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UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament<\/a>
By Santo D. Banerjee\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The United Nations has pursued the goal of nuclear disarmament since the adoption of the very first General Assembly resolution in 1946. But aware that countries possessing nuclear weapons have well-funded, long-term plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals, in 2013 the UN declared September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.\u00a0[P 11]\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0PDF |\u00a0<\/a>SPANISH<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/a>THAI<\/a>
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Japan Considers Ways of Shedding the Straitjacket and Go the Whole Hog for Nuclear Abolition<\/a>
By Katsuhiro Asagiri\"PhotoTOKYO (IDN) \u2013 Japan’s profound interest in the international community’s efforts to help usher in a world free of nuclear weapons was underlined in the run-up to the commemoration of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, which was observed first time in 2014 in accordance with a decision of the UN General Assembly.\u00a0[P 10]\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION\u00a0<\/a>PDF\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0SPANISH<\/a>
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The World Needs a Strong Legal Framework for Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>
Viewpoint by Kairat Abdrakhmanov\"Photo:Following are extensive excerpts from the statement by Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the High-level Meeting of the UN Security Council on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Non-proliferation of WMD” on 26 September 2018 in New York.<\/em>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Countering the spread and use of WMD: This goal is close to Kazakhstan\u2019s heart, and is one of the key priorities of my country\u2019s foreign policy. Kazakhstan\u2019s firm and unwavering commitment to international peace and security commenced upon our independence in 1991.
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Peacebuilders for a Nuclear-Weapon Free World<\/a>
Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow*\"Photo:GENEVA (IDN) \u2013 As the world celebrated the UN-designated International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, there were still some 16,000 nuclear weapons in the world, largely in the hands of the United States and the Russian Federation, some on \u201cready alert\u201d.There are plans to \u201cmodernise\u201d nuclear weapons, and there are at least seven other states with nuclear weapons: North Korea, Pakistan, India and China in Asia, Israel in the Middle East and France and the United Kingdom in Europe.
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Upcoming UN General Assembly Promises a Whiff of History<\/a>
By Santo D. Banerjee\"\"NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly opening on September 18 promises to be historic. Not only because its President, Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa Garc\u00e9s, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador, is the fourth woman on the top in the history of the UN\u2019s main deliberative and policy-making body.
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My Life Will Never be the Same Again<\/a>
By Ilya Kursenko\"Photo:ON TRAIN FROM KURCHATOV TO ASTANA (IDN) \u2013 A Russian member of the CTBTO Youth Group, llya Kursenko, attended the five-day\u00a02018 Youth International Conference<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0CTBTO Youth Group<\/a>\u00a0and the Group of Eminent Persons (GEM<\/a>) which concluded on September 2 in Astana, capital city of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan.
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Kudos for Kazakhstan’s ‘Leading Role’ as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty<\/a>
By Santo D. Banerjee\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 The International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) has been observed around the world on August 29 since 2010. A new element was added this year when President of the 72nd session of the General Assembly, Miroslav Laj\u010d\u00e1k, convened a high-level plenary meeting on September 6 “to commemorate and promote” this landmark Day and the Nuclear\u2011Test\u2011Ban Treaty.
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Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind<\/a>
Viewpoint by Dr Lassina Zerbo\"Photo:NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) \u2013 In a keynote address at the High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly to commemorate and promote the International Day Against Nuclear Test on September 6, 2018, CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo exhorted “all countries \u2013 small and large \u2013 that have not yet signed or ratified” the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) “to do so without hesitation.”
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Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race<\/a>
By Daryl G. Kimball\"Photo:The United States and Russia are rushing forward with costly, ambitious plans to upgrade their Cold War nuclear arsenals and develop new types of destabilizing nuclear weapon, writes\u00a0Daryl G. Kimball<\/a>, Executive Director of the\u00a0Arms Control Association<\/a>\u00a0in the<\/em>\u00a0September issue of Arms Control Today<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0The editorial appeared with the caption\u00a0‘Can the U.S. and Russia Avert a New Arms Race?’<\/em>WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) \u2013 Five long years have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama proposed and Russian President Vladimir Putin unfortunately rejected negotiations designed to cut their excessive nuclear stockpiles by one-third below the limits set by the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START<\/a>).
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Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding<\/a>
By Ramesh Jaura\"Photo:BERLIN | VIENNA | ASTANA (IDN) \u2013 The Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Abdrakhmanov and CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo have called on all States Signatories “to spare no effort to ensure that the nuclear test ban becomes legally binding by achieving the entry into force” of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT<\/a>) in limbo for 22 years.\u00a0[P 09]\u00a0JAPANESE TEXT VERSION<\/a>\u00a0PDF\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0MALAY<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN<\/a>

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