Challenges Remain But Good News For Nuclear Disarmament – Japanese

 課題は残るが、核軍縮によいニュース

【ベルリンIDN＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】

核軍縮に関しては多くのよいニュースがあるが、核兵器禁止を求める活動家が「枕を高くして安らかに眠る」ことができるまでには、まだ長い道のりが待っている。広島・長崎での核兵器使用から約７０年、未だに約１万７０００発の核弾頭が人類の生存を脅かし続けている。

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Nagasaki Meet Recommends Concrete Steps For Nuke Abolition

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By RAMESH JAURA*

BERLIN | NAGASAKI (IDN) – More than 50,000 nuclear weapons have been eliminated since the historic Reykjavík Summit between the then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his counterpart from the erstwhile Soviet Union  Mikhail Gorbachev, which culminated into a groundbreaking Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in December 1987. But 17,300 nukes remain, threatening many times over the very survival of human civilization and most life on earth, as the 2013 Nagasaki Appeal points out. [P] ARABIC TEXT VERSION PDF | GERMAN | ITALIAN |  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PERSIAN | SPANISH | SWEDISH | TURKISH | URDU 

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Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity Prodded

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By PIERRE KLOCHENDLER

OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM (IPS) – As Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and nuclear talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme continue, a unique international conference, “A Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)”, was held in Jerusalem. [P] ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Disarmament The Key To Sustaining Future Generations – Japanese

 未来の世代を維持するカギを握る軍縮

【ニューヨークIDN＝ジョアン・エラキット】

政 策形成を通じて将来世代の利益増進に取り組んでいる「世界未来協議会（The World Future Council）」は、列国議会同盟（IPU）および国連軍縮部（UNODA）と協力して、４年前から世界の平和と安定に貢献した優れた政策に「未来政策 賞」を授与している。

こ の国際社会にプラスの変化をもたらす使命を帯びた三者連合による顕彰プロセスは、次の質問から始まる。「今日もっとも重要な問題は何であり、いったいどの 国が、他者の注意を引くような熱意をもってそれに取り組んでいるのか？」そして今年のテーマは優れた「軍縮政策」に焦点を当てることとなった。

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Challenges Remain But Good News For Nuclear Disarmament

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By RAMESH JAURA*

BERLIN (IDN) – There is a lot of good news on the nuclear disarmament front but there are miles to go before the campaigners for banning the bomb can ‘lie down and sleep in peace’. Almost seventy years after the first use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 17,000 continue to threaten the very survival of humankind. [P] ARABIC TEXT VERSION PDF | GERMAN | HINDI | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PERSIAN | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH | SWEDISH

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Disarmament The Key To Sustaining Future Generations

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By JOAN ERAKIT*

NEW YORK (IDN) – Striving to promote the interest of future generations through policy making, The World Future Council gathers each year to review strategies that are progressive and change the way our global community functions.

The process begins with a serious question: what are the most important topics of our time and which countries are addressing them with such vigour, others take notice? [P] CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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Russia May Do Better Than its Nuclear Rhetoric

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Beckon Nuke Free World

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By RAMESH JAURA

BERLIN | HIROSHIMA (IDN) – “World leaders, high-ranking UN officials, city mayors and representatives of the civil society from around the globe, gathered for a summit at Hiroshima and Nagasaki to mark the seventieth anniversary of the atom bombing of two Japanese cities, declared that nuclear weapons will be outlawed by 2020, and called upon all governments to agree at the earliest on a nuclear weapons convention.” [P] ARABIC | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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UN Presses Forward on Global Ban on Nuke Tests

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By JAYA RAMACHANDRAN

NEW YORK (IDN) – Seventeen years after the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) opened for signature, the United Nations has launched a new initiative to expedite its entry into force “at the earliest possible date”. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PERSIAN | SPANISH | URDU

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Eminent Persons To Support Entry Into Force Of Global Treaty Banning Nuclear Test

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To ensure an innovative and focused approach to advance the CTBT’s ratification by the remaining Annex 2 States, a group comprising eminent personalities and internationally recognized experts was launched on September 26, 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Through their expertise, experience and political standing, this Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) will support and complement efforts to promote the Treaty’s entry into force as well as reinvigorating international endeavours to achieve this goal. The Presidents of the Article XIV Conference, the Foreign Minister of Hungary, János Martonyi, and the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Marty Natalegawa, will also be members of the GEM.

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