Eminent Persons To Support Entry Into Force Of Global Treaty Banning Nuclear Test
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To ensure an innovative and focused approach to advance the CTBT’s ratification by the remaining Annex 2 States, a group comprising eminent personalities and internationally recognized experts was launched on September 26, 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Through their expertise, experience and political standing, this Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) will support and complement efforts to promote the Treaty’s entry into force as well as reinvigorating international endeavours to achieve this goal. The Presidents of the Article XIV Conference, the Foreign Minister of Hungary, János Martonyi, and the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Marty Natalegawa, will also be members of the GEM.
What About The ‘Global Red Line’ For Nukes
Nuclear Abolition News | IDN
By RAMESH JAURA*
BERLIN (IDN) - Reputed to be an ardent campaigner for a nuclear weapons free world, ICAN has yet again called upon the powers-that-be to ban all nukes threatening the very survival of planet Earth and entire humankind. The fervent appeal by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons coincided with the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament in New York. [P] ARABIC TEXT VERSION PDF | CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PERSIAN | SWEDISH
High Opportunity for Nuclear Disarmament at High-Level Meeting
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By JONATHAN GRANOFF*
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, U.S. (IPS) - Every nation in the world has been invited to participate at the highest political level in the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament scheduled for Sep. 26. This has never happened before. We have never been at such a moment of crisis and opportunity. [P] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
By THALIF DEEN
- The upcoming event at the United Nations is being billed as something politically unique.
For the first time in its 68-year history, the 193-member General Assembly is holding a high-level meeting of world leaders on one of the most controversial issues of our time: nuclear disarmament. ARABIC
‘Delusion’ Challenges U.S. Claims About Nuclear Iran
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By PETER JENKINS*
- A Dangerous Delusion is the work of one of Britain’s most brilliant political commentators, Peter Oborne, and an Irish physicist, David Morrison, who has written powerfully about the misleading of British public and parliamentary opinion in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
This book will infuriate neoconservatives, Likudniks and members of the Saudi royal family but enlighten all who struggle with what to think about the claim that Iran’s nuclear programme threatens the survival of Israel, the security of Arab states in the Persian Gulf, and global peace. [P] ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION
U.N. Chief Eyes Eight Holdouts in Nuke Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
By THALIF DEEN
- A group of about 20 “eminent persons” is to be tasked with an unenviable job: convince eight recalcitrant countries to join the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
The eight holdouts – China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and the United States – have not given any indication of possible ratifications, leaving the treaty in limbo. [P] ARABIC | GERMAN | JAPANESE | TURKISH
Disarmament Deal Takes Two Steps Back
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
- A Kremlin compromise on nuclear disarmament looks as far away as ever as Russian president Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama use their countries’ strained relations to bolster their own domestic political agendas, experts say.
Obama’s call, during a speech in Berlin in June 2013, for a dramatic reduction in the world’s nuclear weapons had led to hopes that there would be cuts in world nuclear arsenals on the agenda of a potential nuclear summit in 2016, and gave extra impetus to what will be the first-ever high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on nuclear disarmament in September 2013. [P] | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION
Nuclear Test Moratorium Threatened by North Korean Impunity
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
By THALIF DEEN
- When the United Nations commemorates the International Day Against Nuclear Tests later this week, the lingering question in the minds of most anti-nuclear activists is whether or not the existing moratorium on testing will continue to be honoured – or occasionally violated with impunity. [P] ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION| SWEDISH
ICAN Australia Shows The Way To Abolish Nukes
Nuclear Abolition News | IDN
By NEENA BHANDARI
SYDNEY (IDN) - Even as the nuclear-armed countries continue to amass new warheads and build and modernise ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them, the campaign for nuclear abolition is growing from strength to strength. [P] ARABIC TEXT VERSION | CHINESE TEXT VERSION | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION | KOREAN TEXT VERSION | TURKISH
Iran and P5+1 Talk About New Nuclear Talks
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By JAYA RAMACHANDRAN
BERLIN (IDN) - Preparations are afoot for a new, and perhaps a promising, round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) over Tehran’s nuclear energy program. According to Press TV, Kazakhstan is willing to host the negotiations for the third time in succession this year.
