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New Disarmament Agenda Recognizes CTBT’s Intrinsic Role<\/a>
Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu\"Photo:The author is High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA<\/a>). Following are extensive excerpts from her keynote speech on May 25, 2018 at the High Level Session of the Second Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT<\/a>)\u00a0Science Diplomacy Symposium<\/a>\u00a0from May 21-June 1, 2018 in Vienna. \u2013 The Editor.<\/em>VIENNA (IDN) \u2013 The\u00a0CTBTO Preparatory Commission<\/a>\u00a0[headed by Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo] continues to play a critical role in promoting the long overdue entry into force of the CTBT.
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What Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Legacy Means For CTBTO<\/a>
Viewpoint by Marzhan Nurzhan\"Photo:The\u00a0CTBTO Youth Group (CYG)<\/a>\u00a0holds its second international conference in Kazakh capital city Astana from August 28-30, 2018. The author is a CYG member from Kazakhstan, a convener of\u00a0Abolition 2000 Youth Network<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0PNND<\/a>\u00a0Coordinator for CIS countries. This article\u00a0first appeared in The Astana Times<\/a>\u00a0on May 29, 2018 with the title ‘Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Legacy and Importance of CTBTO’. It<\/em>\u00a0is being reproduced with the author’s permission. \u2013 The Editor.<\/em>PRAGUE (IDN) \u2013 I am coming from Kazakhstan, the country which inherited around 1,500 nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union making it the 4th biggest nuclear arsenal in the world at the time.
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World Peace Eludes, Nuclear Armageddon Looms<\/a>
Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*\"ImageNEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Lately, we have seen a barrage of international conflicts that have severely undermined the United Nations efforts to maintain peace and security.The British Prime Minister Theresa May \u2013 in total disregard for the noble British norm \u201cinnocent until\u00a0proven guilty\u201d \u2013 rushed to accuse Russia of\u00a0trying to\u00a0poison the Skripals, and provoked an unprecedented ouster of 151 Russian diplomats from UK, U.S. and EU that the Russians dutifully reciprocated.
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ICAN Expects Nuclear Ban Treaty to Enter into Force in 2019<\/a>
By Neena Bhandari\"Photo:SYDNEY (IDN) \u2013 As the world witnesses an increase in nuclear sabre-rattling in 2018, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN<\/a>) is supporting global public movement to put pressure on governments to sign and ratify the\u00a0Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>. ICAN\u2019s Treaty Coordinator Tim Wright (TW) spoke to IDN’s Neena Bhandari (NB) about disarmament, raising awareness about the risk and consequences of nuclear weapons, and why the world needs a nuclear ban treaty more than ever before.\u00a0[P 06]\u00a0ARABIC\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0CHINESE<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0KOREAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/a>SWEDISH<\/a>
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Asian Sympathy Swinging Towards North Korea<\/a>
By Kalinga Seneviratne\"Photo:SINGAPORE (IDN) \u2013 The frenzied moves over the weekend of May 26-27 by leaders of South Korea and North Korea to revive the on-again, off-again North Korea-US summit, and pictures flashed across the region of the two Korean leaders warmly hugging each other for the second time within a month, are rapidly turning public opinion across the region in North Korea\u2019s favour with the United States and President Donald Trump seen as the \u201cevil\u201d.
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Uncertainty Abounds As Trump Cancels Summit With Kim<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Image:BERLIN | GENEVA (IDN) \u2013 May 24, 2018 smacks of a ‘historic day’ marked by a smokescreen of uncertainty and speculations in the aftermath of U.S. President Donald Trump calling off his summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea.The situation has prompted United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres to remark that he is “deeply concerned.” Speaking in Geneva on May 24, where he\u00a0unveiled<\/a>\u00a0his new Agenda for Disarmament entitled,\u00a0Securing Our Common Future<\/em><\/a>, at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, Guterres called on the U.S. and North Korea “to continue their dialogue to find a path to the peaceful and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
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The ‘Libyan Model’ is Unhelpful: Korea needs its Own Process for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament<\/a>
Viewpoint by Rebecca Johnson*\"Photo:SEOUL (IDN) \u2013 I’m now in Seoul, taking part in the peace actions and international meetings organised by\u00a0Women Cross the DMZ<\/a>, referring to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.News has been dominated by fears that the US National Security Advisor,\u00a0John Bolton<\/a>, may have jeopardised the hoped-for Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. Was this Bolton’s intention?\u00a0Japanese<\/a>
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Thwart Saudi Threat To Acquire Nuclear Weapons<\/a>
By Daryl G. Kimball and Thomas Countryman\"Photo:Following is the text of Statement from Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of\u00a0the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and its Board of Directors\u00a0Chairman and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation,Thomas Countryman,\u2013 The Editor<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 We are deeply disappointed by the counterproductive response from the Trump administration to the statements from senior Saudi officials threatening to pursue nuclear weapons in violation of their nonproliferation commitments.
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The Bumpy Road to Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Process<\/a>
By Sergio DuarteThe writer is President of\u00a0Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs<\/a>.<\/em>\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 On July 1, 2018 the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT<\/a>) will celebrate the fiftieth aniversary of its opening for signature. Although criticised as discriminatory for establishing different rights and obligations for nuclear and non-nuclear Parties, since that date in 1968 a total of 191 States have acceded to the Treaty, making it one of the most successful instruments in the field of arms control.
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Nuclear Weapon States’ Long Arm Seen Behind Deferral of Landmark UN Conference<\/a>
By Alyn Ware*\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 May 14, 2018 was supposed to see the opening at the United Nations of a three-day High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, scheduled to discuss\u00a0“effective nuclear disarmament measures to achieve the total elimination of nuclear weapons, including, in particular, on a comprehensive convention on nuclear weapons.”<\/em>The UN General Assembly decided five years ago to hold such a conference in 2018, following a series of annual, one-day, high-level meetings at the United Nations.\u00a0[P 05]\u00a0GERMAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION\u00a0VERSION<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>PDF<\/a>
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CTBTO Must Credibly Confirm Dismantling & Closure of DPRK Nuclear-Weapon Test Site<\/a>
By Tariq Rauf *\"Image:While North Korea has invited journalists from a handful of countries to witness the dismantling and closure of its nuclear-weapon test site at Punggye Ri, only the Vienna-based\u00a0<\/em>Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has the required expertise,\u00a0<\/em>verification technology<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and credibility to confirm the closure of the Punggye Ri test site.Contrary to popular belief, the highly competent\u00a0International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)<\/a>\u00a0has expertise only in monitoring and verification of civilian nuclear programmes, but not in the areas of dismantling of nuclear weapons and dismantling of nuclear-weapon test sites.The IAEA monitors the \u201cupstream\u201d dimension of nuclear weapons development<\/a>\u00a0while the CTBT is intended to monitor the \u201cdownstream\u201d final proof of a State’s intention to develop nuclear weapons \u2013 that is, the actual nuclear test explosion.<\/em>
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Experts Predict Vast Ramifications of US Pullout From Iran Nuclear Deal<\/a>
By Santo D. Banerjee\"\"NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0decision<\/a>\u00a0to abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal is fraught with multiple imponderables, according to experts. It’s “a costly mistake that can hold wide-ranging ramifications beyond its strictly nuclear parameters,” declared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner\u00a0Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs<\/a>.The decision “not only blows up a functioning agreement, it also deals a significant blow to U.S. credibility as a partner in contract and diplomacy,” warned the 2017 Nobel Peace laureate\u00a0ICAN<\/a>\u00a0(the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons).\u00a0[P 04]\u00a0ARABIC<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION VERSION<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>PDF<\/a>
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Canada Slams U.S. Decision to Quit Iran Nuclear Accord<\/a>
By Suresh Jaura\"Photo:TORONTO (IDN) \u2013 In 2012, Canada abandoned diplomatic ties with Iran and closed its embassy in Tehran. Former Canadian minister of foreign affairs, John Baird, cited Iran\u2019s support for the Assad regime during the Syrian Civil War and non-compliance with United Nations resolutions on its nuclear program, recalls Katie Dangerfield writing in\u00a0Global News<\/a>.When the Iran nuclear deal was created in July 2015, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was skeptical of the agreement between Iran and the P5+1 nations (US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany). However, after Prime Minister Trudeau was elected in October 2015, he promised to restore ties between Iran and Canada, Dangerfield adds.
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Iran Nuclear Deal Withdrawal ‘Misguided’, ‘Serious Mistake’<\/a>
Viewpoint by Barack Obama\"PhotoThe following is the text of former President Barack Obama’s remarks on his successor Donald Trump’s decision on May 8, 2018 to withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal. The original appeared on Obama’s Facebook\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/barackobama\/posts\/10155854913976749<\/a>\u00a0– The Editor<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 There are few issues more important to the security of the United States than the potential spread of nuclear weapons, or the potential for even more destructive war in the Middle East. That\u2019s why the United States negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the first place.
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