South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal – Russian

Южная Африка — яркий пример ликвидации ядерного арсенала

Автор: Джей Настранис (J Nastranis)

НЬЮ-ЙОРК (IDN) –  Как ожидает Тис Кетоу (Thies Kätow), исследователь Всемирного совета будущего, поскольку кампании по отказу от ядерного оружия и ископаемых видов топлива набирают обороты, их политическое влияние может быть столь же мощным, как и влияние кампании по отказу от сотрудничества с Южной Африкой в конце ХХ века, которая стала определяющим фактором в решении правительства Южной Африки покончить с апартеидом в 1994 году.

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North Korea Stays in Focus Amid Talk About Next Summits

By Kelsey Davenport and Alicia Sanders-Zakre*

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump have both said they are willing to meet for a third summit but are looking for certain conditions to be met ahead of any meeting. Kim said the United States must be more flexible and Trump is looking for North Korea to demonstrate its willingness to give up nuclear weapons. [2019-04-20]

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Eminent Buddhist Leader Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – In the run-up to the forthcoming round of crucial talks on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Buddhist philosopher, educator and a staunch advocate of nuclear disarmament, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, has called for easing tensions to halt further escalation of the conflict over nuclear weapons development. [2019-04-19] JAPANESE | SPANISH

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Eminent Buddhist Leader Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – In the run-up to the forthcoming round of crucial talks on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Buddhist philosopher, educator and a staunch advocate of nuclear disarmament, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, has called for easing tensions to halt further escalation of the conflict over nuclear weapons development. [2019-04-19] JAPANESE | SPANISH | CHINESE

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South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

南アフリカ共和国―核兵器を廃棄した模範

【ニューヨークIDN＝J・ナストラニス】

核兵器や化石燃料関連事業からの金融資産の引き上げ（ダイベストメント）運動が盛んになっているが、その政治的影響力は、２０世紀末に南アフリカ共和国（南ア）に対して展開されたダイベストメント運動のように強力なものになる可能性がある、と「世界未来評議会」のティース・ケイトー研究員は見ている。

この運動は、南アが１９９４年にアパルトヘイトを撤廃させる一つの重要な要因となった。

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African Nations Can Choose Their Own Destiny

Viewpoint by Beatrice Fihn

Following are extensive excerpts from International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Executive Director Beatrice Fihn’s address to the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council on April 4, 2019 at the organization’s Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

ADDIS ABABA (IDN-INPS) – Across the world we have seen the devastating impacts of weapons on civilian populations. Humanitarian disarmament is a preventative approach aimed at reducing human suffering through the creation of norms and laws around weapons with indiscriminate and inhumane impact on civilians. [2019-04-14]

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South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – As the nuclear weapons and fossil fuel divestment campaigns gather steam, their political impact could be as powerful as the divestment campaign against South Africa in the late 20th Century, which was a critical factor in moving the South African government to end apartheid in 1994, anticipates Thies Kätow, researcher for the World Future Council. [2019-04-13 | P01] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | RUSSIAN

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South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – As the nuclear weapons and fossil fuel divestment campaigns gather steam, their political impact could be as powerful as the divestment campaign against South Africa in the late 20th Century, which was a critical factor in moving the South African government to end apartheid in 1994, anticipates Thies Kätow, researcher for the World Future Council. [2019-04-13 | P01]  CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | RUSSIAN

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Call for Renewed U.S.-Russian Strategic Dialogue

By Daryl G. Kimball*

WASHINGTON , D.C. (IDN-INPS) – In the latest in a series of expert conferences and dialogues in Moscow and Washington, a group of distinguished U.S. and Russian experts released a public statement calling on U.S. and Russian officials to get back to the arms control negotiating table, with the first order of business being agreement on a five-year extension of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), as allowed for in Article XIV of the treaty, and talks designed to head-off new arms competition in the wake of the likely termination of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. [2019-04-12]

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Moving Money for a Nuclear-Free and Eco Friendly World

By Jamshed Baruah

GENEVA | BASEL (IDN) – While Fridays for Future protests underline a global dissatisfaction with the continuing failure of governments and industry to protect the climate, the setting of the Doomsday Clock hands to 2 minutes to midnight in January 2019 signifies a continuing high risk of a nuclear clash with disastrous consequences for human beings and the planet Earth. [2019-04-11]

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