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Nuclear Non Proliferation talks stalled by Iran sanctions

Iran sanctions snarl global nuclear talks,  guardian.co.uk, Julian Borger, 20 May 2010, The brisk rejection of a last minute compromise on Iran proposed by Brazil and Turkey has snarled broader UN talks on disarmament and non-proliferation
The rapid flurry of diplomatic activity in the past few days over Iran has collided with the month-long talks in New York on mending the threadbare Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the results have not been pretty. Some observers inside the NPT negotiations are saying the US and other weapons states have sought a quick diplomatic victory over Iran at the expense of the long-term prospects of the global arms control regime.

The Security Council smackdown of Brazil and Turkey’s efforts to secure a compromise over Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile has taken many inside the conference chamber by surprise and triggered a wave of anger over the humiliation of the two countries’ leaders, who had invested considerable political capital in the deal………..

The Turks and Brazilians are of course mightily annoyed, but so are many NAM countries who see this week’s sequence of events as yet one more example of P5 arrogance.

All this has come at a delicate moment at the conference. A deal on how to proceed on a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East remains a key to avoiding another fiasco like 2005 Iran sanctions snarl global nuclear talks | World news | guardian.co.uk

May 20, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, disarmament, nuclear, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons