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Nuclear Weapons Convention News

1998

• A Threat Mostly To Ourselves By Paul H. Nitze New York Times October 28, 1999 -- It is the presence of nuclear weapons that threatens our existence. I know that the simplest and most direct answer to the problem of nuclear weapons has always been their complete elimination.
• DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY:Final document of the 12th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Durban, South Africa, 2-3 September 1998
• India & Pak call jointly for N-disarmament Viji Sundaram Palo Alto (California) 4 July -- A Joint India-Pakistan resolution calling for global nuclear disarmament was a significant outcome of the third annual United Religious Initiative Global Conference (URI) meeting of nearly 50 countries held here to find ways and means to bring more peace in the world through a multi-faith approach.
• USE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN CRIMINAL COURT'S DEFINITION OF WAR CRIMES, SAY SEVERAL CONFERENCE SPEAKERS 18 June 1998 Press Release L/2882
• IRAN'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER URGES CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT TO ESTABLISH AD HOC COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT 18 June 1998 Press Release DCF/340
• CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS JOINT DECLARATION ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT BY EIGHT FOREIGN MINISTERS 11 June 1998 Press Release DCF/339
• SAF / NUCLEAR Voice of America 09 June 1998 -- EIGHT COUNTRIES -- INCLUDING BRAZIL, IRELAND AND SOUTH AFRICA -- HAVE ISSUED AN URGENT APPEAL FOR THE SPEEDY AND TOTAL ELIMINATION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
• Joint Declaration by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of: Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa and Sweden 08 June 1998
• NUCLEAR PROTEST 27 April 1998 -- Voice of America IN GENEVA, A COALITION OF OVER ONE-THOUSAND PRIVATE GROUPS HAS PRESENTED THE UNITED NATIONS WITH PETITIONS, CARRYING MORE THAN 13 MILLION SIGNATURES, CALLING FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
• WARNER: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT MUST BE PURSUED STEP-BY-STEP Date: 19980401 -- A top Defense Department official says the U.S. goal of nuclear disarmament "will be reached only through realistic, methodical moves forward, as genuine security permits, with each step building on those before it."

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• US Rejects Deadline for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons -- -- 08 February 1996 The US representative to the Conference on Disarmament (CD) Ambassador Stephen Ledogar firmly rejected the idea that the conference was obligated to negotiate a "time-bound framework" for the elimination of nuclear weapons