Mayors, Legislators Push For A Nuclear Weapons Free World

By Jamshed Baruah

BASEL (IDN) – Preserve the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty! Prevent a new nuclear arms race in Europe! Undertake measures to reduce the risk of a nuclear conflict! Support global nuclear disarmament!

This is the crux of an impassioned appeal by mayors, parliamentarians, policy experts and civil society representatives from forty countries – mostly Europe and North America – in an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump and to the leaders of the Russian and U.S. legislatures. [2019-01-31]

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Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace – Chinese

是时候了——摈弃核时代，创造一个和平的绿色星球

作者：Medea Benjamin、Alice Slater

Medea Benjamin是“粉色和平代号组织”（CODEPINK for Peace）的联合总监，同时著有若干本书，包括《伊朗内幕：伊斯兰共和国的真实历史和政治》（Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic）；Alice Slater则服务于“非战世界组织”（World Beyond War）协调委员会，也是联合国核时代和平基金会（Nuclear Age Peace Foundation）代表。

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UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament – THAI

UN ยกย่องอินเดียสำหรับการฝึกอบรมนักการทูตชาวต่างชาติในด้านการลดอาวุธ

โดย Devinder Kumar

นิวเดลี (IDN) – อินเดียเป็นประเทศสมาชิกแรกขององค์การสหประชาชาติที่ได้เปิดตัวโครงการสัมพันธภาพในด้านการลดอาวุธและความปลอดภัยระหว่างประเทศสำหรับนักการทูตชาวต่างชาติ “นี่เป็นการแสดงให้เห็นถึงความมุ่งมั่นของอินเดียต่อปัญหาด้านนิวเคลียร์และการลดอาวุธ” กล่าวโดยเจ้าหน้าที่อาวุโสของกระทรวงการต่างประเทศ (MEA)

โครงการนี้มีความมุ่งเน้นต่อนักการทูตอายุน้อยจากประเทศต่าง ๆ อันหลากหลาย และมีความสอดคล้องอย่างใกล้ชิดกับโครงการของ UN สำหรับสัมพันธภาพในด้านการลดอาวุธซึ่งก่อตั้งขึ้นในปี 1978 โดยการประชุมสมัชชาใหญ่สมัยพิเศษซึ่งมุ่งเน้นในด้านการลดอาวุธ

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UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament – MALAY

PBB Memuji India Kerana Melatih Diplomat Asing Tentang Pelucutan Senjata

Oleh Devinder Kumar

NEW DELHI (IDN) – India merupakan negara ahli pertama Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu yang melancarkan program kerjasama bagi pelucutan senjata dan keselamatan antarabangsa untuk diplomat asing. “Inilah bukti komitmen India terhadap isu nuklear dan pelucutan senjata,” kata seorang pegawai kanan Kementerian Hal Ehwal Luar Negara (MEA).

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Trump’s Missile Defence Buildup Plans Are Dangerous

Viewpoint by Kingston A. Reif

The writer is director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at Arms Control Association (ACA). He casts a close look at the ‘2019 Missile Defense Review’. This article appeared as an Issue Brief on ACA website on January 17, 2019.

WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – The Trump administration’s long-awaited ‘Missile Defense Review’, which was released on January 17, proposes a significant and costly expansion of the role and scope of U.S. missile defences that is likely to exacerbate Russian and Chinese concerns about the threat to their strategic nuclear deterrents, undermine strategic stability, and further complicate the prospects for additional nuclear arms reductions. [2019-01-30]

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UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament – HINDI

संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने निरस्त्रीकरण पर विदेशी राजनयिकों के प्रशिक्षण के लिए भारत की सराहना की

देविंदर कुमार द्वारा

नई दिल्ली (IDN) – भारत संयुक्त राष्ट्र का ऐसा पहला देश है जिसने विदेशी राजनयिकों के लिए निरस्त्रीकरण और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा पर फेलोशिप कार्यक्रम शुरू किया है। विदेश मंत्रालय (MEA) के एक वरिष्ठ अधिकारी ने कहा, “यह परमाणु मुद्दों और निरस्त्रीकरण के लिए भारत की प्रतिबद्धता का प्रदर्शन है।”

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Time Is Running Out For Sensible Decision-Making On Missile Defences

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – The number of nuclear weapons possessed by the U.S. and Russia is a fraction of what it was during the height of the Cold War. Successive presidents on both sides, since the time of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, have feared their destructive power. The supposed value of nuclear arsenal, so called Mutually Assured Destruction, known by its capitals, MAD, is in fact valueless. They cannot be used, and nearly everyone accepts that. [2019-01-29]

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UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament – BAHASA

PBB Memuji India Karena Melatih Para Diplomat Asing Terkait Perlucutan Senjata

Oleh Devinder Kumar

NEW DELHI (IDN) – India adalah negara anggota pertama PBB yang meluncurkan program beasiswa perlucutan senjata dan keamanan internasional bagi para diplomat asing. “Ini merupakan perwujudan dari komitmen India terhadap masalah nuklir dan perlucutan senjata,” ujar seorang pejabat senior Kementerian Luar Negeri (MEA).

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Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Sustainable Development: Buddhist Leader Urges Increased Role For Youth

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – The need to accelerate progress toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, encourage youth engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and expand  the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) network of universities has been highlighted in a wide-ranging proposal by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist movement. [2019-01-28]

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New U.S. Report Focuses On Possible Future Iranian ICBM

By Arms Control Association

WASHINGTON, DC (IDN) – On January 17, the Trump administration unveiled its Missile Defense Review, which outlines the administration’s strategy to counter missile threats, focusing on those posed by “rogue states” defined as Iran and North Korea.

The review cites Iranian missile development as a primary challenge, repeatedly referencing the possibility of the development of an Iranian ICBM and the U.S. missile defense response. [2019-01-25]

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