Security Council considers North Korea sanctions resolution after missile launches
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to consider a draft resolution to impose sanctions on North Korea following Tuesday's missile launches . The five permanent members agreed that the Council should respond...
Annan cites North Korea, Iran in call to strengthen nuclear treaties
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the world's governments Wednesday to ensure the goal of nuclear non-proliferation by devaluing nuclear weapons and strengthening the treaties to limit and control them. Addressing the opening session of the United Nations Conference...
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...
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...
Iran lawmakers threaten withdrawal from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Iranian lawmakers have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which it signed in 1968, if "the U.N. Secretary General and other members of...
Physicists letter to President Bush on the 'nuclear option' and the NPT
Text of a letter on the "nuclear option" to President George W. Bush from thirteen leading US physicists, including five Nobel Laureates, April 17, 2006 [urging that the US not consider using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of...
US physicists urge Bush to respect Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
A group of prominent physicists has urged President Bush not to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , after recent articles in the Washington Post ...
The UN Security Council Wednesday agreed on a statement demanding that Iran immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program. The statement, which is not legally binding, seeks a report on the extent of Iran's compliance from the International...
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that now that Iran has been referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, some Council action under Chapter VII...
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed the country's ongoing commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to walk away from the treaty on Saturday....
