted by the Norwegian government. Participants for the conference, entitled, "Achieving a World Free of Nuclear Weapons," included former Secretary of State George Shultz and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. Schultz and Nunn are two authors of the four-member team, also including former Defense Secretary William Perry and former secretary of State Henry Kissinger, that published articles in the Wall Street Journal last month and in January 2007, calling for a "world free of nuclear... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Dealing with Deadlock in Multilateral Disarmament Negotiations
2008-02-12 20:19:00 We've had a very interesting start to the week on the disarmament front here in Geneva.On Monday, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy organised a Negotiation Day to analyse the state of the art of multilateral negotiation with the help of the PIN Group (PIN stands for 'Processes of International Negotiation').Today, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, made a statement formally presenting the Conference on Disarmament with a draft treaty on the 'Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects' (PPWT).The same question ran through my mind at both events: How can multilateral negotiation processes best deal with deadlock when it occurs? In other words, when parties to a multilateral negotiation find themselves in a mutually hurting stalemate but cannot find an obvious way out, what options are open to them?Moday's negotiation day offered a number of mostly theoretical answers that focused mainly on dilutin...
The United Kingdom acts to globalize nuclear disarmament progress
2008-02-06 15:53:00 On February 5, 2008, the British Secretary of Defence Des Browne addressed the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on ?Laying the Foundations for Multilateral Disarmament.? He made a bold statement of the United Kingdom?s commitment to its nuclear disarmament obligations:?The UK has a vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and, in partnership with everyone who shares that ambition, we intend to make further progress towards this vision in the coming years.?Browne continues, emphasizing the need for progress nuclear disarmament to be verifiable, not only to the nuclear weapons ?haves,? but also to the non-nuclear weapons states:?Our chances of eliminating nuclear weapons will be enhanced immeasurably if the Non-Nuclear Weapon States can see forward planning, commitment and action toward multilateral nuclear disarmament by Nuclear Weapon States. Without this, we risk generating the perception that the Nuclear Weapon States are failing to fulfil their disarmament obligations and thi...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Victim Ends Up Strip Searched and Brutalized
2008-02-04 03:36:00 Source: Channel 3 CANTON -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. read more
If you want disarmament, globalize ACDA
2008-02-01 18:01:00 AFP reports that the new Australian Foreign Minister is promising a more assertive role in support of nuclear disarmament. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith told a Tokyo news conference that:"The current Australian Government came to office with a new commitment to seekto be much more active... as a nation on nuclear non-proliferation anddisarmament matters." We welcome this important step forward. But as former Prime Minister John Howard?s August 2007 deal to sell uranium to India ? which has since been reversed by the new Australian Government ? makes clear, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament are not always Australia?s top foreign policy priorities. This is easy to understand, of course, bilateral relationships always loom large in comparison to global imperatives in international politics.One way to strengthen efforts to promote nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament and to insulate them from political vaguaries may be to strengthen their institutional advocate. The Australi...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Spurring on the Conference on Disarmament
2008-01-24 19:44:00 "A spur of conscience to the flank of plodding procedure" was how the Ambassador of Sri Lanka characterised the message delivered to the Conference on Disarmament yesterday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.The 65-member Conference has been plodding along for more than 10 years now, unable to deliver a single disarmament agreement since completing its work on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996 (for some background, see our posting from August 2007 entitled, "Last chance for the Conference on Disarmament?").The Conference has managed periodically over the last two years to break into a canter thanks to some innovative coordination by the rotating Conference Presidents and sheer determination on the part of most Member States to break the deadlock in which they find themselves. Despite these efforts, the goal of galloping headlong towards a much-needed treaty to cap (and possibly then reduce) global stocks of fissile material for nuclear weapons has remained elusive.In expre...
2008 Disarmament Calendar
2008-01-14 09:44:00 Our last few posts have previewed in general terms some of the main negotiations and discussions on disarmament and arms control that will take place during 2008. The Geneva Forum has just made it easier to follow all of this year's goings on by publishing online its 2008 Disarmament Calendar (click on "Calendar" in the menu bar on the left of the Geneva Forum's homepage). The Geneva Forum will keep this calendar updated throughout the year so why not put it in your bookmarks and refer back every now and again to get the full picture? Also, if you would like to suggest additions, please feel free to use the link at the top of the calendar to do so.The 2008 disarmament year officially starts today with the opening of a one-week meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). The GGE is scheduled to meet for up to 7 weeks this year to "negotiate a proposal to address urgently the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions...
Disarmament Grumblefest 2008
2008-01-10 08:42:00 As we foreshadowed in December, 2008 is gearing up to be a busy year for disarmament in Geneva. From 21 January, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) will resume talks to try to get back to work after a decade of blockage and inertia, for instance. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will meet for the second preparatory meeting to its upcoming five-yearly review conference 2010 in Geneva from late April, after a tough start in Vienna last year . And, next week, representatives of member governments of the 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will begin work to "negotiate a proposal to address urgently the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions, while striking a balance between military and humanitarian considerations".So, 2008 will be busy for disarmament. The real question is - will it be productive? Though Geneva-based disarmament processes like the Biological Weapons Convention are quietly boxing on, there are some wider doubts. Officials doggedly try to be p...
Disarmament & Globalisation: Old & New Wisdoms
2008-01-07 08:35:00 Around the time that the Wall Street Journal published a well-received and watershed opinion-editorial by Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, Charles Schultz and others signalling a potential new beginning in nuclear disarmament public policy, a new project emerged?entitled ?Disarmament and Globalisation??based at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, United Kingdom. As was reported on this blog later in 2007, momentum picked up in June when the UK Foreign Secretary echoed the op-ed?s call and those of many others for a world free of nuclear weapons. Great: the ?D-word? was making something of a comeback, this could only be a good thing and we pressed on with our work.However, with this apparent progress there still seemed to be a disparity between calls for nuclear disarmament and the Trident renewal in the UK or the continuing debate over the Reliable Replacement Warhead program in the United States.What also appeared evident, and at SOAS we heard it most clearly, was that ...
Ivory Coast's disarmament begins
2007-12-22 18:26:00 President Gbagbo (l) and PM Soro are working together in governmentRebels and government forces in Ivory Coast have begun the process of disarmament more than five years after the country descended into civil war.
By: Get rich
Ivory Coast disarmament to start
2007-12-22 13:04:00 Good news from Ivory Coast at last. Source: BBC NEWS Ivory Coast disarmament to start ...
Disarmament Insight: 2007 in review
2007-12-12 08:37:00 As we head into the festive season and begin to wind down for the holiday break, the Disarmament Insight team thought it would be worth pausing to review some of the main themes we?ve covered on the blog in 2007, and a few of the highlights readers might have missed.Since we launched the blog in March, it?s grown from a small ?neighbourhood? site known to 20 or 30 people in Geneva, Switzerland (where UNIDIR?s project on Disarmament as Humanitarian Action and the Geneva Forum are based) to attracting thousands of visitors, at least some of whom we hope have bookmarked the site and return on a frequent basis. Indeed, this post is the 111th. We?d like to thank in particular our Geneva Forum and DHA project donors, our guest bloggers and everyone who?s used the blog?s comment function to contribute their thoughts over the course of 2007.Cluster munitions have been a major theme in recent months as concurrent international processes have unfolded by means of the Oslo process and a mandat...
Indian disarmament policy: don?t just do something, sit there!
2007-11-15 14:42:00 In anticipation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel?s upcoming visit to New Delhi, the Hindustan Times reports that Indian Special Envoy and former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran was recently told by German officials:"We want India to contribute to strengthening international non proliferation system." The German Government reportedly expressed concern about the impact of the proposed U.S.-India nuclear deal on worldwide efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and has asked India to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and support a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT).We predict this will not be the last expression of concern from a Nuclear Supplier Group government over the proposed deal and suggest that signing the CTBT and support of an FMCT are just the beginning of what the Government of India must do to demonstrate a credible commitment to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
By: Nukes on a Blog
Veteran?s Disarmament Act
2007-10-23 14:17:00 Larry Pratt over at News With Views has pointed out an extremely dangerous provision in HR 2640: To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes. Larry calls HR2640 the Veteran’s Disarmament Act because of the special dangers it poses to America’s combat veterans. Gun Owners of America has published a ...
North Korean disarmament prospects dim despite landmark deal
2007-10-06 15:39:00 While the United States has hailed the latest deal to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons programmes as a big step forward, analysts warned Thursday that total disarmament remained a very dim prospect. Doubts remain over whether the secretive regime in Pyongyang is genuinely prepared to give up its atomic ambitions, or whether it is ...
By: 1913 Intel
Obama Wants to eliminate all nuclear weapons
2007-10-03 00:14:00 According to the NY Times Senator Barack Obama proposed on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say. In a speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama will add his voice to a ...
By: The Hot Joints
Negotiators Seek Timeframe for North Korea Disarmament
2007-09-27 22:13:00 BEIJING?Negotiators are sticking to a year-end target for the disablement of North Korea’s nuclear program, a U.S. envoy said Thursday after the start of the latest round of six-nation disarmament talks.U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said a draft joint statement covering a disablement plan was expected to be circulated at talks Friday. “We hope ...
By: The Hot Joints
Veterans Disarmament Act
2007-09-23 06:32:00 The gun grabbers are still at it. Now they’re going after vets. The proposed ban is actually broader. Anyone who is diagnosed as being a tiny ...
Korean War peace treaty or nuclear disarmament?
2007-09-12 01:52:00 Which should be first, ending the Korean War with a Peace Treaty or disarming North Korea’s nuclear programs? Ask anyone from the US and they will more than likely say that disarming North Korea should be first. North Korea’s nuclear programs are potentially a threat to their interests. Ask a South Korean and you may well get a different answer. ...
Campus Gun Ban Disarmed Virginia Victims
2007-08-13 15:18:00 Source: Prison Planet A gun ban recently enforced by Virginia Tech campus prevented over thirty victims of today's [April 16, 2007] mass shooting from defending themselves against the killer, and yet gun control advocates are already politicizing this morning's tragic events to pull the lever for mass gun control. Virginia is a concealed carry state and yet Virginia Tech campus recently enforced a policy prohibiting "unauthorized possession, storage or control" of firearms on campus. According to gun rights activists such as Aaron Zelman of Jews For The Preservation of Firearms, VA Tech has "blood on its hands" for disarming the victims and other students who could potentially have stopped the killer in his tracks in the three hour time period he was allowed to carry out his rampage by cowardly police who hid behind trees as the carnage ensued. Reuters is already disseminating the talking points for an imminent propaganda coup against the Second Amendment...
Last Chance for the Conference on Disarmament?
2007-08-13 05:14:00 The Conference on Disarmament -- "the world's sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum" as its 65 member States frequently remind us -- has featured either directly or tangentially in a number of postings on this blog (see in particular August 8 and March 28). And with good reason. In existence since 1983, the CD has negotiated such landmark agreements as the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Its antecedents, which date back to the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament of 1959-60, gave us the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Environmental Modification Convention. Despite its impressive track record, however, the CD has not been able to produce a multilateral disarmament treaty since finishing its work on the CTBT in 1996. This more than decade-long deadlock has its roots in disagreements on which issues to deal with next. There is broad agreement among CD member States that a treat...
New feature: print or save Disarmament Insight postings
2007-08-10 10:50:00 As you?ve probably noticed, we have just included a new option that allows visitors to save Disarmament Insight blog postings in PDF format.It is now possible to have a printer-friendly version of all or just one of the postings on the site.1) To print all postings displayed on the main page:Simply click the button "Save page as PDF".2) To print a single post: Click on the post?s title (this will open a page displaying only this post); Click the button ?Save page as PDF?.Hope you?ll find this useful.Aurélia Merçay
Palau Steps Up for Disarmament
2007-08-08 01:06:00 Palau is asserting its sovereignty in new ways (perhaps as confidence wanes in the value of their 2003 inclusion in the Bush Administration?s ?Coalition of the Willing?).The Associated Press reports that Palau has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), bringing the number of states who have ratified the Treaty to 139.Also of note, Radio New Zealand International reported on August 1, 2007 that Palau was elected as one of 21 Vice-Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly, the smallest country every to hold that post, according to Marianas Variety. Let?s hope that Palau uses this important moment for small state diplomacy to advance the universality of the CTBT. If Palau campaigns to bring small states into the CTBT at the General Assembly, they will be successful. More small states ratifying the Treaty would mean less political cover for those that remain outside, advancing the cause of early entry-into-force. In this way, Palau could make a historicall...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Is Disarmament Still "On the Level" at the UN?
2007-08-07 20:17:00 In a statement delivered in Hiroshima yesterday on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing of that city, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared:?Nuclear proliferation is one of the most pressing problems confronting our world. Tens of thousands of nuclear weapons remain, many of them on ?hair-trigger? alert. The emergence of a nuclear black market and attempts by terrorists to acquire nuclear weapons and materials have compounded the nuclear threat. Today, our challenge -- as it was for the founders of the United Nations -- is to make the world safer for succeeding generations. This requires us to continue to work towards a world free of nuclear dangers and, ultimately, of nuclear weapons.? The Secretary General?s words are laudable, but there is reason to believe the UN?s institutional commitment to disarmament could use added support.The statement was delivered by Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil who was appointed last month as the United Nations Hi...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Rice Skips, Disarmament Advances at ASEAN Regional Forum
2007-08-03 16:34:00 Leon T. Hadar of the CATO Institute observes that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice?s decision to ?prioritize? Middle East diplomacy over attendance at the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum may tend to marginalize U.S. influence in the region; noting that this is only the second time a U.S. Secretary of State has missed the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting since they began in 1994 (the first time was also Secretary Rice in 2005). But the decision may have an unintended consequence for efforts to promote progress toward a nuclear weapon free world.Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte did attend and made a proprosal on nonproliferation to the 27 foreign ministers in attendance. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Chris Hill briefed the press yesterday in Manila, saying of ARF nonproliferation efforts that:?we believe that this is the type of issue for which the ARF is ideally suited -- and we had a very good tete-a-tet...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Southeast Asia Contributes to Nuclear Disarmament
2007-07-31 22:16:00 On Monday, Foreign Ministers at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial in Manila issued a Joint Statement on the Commission for the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ). The Treaty was signed in 1995 by Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.The Joint Statement pledges the State Parties to work to ensure compliance, work toward accession of the nuclear weapon states, cooperate with international bodies and others, and develop a specific workplan.This is a great step forward, and a great opportunity to offer some suggestions for steps the Commission might take to broaden and strengthen the contribution SEANWFZ makes to international peace and security:An official acknowledgment of the changing political climate suggesting the possibility of progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons signaled by a January 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed by George Schultz, Willi...
By: Nukes on a Blog
Ivory Coast disarmament begins
2007-07-31 14:46:00 South African President Thabo Mbeki joined a number of other African leaders in Bouake, Ivory Coast on Monday as President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro burnt weapons at a symbolic peace ceremony marking the end of five years of civil war in the country.
Join the Special Nuclear Weapons Disarmament Air Force
2007-07-30 18:40:00 Always wanted to be a dove with the magical power to disarm an entire nation of their nuclear weapons in one foul swoop? You and me both. The Nobel Foundation has put out an educational game on... Nukes of Hazard is a project of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. It provides a view from the Hill to Congressional action on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation issues.
By: Nukes of Hazard
IAEA chief calls for early disarmament
2007-07-16 15:55:00 Bangkok, July 16 (DPA) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Monday warned that in the backdrop of rapid spread of sensitive technology, disarmament efforts must be speeded up to ensure peaceful use of nuclear energy.
By: Latest News
Cuba presents NAM stance on disarmament
2007-05-01 10:49:00 Vienna, May 1 : Cuba, as president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), has insisted on the need to comply with the treaties on nuclear disarmament and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
By: newkerala.com
What disarmament initiatives will Britain bring to the table?
2007-04-14 19:35:00 CND Action: Write to your MP todayThe 2007 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee will meet beginning on the 30th of April to work on an agenda of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. The agenda will be discussed in full at the 2010 NPT Review Conference.Britain and the other Nuclear Weapon States are required under Article VI of the NPT to ‘pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.’Write to your MP today, asking her/him to find out from the government what nuclear disarmament initiatives it will be pursuing at the 2007 NPT Prep Com in Vienna. A draft Nuclear Weapons Convention, which would ban all nuclear weapons, is already lodged with the UN.Click here for a recent poll which shows that 64% of the British public want the government to support such a ...
Ban urges review of world disarmament agenda
2007-04-10 08:50:00 New York, April 9: The increasing threats of weapons of mass destruction and daily suffering inflicted by weapons of all types should prompt the international community to review its treaties dealing with disarmament, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
By: newkerala.com
Tune in, turn on and pod out! Disarmament Insight podcasts go live
2007-04-02 15:05:00 The Disarmament Insight initiative held its first workshop with diplomats, NGOs and researchers at the Chateau de Bossey near Geneva on 19 January 2007. The meeting examined what we can learn from recent experience in improving multilateral negotiating practice.Discussions at the workshop were according to the Chatham House Rule. However, wouldn't it be cool, we thought, if we could make the kick-off presentations available on the internet for everyone?Voila! Copying and then pasting the URL into your browser's navigation bar will take you to the Disarmament Insight pod cast site:http://web.mac.com/john_bo-rrieWe hope you enjoy the 3 presentations there:- David Atwood on limits and possibilities for Non-Governmental Organisations in multilateral disarmament diplomacy;- Daniël Prins presenting a diplomat's perspective on engineering progress in multilateral disarmament; and- my own presentation, entitled "Freakomacy: exploring the hidden side of disarmament review conferences".T...
Fred Thompson on British Disarmament
2007-03-31 00:15:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-logC-ZR_4ow Unfortunately YouTube cut off the very end of the audio. The last sentence is “This is not the time for the free world to neglect its own defense.” via Jawa
America?s Disarmament in the War of Ideas
2007-03-30 02:17:00 By Ted Lipien The Bush Administration supports freedom of democracy around the world. Right? Wasn?t this one of the reasons America went to war in Iraq? U.S. overseas broadcasts, managed by the bipartisan Board of Broadcasting Governors (BBG), have been for more than half a century one of the most effective tools in promoting freedom and ...
Getting the ball rolling in the Conference on Disarmament
2007-03-28 14:52:00 I first attended a CD meeting in 2003. I was fresh out of university at the time and assumed, rather naively, that I would require a large sheaf of papers to fulfil my note taking duties. I needn?t have bothered, however, as the meeting began 20 minutes after the stated time closed less than 5 minutes later. What a contrast to the first session of the 2007 year, which ended last week. I?ll forgive the delegates (and interns) for looking a little tired. I?d be too if I had to follow such an unforgiving meeting schedule for 10 weeks. It?s encouraging to see the CD finally shaking off its apathy. Prior to 2006, delegations would usually meet on a Thursday morning in a formal plenary meeting with private group consultations held at various times through the week while the CD was in session. Often, delegates? speeches to the Conference lacked focus and direction. Not surprisingly a few capitals began to question the financial and political value of maintaining a full time delegation in G...
Talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament gaining momentum
2007-03-16 06:21:00 Beijing, Mar 15: Negotiations on peacefully dismantling North Korea's nuclear programmes gained momentum here today with IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei holding talks with China and the first working group meeting on economy and energy cooperation being held.
By: newkerala.com
Israel, U.S. walk out of UN disarmament conference
2007-03-14 22:37:00 Israeli and U.S. delegations walked out of the UN disarmament forum in Switzerland on Tuesday after Iran described Israel as the "real source of nuclear danger in the Middle East" which has a "dark record of crimes." Iran's Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki told the conference on disarmament in Geneva that Israel's nuclear weapons posed a "uniquely grave threat to regional and international peace and security" requiring action by the international community. Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Yitzhak Levanon, said he and his aides, and the entire U.S. delegation, had "abruptly left the room" as Mottaki was in the Middle of his address. A U.S. spokeswoman in Geneva confirmed the walk-out and claimed that Mottaki's remarks were "outrageous and divisive." Israel is believed to possess more than 200 nuclear warheads while consistently refusing to join the UN nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel has also kept the doors to its nuclear facilities closed to UN insp...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Welcome to Disarmament Insight
2007-03-05 08:39:00 This blog site is aimed at negotiators, policy wonks, activists, researchers and anyone curious about disarmament and human security.Every few days we'll be adding new thoughts about our research, including how it relates to current events, future trends and other things we feel excited about on disarmament-related issues.We'd be interested in your thoughts too about the stuff we post here. Agree? Disagree? Comment away when the mood to blog moves you (so to speak). In fact, that's the whole idea . Basic rules apply - don't be rude, try to be constructive and bear in mind that everything you read here is unofficial and not for further attribution. It's all about the dialogue, man ....!HAPPY BLOGGINGthe Dis Insight team
North Korea Willing to Talk About Nuclear Disarmament
2007-02-09 07:57:01 South Korean officials are saying that North Korea is willing take steps to end their nuclear arms program, which is great progress compared to the past few years. Chun Yung-woo said that China could possibly draw up a draft agreement in as early as Thursday. Chun said “we have confirmed that there is a consensus among the countries that there must be an agreement on the early steps on implementing the September 19 joint statement at this round.” This is talking about the agreement between five countries, on of them being North Korea, that in September 2005 where supposed to stop their nuclear arms program. Japan’s chief delegate, Kenichiro Sasae, said “regarding denuclearization, North Korea needs to halt and seal its operations for the nuclear facilities in Yonbyong and accept verification and monitoring by the IAEA,” and that “the initial-stage steps must be implemented in a relatively short period of time.” Negotiators from the US, Ja... |
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