We believe a WMDFZ in the Middle East can be advanced through a treaty-based approach involving three key components:
1) A WMDFZ Treaty—a text freely arrived at by relevant governments and stakeholders through an inclusive process.
2) A Regional Organization—to oversee the treaty’s eventual implementation, verification and compliance.
3) Civil Society Engagement—to advance a robust civil society movement ensuring governments deliver on their commitments to non-proliferation and human security.
In a proactive effort to turn the vision of the Zone into practical steps, we began crafting a living Draft Treaty text that could form the basis for discussion, and we established a preparatory organization named the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO).
"We are hopeful that your country would support the Arab draft resolution," says the June 29 letter to Bildt. "Unfortunately," Sweden was among the EU nations voting to block action on the document last year, Moussa wrote. In Stockholm, Swedish foreign mi
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading T
by Thalif Deen / IPS. "Monday [3.5.2010] an overwhelming majority of U.N. member states - 118 out of 192 - wanted the defiant Jewish state to come clean with its nuclear weapons programme and sign the NPT, which is aimed at halting the spread of these dev
Israel is more likely than not by next July to take military action aimed at curbing Iran's disputed nuclear activities, more than three dozen present and former Israeli policy-makers and other U.S. and Arab state officials indicated in interviews with T
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
Several days after the crisis began on March 11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the expanding threat of a nuclear catastrophe in Japan had changed his thinking on the safety of nuclear power. "It certainly caused me to reconsider the
“Our banks cannot make international transactions anymore,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iranian lawmakers during a bid to protect his economic minister against corruption charges (Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post, Nov. 1).
"According to our November poll, carried out in cooperation with the Dahaf Institute in Israel, only 43 percent of Israeli Jews support a military strike on Iran — even though 90 percent of them think that Iran will eventually acquire nuclear weapons." By SHIBLEY TELHAMI and STEVEN KULL Published: January 15, 2012 Most important, when asked whether it would be better for both Israel and Iran to have the bomb, or for neither to have it, 65 percent of Israeli Jews said neither. And a remarkable 64 percent favored the idea of a nuclear-free zone, even when it was explained that this would mean Israel giving up its nuclear weapons.
Sylvia Bjon, Hbl 24.5.. "Medan förhandlingarna om Irans kärnprogram fortsatt i Bagdad den här veckan pågår parallellt processen att arrangera en kongress om ett kärnvapenfritt Mellanöstern. Kongressen ska äga rum i Finland, eventuellt i december i år. I höstas utnämnde FN:s generalsekreterare Ban Ki-moon understatssekreterare Jaakko Laajava till förmedlare, och han har sedan dess åkt skytteltrafik mellan de deltagande länderna. Förutom de fem officiella kärnvapenländerna deltar hela Arabförbundet. Utanför ramarna faller dock Indien och Pakistan."
16.12.2012 Ulkoministeri Tuomioja kiitti puheenvuorossaan kansalaisyhteiskunnan panosta prosessin tukijana ja ymmärsi pettymyksen aikataulun muutoksesta Tänään sunnuntaina päättynyt kansalaisyhteiskunnan konferenssi Lähi-idän joukkotuhoaseista, The Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction, The Way Forward - Civil Society Input, edellyttää viestissään konferenssin järjestäjille ja fasilitaattorille virallisen Lähi-idän joukkotuhoaseettoman vyöhykkeen perustamista käsittelevän konferenssin järjestämistä välittömästi.