UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned in a speech delivered in Japan Thursday that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty faces a twin crisis of "confidence and complicity":The Treaty embodies a contract between the nuclear weapon States and the rest...
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US introduces draft nuclear treaty at UN disarmament conference
The United States on Thursday introduced a new draft nuclear weapons treaty at a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT) , tabled ...
After Iranian lawmakers on Sunday sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Annan and other members of the UN Security Council failed...
International brief ~ US to request UN resolution on UN peacekeepers in Darfur
Leading Tuesday's international brief, US President George W. Bush has announced that the United States will be asking the UN Security Council to accelerate Sudan's acceptance of UN troops to supplement the...
Ethiopia treason trial of opposition leaders, rights activists begins
A group of 111 opposition politicians, rights activists, aid workers and journalists went on trial Tuesday in Ethiopia on charges of treason, inciting violence and attempting to commit genocide, despite calls from human rights groups for their...
Iran denounces US nuclear 'threats' as violations of international law
Iran Monday denounced what it called US 'threats' of possible military action against it in connection with its development of nuclear technology as illegal and urged UN action. Iranian ambassador to the UN Javad Zarif [official...
BREAKING NEWS ~ IAEA chief reports Iran defying UN on nuclear enrichment
Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency , said Friday that Iran has enriched uranium in defiance of a March UN Security Council demand that it immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program [JURIST...
International brief ~ Thailand judges work to prevent election crisis at request of king
Leading Tuesday's international brief, members of Thailand's Supreme Court have agreed to a request by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej that they take an active role in resolving the country's ongoing election crisis . The...
International brief ~ Iran could face mandatory UN resolution on nuclear compliance
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Iran could be the target of a new UN Security Council resolution mandating compliance with an International Atomic Energy Agency order that Iran cease production of enriched uranium . US,...
Iran nuclear program breaks no law, British MP insists as furor intensifies
Iran is permitted to develop a civil nuclear program and its resumption of uranium processing does not violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a leading British lawmaker said Thursday. Labor Party MP Jeremy Corbyn ,...