Exploring the Path Towards a Nuclear-free World

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By DAISAKU IKEDA*

TOKYO (IPS) – This past February, the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons was held in Nayarit, Mexico, as a follow-up to the first such conference held last year in Oslo, Norway. The conclusion reached by this conference, on the basis of scientific research, was that “no State or international organisation has the capacity to address or provide the short and long term humanitarian assistance and protection needed in case of a nuclear weapon explosion.” JAPANESE TEXT VERSION | PDF

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Non-Nuclear Ukraine Haunts Security Summit in The Hague

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By THALIF DEEN

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The two-day, much-ballyhooed Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in the Netherlands, which concluded on March 25, was politically haunted by the upheaval in Ukraine – the former Soviet republic that renounced some 1,800 of its nuclear weapons in one of the world’s most successful disarmament exercises back in 1994. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Three Conferences To Focus On Nuke-Free World – Japanese

「核兵器なき世界」に焦点あてた３つの会議

【ベルリンIDN＝ジャムシェッド・バルーア】

ウクライナをめぐる米露間の緊張が高まり、核問題にも悪影響が出てくると予想される中、核不拡散・軍縮に向けた取り組みを強化するうえで、今年４月に予定されている３つの国際会議の重要性がますます高まっている。

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Peace Forum At UN Pleads For Nuke Abolition – Chinese

和平论坛在联合国恳求消除核武器

【纽约IDN＝Jamshed Baruah】

作为联合国文明同盟（UNAOC）的高级代表，纳西尔·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·纳赛尔大使表达了他对“核武器造成的灾难性人道主义后果，以及核武器对国际和平和安全构成威胁”的深切关注。在纽约联合国总部，纳赛尔大使推出了一本名为“和平论坛“的书，并开启了对全球公民意识和联合国的未来的讨论，他同时还强调了文化同和平的重要性。

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Parliaments Want A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World

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By JAMSHED BARUAH

GENEVA (IDN) – More than 163 parliaments from around the world, constituting the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), have adopted a landmark resolution urging parliaments to “work with their governments on eliminating the role of nuclear weapons in security doctrines” and to “urge their governments to start negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention or package of agreements to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world”.

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Towards A Nuke-Free Sustainable Global Society

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By RAMESH JAURA

BERLIN (IDN) – Describing the disorientation and anarchy in the aftermath of First World War in 1919, the Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote in his renowned poem The Second Coming: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” At a time when, despite the absence of a global war, things appear to be falling apart again, the Buddhist philosopher and educator Daisaku Ikeda does not despair and, in fact, shows the way to “value creation for global change”. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN

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NATO and Russia Caught in New Nuclear Arms Race – Japanese

【ベルリンIDN＝ジュリオ・ゴドイ】

米国政府は、（ロシア政府が）２段式の地上発射巡航ミサイル「RS-26」の発射実験を行ったことは１９８７年の中距離核戦力（INF）全廃条約違反だとして、非公式にロシアを非難している。

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Three Conferences To Focus On Nuke-Free World

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By JAMSHED BARUAH

BERLIN (IDN) – As tension mounts in relations between the U.S. and Russia on Ukraine amid apprehensions of a nuclear fallout, three international conferences scheduled for April 2014 have acquired added significance in promoting efforts towards nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.

The first in the series is a meeting of foreign ministers on April 11-12 in Hiroshima, nearly two months after the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Mexico. It will be followed by an inter-faith conference organised by the Tokyo-based Soka Gakkai International (SGI) on April 24 in Washington. From April 28 to May 9 the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will hold its third session at the United Nations in New York. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN

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Nuclear Disarmament, the State of Play – Japanese

｜視点｜核軍縮の現状（ピーター・ワイス核政策法律家委員会名誉会長）

【ニューヨークIPS＝ピーター・ワイス】

もし精神病というものが現実との接点を失うことだとしたら、核軍縮の現状はまさに精神病と言えるだろう。

一方で核問題は、数十年にわたる休眠状態から表舞台へと徐々に現れつつある。他方で「核兵器なき世界」への核兵器国のコミットメントは、遵守というよりも違反としてとらえられている。

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NATO and Russia Caught in New Nuclear Arms Race

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By JULIO GODOY*

BERLIN (IDN) – The U.S. government is unofficially accusing Russia of violating the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, by flight testing two-stage ground-based cruise missile RS-26.

Although the U.S. government has not officially commented on the alleged Russian violation of the INF, which prohibits both countries to producing, testing and deploying ballistic and cruise missiles, and land-based missiles of medium (1,000 to 5,500 kilometres) and short (500 to 1,000 kilometres) range, high ranking members of the government in Washington have been leaking information to U.S. media, in a moment of particular tense relations with Moscow. [P] CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF |  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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