UN Chief Calls CTBTO 20 Anniversary ‘a Call to Action’

Addressing a CTBTO Panel in Vienna, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on April 27: “When I was serving as the representative of the Republic of Korea I had the honour of presiding as Chairman of CTBTO. While assuming my chairmanship, I made small talk, saying: “My name is Ban Ki-moon; it is pronounced Ban, it is spelled B-a-n. While I will encourage constructive dialogue, I will ban using my name [for] nuclear tests”. Since then, my nickname has been “Mr. Nuclear-Test-Ban”. So, I will still carry that name, so I will try to ban any nuclear test. So, we ask [for] your strong commitment on this.”

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Kazakhstan’s Passionate Bid for UN Security Council Seat

Analysis by J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – As the UN Security Council inches closer to the election of five non-permanent members on June 28, participants of the Istanbul Summit have urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries to support Kazakhstan’s bid for 2017-2018 membership.

Five new non-permanent members are scheduled to be elected for a two-year term, beginning January 2017: one for Africa; one for the Asia-Pacific Group; one for Latin America and the Caribbean; and two for the ‘Western European and Others Group’ (WEOG).

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Hiroshima Declaration Avoids Firm Commitment to Nuclear-Free World – Japanese

非核世界実現への堅い決意から逃げた広島宣言

【広島IDN＝ロドニー・レイノルズ】

G７諸国（カナダ・フランス・ドイツ・イタリア・日本・英国・米国）の外相らが２日間の会合を締めくくって４月１１日に「広島宣言」を採択したが、核兵器の完全廃絶に向けた具体的な約束をすることはなかった。

宣言は、見せかけだけの意図や、大量破壊兵器（WMD）の危険性に関する新鮮味のない言葉にあふれているが、「核兵器なき世界」の実現には踏み込んでいない。

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UN and Hiroshima Citizens Insist on a World without Nuclear Weapons – Japanese

国連と広島市民が核なき世界の実現を強く求める

【国連IDN＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】

ニューヨークの国連本部で国連軍縮委員会の２週目の審議が翌日に始まろうとする中、核兵器廃絶日本ＮＧＯ市民連絡会と核兵器廃絶をめざすヒロシマの会が広島で発表した共同声明は、「核のない世界への展望は未だに開けていない」と断じている。

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2016 Nuclear Security Summit: Obama’s Last Hurrah – Norwegian

 2016 Kjernevåpen sikkerhetstoppmøte: Obama’s siste Hurra

Analyse av Jayantha Dhanapala*

KANDY, Sri Lanka (IDN) – En placebo defineres som en medisin eller en prosedyre som er foreskrevet til den psykologiske fordelen til en pasient, ved praktisering av generell medisin – snarere for å føye eller berolige, enn for noen som helst fysiologisk eller terapeutisk virkning. Den amerikanske presidenten Barack Obamas retorikk, i Praha i april 2009, ga verden en spennende visjon av en kjernevåpen fri verden: “Eksistensen av tusenvis kjernevåpen er den farligste arven fra den kalde krigen …. Jeg erklærer klart og med overbevisning at USAs forpliktelse om å søke fred og sikkerhet for en verden uten kjernevåpen. “

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2016 Nuclear Security Summit: Obama’s Last Hurrah – Japanese

２０１６年核セキュリティサミット：オバマ最後の努力

【キャンディ（スリランカ）IDN＝ジャヤンタ・ダナパラ】

一般的な診療実務において、「偽薬」とは、患者の心理面にプラスに働くようにということで処方される薬や処置のことだと定義される。つまり、生理学上、或いは治療上の効果というよりも、患者の気持ちに合わせたり、沈静させる効果を狙っているのである。米国のバラク・オバマ大統領が２００９年４月にプラハで示したレトリックは、世界に対して、「核兵器なき世界」という希望を掻き立てるビジョンを示した。「何千もの核兵器の存在は冷戦の最も危険な遺産です。……私は明白に、信念とともに、米国が核兵器のない平和で安全な世界を追求すると約束します。」

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Hiroshima Declaration Avoids Firm Commitment to Nuclear-Free World

Analysis by Rodney Reynolds

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – When the Foreign Ministers of G7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the United States – adopted the ‘Hiroshima Declaration’ at the end of a two-day meeting on April 11, they failed to make any concrete commitments for the total elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. [P03] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Hiroshima Declaration Avoids Firm Commitment to Nuclear-Free World

Analysis by Rodney Reynolds

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – When the Foreign Ministers of G7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the United States – adopted the ‘Hiroshima Declaration’ at the end of a two-day meeting on April 11, they failed to make any concrete commitments for the total elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. [P03] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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UN and Hiroshima Citizens Insist on a World without Nuclear Weapons

Analysis by Ramesh Jaura

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Before the UN Disarmament Commission started the second week of its session at the United Nations headquarters in New York, a joint statement issued in Hiroshima by the Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition and the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (HANWA) declared: “The prospect for a nuclear-free world is not bright.” [P02] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF

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