Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
In Bucharest today, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley indicated they were very pleased by the support they feel the U.S. has gotten from the NATO alliance for its missile defense proposals in Europe.
Rice told journalists: “…we have a breakthrough document on missile defense for the Alliance. Again, [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The U.S. State Department announced today that “At the request of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott has agreed to serve as Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation. In this capacity, Ambassador Wolcott will work with counterparts in other countries to develop international cooperation to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Consistent with the priorities [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
According to a report from the Associated Press, “Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America’s missile defense system. The Pentagon failed to provide ‘enough arguments’ to back its plan to smash the satellite next week with a missile, Russia’s [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
China shot down one of its own “old” space satellites in January 2007 — apparently with hopes of influencing debate at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, where China has been fighting for years to see work begin on a treaty on the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS).
The U.S. has refused, [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The very useful Reaching Critical Will newsletter (a project of the Women’s international league for Peace and Freedom) is reporting that “During the 25 January plenary [of the Conference on Disamament in Geneva], Russian Ambassador Valery Loshchinin announced that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would be visiting the CD in February to submit a proposal [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Reuters has picked up a report on the Itar-Tass news agency quoting First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov as saying on Friday that Russia must achieve nuclear arms parity with the United States: “Military potential, to say nothing of nuclear potential, must be at the proper level if we want … to just stay independent [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The very useful CD (Conference on Disarmament) Report put out by the excellent ReachingCriticalWill project reports on the conclusion of this year’s CD work by implying that there might have been a very slight movement forward.
Reading this CD Report, however, one gets the distinct impression that what is being viewed as progress is a mobbing [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Iranian officials are not showing any of the consternation that might be appropriate, considering the fact that UN Security Council sanctions might be tightened and increased on Iran in the coming week or so, because of Iran’s nuclear (but not weapons, Iranian officials insist) program.
You could hardly tell, from most press coverage, that Iranian officials [...]
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Filed under: Conference on Disarmament, Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, UN Security Council
Posted on February 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
UN SG BAN stubbornly went ahead, pushing his proposal to split the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) into two parts - each to be headed by an Under-Secretary-General.
Ban wrote, in a letter that he asked be circulated as a document of the UN General Assembly, that he hoped the members would expeditiously [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Conference on Disarmament, UN Administration, UN General Assembly, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 13th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Conference on Disarmament — which calls itself, and which is, the world’s only multilateral forum for disamament — has been deadlocked for ten years.
The stand-off is due to disputes that date back to the indefinite (permanent) extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in (NPT) 1997, and the subsequent conclusion of the Comprehensive Test Ban [...]
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