Malaysian Diplomat Shows Courage on Way to Landmark NPT Review Conference

Viewpoint by Ray Acheson

This article first appeared as Editorial in NPT News in Review, Vol. 16, No. 7 on May 10, 2019. The writer is the Director of Reaching Critical Will – the disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). She represents WILPF on several coalition steering groups, including the 2017 Nobel Laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Ray is a 2018 UN Women Metro-NY “Champion of Change”. – The Editor [2019-05-14]

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Mayors for Peace Call for a Common Ground on the NPT

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – In anticipation of the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 2020 at the United Nations, the Mayors for Peace have in a Joint Appeal called for finding a “common ground on the NPT”; because the global interest embodied in the NPT is in the national interests of all countries and all peoples worldwide. [2019-05-13]

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Experts Exhort Nuclear Deal Signatories to Help Iran

By Jamshed Baruah

NEW YORK (IDN) – The Arms Control Association (ACA), a Washington-based nonpartisan organization, has warned that Iran’s “threat to violate” the landmark 2015 nuclear deal is “a very worrisome but predictable response” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “dangerous decision” to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) one year ago.

The Washington-based organization said: “The Trump administration’s systematic campaign to deny Iran any benefits from the agreement has driven the leadership in Tehran to take these retaliatory steps.” [2019-05-08]

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Faith Communities Sound a Clarion Call for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – Heed the voices of the world’s hibakusha, survivors of atomic bombings, by unequivocally recommitting to achieving a world without nuclear weapons, by supporting the signing and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). [2019-05-04] JAPANESE

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Kazakhstan Calls for Rigorous Implementation of the NPT

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – Kazakhstan, an active supporter of nuclear disarmament and strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime, has reiterated its firm support for the strict and complete compliance by all parties of the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). [2019-05-03]

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UN Eager to Advance Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

｜国連｜核不拡散の誓約前進へ、議論交わす

【ニューヨークIDN＝ジャムシェッド・バルーア】

国連は、冷戦後に重要な成果を生み出してきた軍縮・軍備管理の枠組みが崩壊することを強く懸念しており、画期的な核不拡散条約（NPT）が今後も実行可能な条約であり続けられるように、躍起になっている。

NPTの発効から５０年、無期限延長から２５年を目前にして、国連安保理（構成１５か国。議長はドイツのハイコ・マース外相）は４月２日、国連本部でハイレベル会合を招集した。

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UNODA Chief Focuses on Youth Engagement in Meeting with NGOs

By Caroline Mwanga

NEW YORK (IDN) – The role of youth in promoting nuclear disarmament as envisaged in the UN Secretary-General’s Agenda for Disarmament, Securing Our Common Future, formed the focus of High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Izumi Nakamitsu’s meeting with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the United Nations headquarters in New York on May 1. [2019-05-02]

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Un eminente líder budista insta a detener las armas nucleares y los robots asesinos

Por Ramesh Jaura

Foto: Dr. Daisaku Ikeda. Crédito: Seikyo Shimbun.

BERLÍN | TOKIO (IDN) – En el período previo a la próxima ronda de conversaciones decisivas sobre la no proliferación de armas nucleares, el doctor Daisaku Ikeda, filósofo budista, educador y defensor incondicional del desarme nuclear, ha pedido que se suavicen las tensiones para detener una mayor escalada del conflicto sobre el desarrollo de armas nucleares.

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UN Eager to Advance Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation – KOREAN

핵무기 비확산 조약을 진전 시키기 위한 유엔의 노력

Jamshed Baruah 글

뉴욕 (IDN) – 전후 냉전 시대를 맞아 상당한 성과를 거두었던 군축과 군비 통제 체제가 침식되는 것에 대해 깊은 우려를 표명한 유엔은 핵무기 비확산 조약 (NPT)의 획기적인 조약 실행 지속 가능성을 보장하기 위해 열심이다.

조약 발효 50주년과 무기한 연장 25주년 기념행사에 주목한 15개국 안전보장 이사회의 의장 헤이코 마스 (Heiko Maas) 독일 외무장관은 2019 년 4 월 2 일 유엔 본부에서 고위급 회의를 소집했다.

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New Attempt to Tackle Nuclear Proliferation Threat in the Middle East

中東の核拡散対策に新たな試み

【ニューヨークIDN＝サントー・D・バネルジー】

中東非大量破壊兵器地帯（WMDFZ）と中東非核兵器地帯（NWFZ）の創設に関する会議（＝中東会議）は、２０１８年１２月の国連総会第一委員会がある決定を下すまでは忘れ去られていたようだ。その決定とは、世界で最も不安定な地域の一つである中東において、核拡散のリスクに対処する国際会議の「招集を国連事務総長に委託する」というものであった。

１９９５年核不拡散条約（NPT）再検討会議で、NPTの無期限延長を定めた一連の決定事項の一部として、「大量破壊兵器、すなわち、核兵器、化学兵器、生物兵器、並びに、それらの運搬手段を効果的に検証可能な形で中東から廃絶した地帯を創設すること」が要請されていたという事実に、この国連総会第一委員会決議の重要性が表れている。

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