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Nuclear weapons free zone in Middle East is pivotal issue

Half-time at the NPT | World news | guardian.co.uk16 May, 2010, We are half-way through the negotiating marathon that is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference and the crunch is approaching. The speeches have been made, the working groups set up, and drafts assembled. There are now two weeks left for the tough bargaining between the nuclear haves and have-nots over what the global arms control regime should look like.
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has a very useful summary of the positions of various key countries, from which two main themes emerge: there is an Obama-effect at play, and the idea of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East is becoming a make or break issue………

Half-time at the NPT | World news | guardian.co.uk

May 17, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons