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UN Chief Favours Implementation of Iran Nuclear Deal<\/a>
By Kelsey Davenport\"Photo:The author is director for nonproliferation policy at the\u00a0Arms Control Association (ACA).<\/a>\u00a0This article was part of the ACA’s Newsletter of June 29, 2018.<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres\u00a0said the nuclear deal with Iran<\/a>\u00a0is at a \u201ccrossroads\u201d and expressed his deep regret over U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from the agreement and reimpose sanctions.
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Experts Accentuate the Significance of Trump-Putin Summit<\/a>
By Jamshed Baruah\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 “We are on the brink of a new cold war,” warned UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres on May 24, 2018 adding that there are no negotiations under way between the U.S. and Russia for further strategic nuclear arms reductions. Whether presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would turn over a new leaf when they meet in Helsinki, Finland on July 16 remains to be seen.
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Revolutionary Change Bringing in DPRK From the Cold<\/a>
Viewpoint by Jayantha Dhanapala*\"Photo:KANDY (IDN) \u2013 Sentosa, the Singapore venue of the historic June 12 summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un, is today an ultra modern pleasure island with a name derived from the Sanskrit \u2018Santosa\u2019, but with its old Malay name Pulao Blakang Mati (Island of Death Behind) clinging to it as a reminder of a murky past as a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and a disease ridden swamp.
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Nuclear Ban Treaty Beacons the End of Nuclear Age<\/a>
Viewpoint by Rebecca Johnson\"Photo:Dr Rebecca Johnson is founding President of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN<\/a>) and director of the\u00a0Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy<\/a>. She contributed this viewpoint as foreword to the publication titled\u00a0‘Toward A World Without Nuclear Weapons’<\/a>\u00a0published by the International Press Syndicate Group with IDN-InDepthNews as its flagship agency, and the\u00a0Global Cooperation Council<\/a>\u00a0as part of a media project with\u00a0Soka Gakkai International (SGI).<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The Editor.<\/em>LONDON (IDN) \u2013 If we survive this turbulent period, histories may record that 2017-18 marked the end of the nuclear age and the beginning \u2013 we hope \u2013 of a new era of peace-building and security.\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>
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A Call To ‘Action Now’ On United Nations Disarmament Agenda<\/a>
By A.L.A. Azeez\"Photo:The writer is Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva. While analysing the UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres’ new disarmament agenda\u00a0entitled<\/em>,\u00a0Securing Our Common Future<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Ambassador Azeez<\/em>\u00a0calls for” the increased availability of disarmament education and fellowship opportunities” to make up for the loss of a generation of professionals and experts in many countries, resulting from “the inaction or lack of progress in disarmament over two decades.<\/em>
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Ulaanbaatar Forum Pleads For Denuclearization Leading To Korean Unification<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Photo:BERLIN | ULAANBAATAR (IDN) \u2013 Korean Unification has not been at the heart of a growing thaw in inter-Korean relations. But it was the centerpiece of the International Forum in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Entitled\u00a0‘Korean Unification through Reduction of Tension and Confidence Building’,\u00a0<\/em>the Forum on June 7-8, 2018 adopted a Statement drawing attention to “the centenary of the Korean Independence Movement” in 2019 and supporting “the goal of peaceful unification of the Korean people.”
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Substance Eludes Kim-Trump Historic Summit<\/a>
By Sergio Duarte\"Photo:The writer is Ambassador, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and President of Pugwash.<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The off-again, on-again meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un which finally took place in Singapore on June 12 was undoubtedly an historic occasion. However, a sober analysis of its outcome can hardly conclude that it was either a success or a failure. Even so, the mere fact that after several weeks of mutual provocations and derogatory exchanges the two leaders agreed to meet in a cordial, almost congenial atmosphere is in itself an auspicious achievement.
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The Trump-Kim Singapore Summit Relieves Tensions, Nuclear Dangers Remain<\/a>
By David Krieger\"Photo:The writer is President of the\u00a0Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/a>. He is the author and editor of many books on peace and nuclear weapons abolition, including \u2018Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action.\u2019 This article\u00a0first appeared<\/a>\u00a0on NAPF. \u2013 The Editor.<\/em>SANTA BARBARA (IDN) – The Singapore Summit was a dramatic turn-around from the adolescent name calling that Trump and Kim had engaged in only months before. Trump had labelled Kim as \u201cLittle Rocket Man,\u201d and Kim had labelled Trump as \u201cDotard.\u201d
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Paving the Way to Denuclearization and Peace with North Korea<\/a>
By Daryl G. Kimball\"Photo:The author is Executive Director of the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a>. Following is the text of an Issue Brief analyzing the prospects beyond the U.S.-North Korean Summit on June 12 in Singapore.<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) \u2013 The South Korean-brokered diplomatic opening between leaders from the United States and the Democratic Peoples\u2019 Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in January 2018 is a welcome shift away from the missile and nuclear tests and \u201cfire and fury\u201d threats of 2017 that brought the region\u00a0to the brink of a catastrophic war<\/a>.
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The Alphabet Soup NPT, CTBT, NBT<\/a>
By Paolo Cotta-Ramusino\"Photo:The writer is Secretary-General of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash<\/a>), an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell founded it in 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of\u00a0the Russell-Einstein Manifesto<\/a>\u00a0in 1955. Rotblat and the Pugwash Conference jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts on nuclear disarmament. \u2013 The Editor.<\/em>
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CTBTO Symposium Underlines Importance of Youth and Women<\/a>
By Reinhardt Jacobsen\"\"VIENNA (IDN) \u2013 “Now more than ever, this type of diplomacy has a particular importance,” said Elba Rosa P\u00e9rez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba, in a high-level session of the\u00a02nd CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium<\/a>\u00a0at the Vienna International Centre.
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UN Chief’s Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Waters<\/a>
By Jayantha Dhanapala\"Photo:The UN Secretary-General’s new Disarmament Agenda\u00a0<\/em>entitled,\u00a0Securing Our Common Future<\/em><\/a>, “seems unlikely to secure our common future with the present actors,” writes\u00a0Jayantha Dhanapala, a retired Ambassador of Sri Lanka and a former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament. “We will either have to wait for a change of actors or search among the debris of failed negotiations for a fresh start. But that depends on the unpredictable Trump and Kim Jong Un,” he adds.\u00a0<\/em>[P 07]\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/a>
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