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<\/a>A Role for the UN General Assembly in the Current NATO Russia Crisis<\/a>
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<\/a>By Joan Russow
The writer, Joan Russow, PhD, is Co-Ordinator, Global Compliance Research Project, based in Canada.<\/em>VICTORIA BC, Canada (IDN) \u2014 Over the years, whenever the United States\u2014 with or without the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)\u2014decided to go to war, the US used pretexts for war.Human security to justify the invasion of Iraq in 1991, humanitarian intervention in Kosovo in 1999, Article 51 self-defence, in Afghanistan in 2001 prevention \/pre-emptive strike, in Iraq in 2003, the Responsibility to Protect , in Haiti, in 2004 and in Libya, in 2011. and when all these pretexts were discredited a new one emerged: A Canadian- inspired \u201cthe Will to Intervene.\u201d [2022-02-28]<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>A Conflict Over Ukraine Embroils Four of the World\u2019s Major Nuclear Powers<\/a>\"image\"By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) \u2014 The spiraling crisis in Ukraine has an ominous underlying fact: it is a conflict that involves four of the world\u2019s major nuclear powers: the US, Russia, UK and France, with the remaining five, namely China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel on the sidelines as spectators\u2014at least so far. [2022-02-27]<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Ukraine-Russia: With Activation of NATO Response Force, U.S. Military Ready to Provide Forces<\/a>\"image\"By C. Todd Lopez
This article was issued\u00a0by\u00a0U.S. Department of Defense<\/a>.<\/em>
WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) \u2014 In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on February 25 activation of the alliance’s defense plans, which means also that it can deploy the NATO Defense Force. The U.S. Defense Department now stands ready to provide capabilities to help fill that defense force, if asked to do so, said Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby. [2022-02-26]<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Latin American and Caribbean Countries Support the Nuclear Test Ban<\/a>\"image\"By Reinhard Jacobsen
VIENNA (IDN) \u2014 The Commonwealth of Dominica announced its decision early February to join the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT<\/a>) that bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere\u2014on the Earth’s surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground. The Treaty was signed 26 years ago but it has yet to enter into force. [2022-02-25-28]\u00a0ITALIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PORTUGUESE<\/a><\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Nuclear Disarmament Requires Prompt Resolution, Says a Buddhist Peacebuilder<\/a>\"image\"By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) \u2014 Along with the United Nations, the community-based Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International (SGI<\/a>) offers a beacon of hope particularly when the world is plagued by crises threatening the survival of humankind.Every year since 1983, SGI President\u00a0Daisaku Ikeda<\/a>, a Buddhist philosopher, peacebuilder and educator, has issued a\u00a0peace proposal<\/a>. His latest\u2014and the 40th\u2014titled “Transforming Human History: The Light of Peace and Dignity<\/a>“\u2014was released on January 26. [2022-02-21-27]\u00a0ARABIC<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>A Politically Isolated North Korea Garners Support from two Nuclear Powers at the UN<\/a>\"image\"By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) \u2014 North Korea, long described as a \u201chermit kingdom\u201d, apparently isn\u2019t living in total political isolation or is cut off from the rest of the world.Or so it seems, judging by the failure of the US and some of its UN allies to impose sanctions on five North Korean officials\u2014sanctions really aimed at a country which continues to defy the West with its multiple ballistic nuclear tests. [2022-01-30-26]\u00a0\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NORWEGIAN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SPANISH<\/a><\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Clarion Call for Policies to End the Nuclear Arms Race<\/a>\"image\"By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | PRAGUE (IDN) \u2014 On January 24, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus its very first resolution\u00a0Resolution 1 (I),<\/a>\u00a0which established a commission of the UN Security Council to ensure “the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction”.\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PORTUGUESE<\/a><\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>World’s Major Nuclear Powers Pledge to Avoid Wars\u2014Even as they Continue to Upgrade their Arsenals<\/a>\"image\"By Thalif Deen
NEW YORK (IDN) \u2014 When the world\u2019s five major nuclear powers\u2014the US, UK, China, France and Russia\u2014pledged to prevent nuclear wars and abandon the pursuit of more weapons, their joint statement released January 3 explicitly left out several of the demands from anti-nuclear activists, including an end to the upgrading and enhancing of existing arsenals. [2022-01-09-24]\u00a0CHINESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0GERMAN\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SPANISH<\/a><\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Review Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Stalled due to Rising COVID-19 Infections<\/a>\"image\"By Thalif Deen
NEW YORK (IDN)\u2014 The United Nations, which has been brought to a virtual standstill because of an upsurge in coronavirus infections in New York City, has been forced to postpone a long-awaited 10th review conference (REVCON) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), scheduled to take place 4-28 January.Diane Barnes, NGO Liaison Office at the\u00a0UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)<\/a>, was explicit: “There will be no Review Conference in January 2022, in any format”.\u00a0[2022-01-01-23]\u00a0HINDI<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0RUSSIAN<\/a><\/a><\/th><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Role for the UN General Assembly in the Current NATO Russia CrisisBy Joan RussowThe writer, Joan Russow, PhD, is Co-Ordinator, Global Compliance Research Project, based in Canada.VICTORIA BC, Canada (IDN) \u2014 Over the years, whenever the United States\u2014 with or without the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)\u2014decided to go to war, the US used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newsletter-beyond-nuclear-non-proliferation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}