EU's Ashton to host meeting on Iran in Brussels on Nov. 21
Source: Reuters Original author(s): Fredrik Dahl Original post date: 15 November 2012EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will host a meeting of representatives of six major powers in Brussels...
View ArticleThe Elusive Consensus
Date: 2 December 2012Tim CaughleyThere are good reasons for the inclusion of the consensus rule in the Conference of Disarmament’s Rules of Procedure. These are discussed below. But the consensus...
View ArticleFrance affirms nuclear weapons arsenal despite looming military cuts
Source: Fox News (US) Original post date: 9 January 2013France's president says the country will maintain its costly nuclear arsenal despite looming military budget cuts, saying the weapons are...
View ArticleNuclear states divided on India joining export control group
Source: Reuters Original author(s): Fredrik Dahl Original post date: 20 March 2013The United States and three other big powers this week argued for allowing nuclear-armed India into an atomic...
View ArticleG8 Foreign Ministers' Meeting Statement, April 2013
Date: 11 April 2013 G8 Foreign Ministers The G8 Foreign Ministers have issued a joint statement following their meeting on 10 and 11 April 2013 in London.IntroductionG8 Foreign Ministers met in...
View ArticleShrinking Europe Military Spending Stirs Concern
Source: New York Times Original author(s): Steven Erlanger Original post date: 22 April 2013Alarmed by years of cuts to military spending, the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, issued...
View ArticleFourth P5 Conference: On the Way to the 2015 NPT Review Conference (Press...
Date: 19 April 2013 P5 states (China, France, Russia, UK, USA) The five Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nuclear-weapon states, or "P5," met in Geneva on April 18-19, 2013 under the...
View ArticleFrance wants 'decisive sanctions' against Iran
Source: SpaceWar.com Original post date: 17 May 2013The United States and European nations should take "decisive sanctions" against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, French Defense...
View ArticleAlistair Burt Ministerial Statement on outcome of "P5" conference - meeting...
Hansard Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation 21 May 2013 Column 70WS The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Alistair...
View ArticleNuclear states developing new weapons in defiance of treaty, report claims
Source: The Guardian (UK) Original author(s): Richard Norton-Taylor Original post date: 3 June 2013All five legally recognised nuclear states as defined by the non-proliferation treaty – China,...
View ArticleFrench nuclear tests 'showered vast area of Polynesia with radioactivity'
Source: The Guardian (UK) Original post date: 3 July 2013French nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1960s and 1970s were far more toxic than has been previously acknowledged and hit a vast...
View ArticleIran, powers to have expert-level nuclear talks in Vienna Oct. 30-31
Source: Reuters Original post date: 25 October 2013Experts from Iran and six world powers will meet in Vienna on Oct. 30-31 to prepare the next round of high-level talks on the contested Iranian...
View ArticleGeneva talks end without deal on Iran's nuclear programme
Source: The Guardian (UK) Original post date: 10 November 2013Three gruelling days of high-level and high-stakes diplomacy came to an end in Geneva with no agreement on Iran's nuclear programme,...
View ArticleFrance's Fabius says West must stand firm in Iran nuclear talks
Source: Reuters Original post date: 21 November 2013France's foreign minister said on Thursday the West needed to be firm in its dealings with Iran over the country's nuclear program, but he was...
View ArticleIran, six world powers clinch breakthrough nuclear deal
Source: Reuters Original post date: 24 November 2013Iran and six world powers reached a breakthrough deal early on Sunday to curb Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for limited sanctions relief,...
View ArticleIran, powers to meet next week on carrying out nuclear deal
Source: Reuters Original post date: 1 December 2013Envoys of Iran and six world powers will meet next week to start working out steps to implement a deal under which Tehran is to curb its nuclear...
View ArticleNo nuclear powers to participate in confab on humanitarian impact
Source: Kyodo News (Japan) Original post date: 12 February 2014The United States, Russia and the three other countries allowed to have nuclear weapons under the existing nonproliferation regime are...
View ArticleNuke Summit Agenda Circumvents Armed Powers
Source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Original post date: 11 February 2014When over 50 world leaders meet in the Netherlands next month for a Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), the primary focus will be on...
View ArticleBanning nuclear weapons: point of no return
Date: 19 February 2014Dr Rebecca Johnson“Nayarit is a point of no return” declared Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, Mexico’s Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, delivering the Chair’s...
View ArticleIran, world powers hold 'substantive and useful' nuclear talks
Source: Reuters Original post date: 7 March 2014Iran and six world powers held "substantive and useful" expert-level talks over Tehran's nuclear program this week, they said on Friday, ahead of a...
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