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Il Giappone considera modi per “togliersi la camicia di forza” e andare fino in fondo verso l’abolizione del nucleare

A cura di Katsuhiro Asagiri

Photo (from left to right): Ms. Kaoru Nemoto, Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo; Mr. Nobuharu Imanishi, Director of Arms Control and Disarmament Division, MOFA; Ms. Masako Toki, Education project manager at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Ms. Mitsuki Kudo, Nagasaki Youth Delegation 2018. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri.

TOKYO (IDN) – Il forte interesse del Giappone nei confronti degli sforzi della comunità internazionale, volti ad aiutare a dare inizio a un mondo libero da armi nucleari, è emerso durante il periodo di preparazione alla celebrazione della Giornata Internazionale per l’eliminazione totale delle armi nucleari, ricorsa il 26 settembre, che è stata fissata per la prima volta nel 2014, in seguito ad una delibera dell’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite.

UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament

|国連ハイレベル会合|完全核軍縮への支持、続々と

Photo: María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (centre right), President of the 73rd session of the General Assembly, listens as Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) addresses the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (26 September). At left is Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (ODA). UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist【ニューヨークIDN=サントー・D・バネルジー】

国際連合は、1946年の総会決議第1号以来、核軍縮という目標を追求してきた。しかし、国連は2013年、核兵器を保有する国々が潤沢な資金と核戦力近代化の長期計画を持っているとの認識の下、9月26日を「核兵器の完全廃絶のための国際デー」と定めた。

国連総会は、世界の安全保障環境が悪化する中、核兵器のない世界という目標達成に向けた国際的取り組みを動員するため、9月26日にニューヨークの国連本部でハイレベル総会を招集した。

India Needs to Reify its Global Nuclear Disarmament Policy

Viewpoint by Pulkit Mohan

Photo credit: Peter Miller © Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0

India’s challenge in asserting its stance on global nuclear disarmament requires a precise articulation of its goals and plans, writes Pulkit Mohan, a Research Intern at India’s prestigious Observer Research Foundation. The article first appeared on 28 September 2018, and is being reproduced courtesy the Foundation.

Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition

|日本|拘束を解き放って核廃絶に向かう道とは

Photo (from left to right): Ms. Kaoru Nemoto, Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo; Mr. Nobuharu Imanishi, Director of Arms Control and Disarmament Division, MOFA; Ms. Masako Toki, Education project manager at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Ms. Mitsuki Kudo, Nagasaki Youth Delegation 2018. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri.【東京IDN=浅霧勝浩】

核兵器なき世界を実現する国際的な取り組みに対する日本国内の深い関心は、9月26日の「核兵器の全面的廃絶のための国際デー」に向けた活動に現れている。この国際デーは、国連総会の決議(68/32)に従って2014年に初めて記念式典が開催された。

核兵器の全面的廃絶の必要性に関する社会の認識を高め、北朝鮮からの脅威や中国との微妙な関係、米国の核の傘によって課せられた拘束を解くことを可能にするためにこの国際デーを利用しようという日本の市民社会の取り組みが、2つのイベントの形で現れた。

Pompeo Heads to Pyongyang in Quest of Denuclearization

By Kelsey Davenport & Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Photo: Mike Pompeo, then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, meets with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un over the Easter weekend (March 30 to April 1, 2018). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Kelsey Davenport is director for nonproliferation policy and Alicia Sanders-Zakre is research assistant at the Arms Control Association. This article first appeared in the Inaugural Issue: The North Korea Denuclearization Digest on October 3, 2018. It is being reproduced courtesy Arms Control Association. – The Editor

WASHIGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – After a long pause in U.S.-North Korea talks on denuclearization and peace, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Japan, China, North Korea, and South Korea October 6-8. He will visit Pyongyang October 7 and is expected to meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un.

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