Russia has demanded the immediate disarmament of those rebels, but Turkey says any disarmament should come only after a political settlement.
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Robert Wood, the U.S. disarmament ambassador, earlier Monday called on Russia to destroy the missile at the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.
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The United States, he explained, has insisted not only on nuclear disarmament but also on US verification of nuclear disarmament before sanctions relief.
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"Insisting on disarmament as a condition for peace will lead to exactly the opposite of disarmament and peace," tweeted MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang.
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He was updated again on Wednesday morning after additional statements emerged from North Korea's disarmament negotiator rejecting the US call for immediate nuclear disarmament, officials said.
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On Wednesday, the President was briefed on additional statements from North Korea's disarmament negotiator rejecting the US call for immediate nuclear disarmament and going after Bolton himself.
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García Robles has played a prominent part in the work of disarmament within the United Nations Organization, both in Geneva and in U.N.O.'s special disarmament sessions.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres unveiled a global disarmament strategy on Thursday just as U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a summit on nuclear disarmament with North Korea's leader.
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"What I would call 'the charm offensive,' frankly, is fooling no-one," U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this week.
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" Without disarmament, she said, "these weapons will be used.
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Talks between on North Korea's nuclear disarmament fell apart in February when President Donald Trump rejected Kim's demand for sweeping sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament at their second summit in Vietnam.
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Russian espionage and nuclear disarmament are back in the news.
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All of these questions are the hard part of disarmament.
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There's a long history of such disarmament proposals, true enough.
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That session was convened to discuss nuclear disarmament by Pyongyang.
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Nor has Mr. Kim offered any detailed plan for disarmament.
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Experts have said that nuclear disarmament could take 15 years.
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But the alternatives — "disarmament" or "nonproliferation" — were just too narrow.
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Going into the summit, Pyongyang repeatedly rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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"Like everything else Kim has done, it is a gesture that mimics disarmament that isn't actually disarmament," said Jeffrey Lewis director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at California's Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
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U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood, addressing the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, called on Wednesday for "concerted action" to pressure North Korea into abandoning its banned nuclear and missile programs by fully enforcing economic sanctions.
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Mr. Touadéra has said he wants to emphasize reconciliation and disarmament.
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After the war, he was a strong supporter of nuclear disarmament.
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Another, "International Law," represents the figure of Christ negotiating world disarmament.
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Our Asian allies play critical role in nuclear non-proliferation & disarmament.
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And what's fascinating to me is that that's total unilateral disarmament.
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It provides independent insight on arms control, disarmament and international security.
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There is a need for disarmament on the streets of America.
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Some of these areas would seem obvious: counterterrorism, disarmament, space exploration.
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Worrisome signs about North Korea's commitment to disarmament have been accumulating.
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The United Nations Conference on Disarmament has been deadlocked for decades.
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It's good to have people who think about North Korean disarmament.
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This solution would be the economic equivalent to total trade disarmament.
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Disarmament is not a pipe dream, but an urgent humanitarian necessity.
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His 88-page disarmament plan, entitled "Securing our common future", set out the problems facing disarmament efforts in each area, and some actions that could be taken, such as beefing up the world's defenses against biological threats.
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Together, these three sites stand as a powerful symbol for nuclear disarmament.
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A U.N. mission will supervise rebel disarmament once an accord is signed.
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Experts caution that disarmament is an unlikely outcome of this specific meeting.
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Experts in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration tell us how to prevent it.
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This disarmament not entirely dissimilar to a master comic's timing—funny, understated.
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I can imagine a wide range of possibilities here, except one: disarmament.
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Trump's calls for nuclear disarmament were also well-known to the Russians.
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The United Nations' disarmament office has warned of heightened risks to peace.
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They worry that not being at the table amounts to unilateral disarmament.
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The membership is divided over the best path forward on nuclear disarmament.
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"Today, proliferation is creating unimaginable danger, and disarmament is paralyzed," he said.
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The missile used solid fuel, which disarmament experts called a significant advance.
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In 6900 and again in 2628, Russia and China introduced a draft Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space in the UN forum that negotiates disarmament agreements, the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
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Relations between the two countries have deteriorated recently as disarmament negotiations have stalled.
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Japan, despite advocating disarmament, relies on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for extended deterrence.
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That movement is the most important initiative for nuclear disarmament in a generation.
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Numerous state security plans and disarmament drives have failed to curb the problem.
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A United Nations mission will supervise rebel disarmament once an accord is signed.
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Mr Pompeo has talked of "major disarmament" within two-and-a-half years.
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North Korea's full disarmament, while long the goal, is unrealistic at this point.
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I would love to see Pyongyang accept unilateral nuclear disarmament, as Libya did.
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Apart from procedures for the FARC's disarmament, the agreement covers just four points.
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He also said Russia was not giving up its responsibilities for nuclear disarmament.
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Officials from both countries also discussed Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions.
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Disarmament also grew out of these gatherings, and Hall's speeches for the organization
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Aside from New START, the disarmament field is a bit of a mess.
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Russia does not see the relationship between disarmament and the lifting of sanctions.
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Mr. Bolton is there to officially withdraw from the I.N.F. nuclear disarmament treaty.
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In Geneva, senior U.S. and Venezuelan diplomats traded jibes at a disarmament conference.
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People who don't understand the importance of cooperation and disarmament should quit politics.
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Reagan and Gorbachev came tantalizing close in 1986 to agreeing on nuclear disarmament.
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But the path to disarmament remained no clearer a day after the meeting.
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The two met at a disarmament camp near the town of Santa Lucía.
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But for the most part, the inspectors said, the disarmament is essentially complete.
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In São Paulo, demonstrators also called for the end of the disarmament statute.
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That is how the rest of the world is moving towards nuclear disarmament.
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Indeed, one wishes the advocates of unilateral disarmament had better studied their history.
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Trump said he would bring up the issue of nuclear disarmament with Putin.
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"I do not believe in unilateral disarmament," she said of running against Republicans.
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On Wednesday, North Korean state media said Trump had also agreed to the North&aposs desire for a step-by-step disarmament process with corresponding U.S. concessions at each step, rather than immediate disarmament as the U.S. had initially sought.
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"The Cold War mentality has come back to drive the security strategy and policy of a major power," China's disarmament ambassador Li Song told the Conference on Disarmament, a long-stalemated arena for arms talks at the United Nations in Geneva.
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The disarmament process will be far from complete by the time of the election.
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It&aposs also a component when dealing with something as important as nuclear disarmament.
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But the talks broke down amid wrangling over how to verify its disarmament steps.
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Disarmament delays and the coca surge are also causing consternation in the United States.
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The two leaders nearly agreed to complete nuclear disarmament, but the talks ultimately failed.
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Per ABC, Putin said that Russia "will be striving to achieve" global nuclear disarmament.
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This is evident in his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev over their nuclear disarmament treaty.
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Trump has threatened to break with Republican and Democratic administrations' bipartisan commitment to disarmament.
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He will be the group's chief lobbyist for nuclear disarmament and military spending issues.
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The US has long floated the idea of economic assistance in return for disarmament.
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Marshall Islands failed as ICJ has no mandate to give any ruling on disarmament.
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But Mr. Trump's calls for nuclear disarmament were also well-known to the Russians.
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The regime will not agree to complete disarmament any time soon, maybe not ever.
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She loved learning about the big topics of the day — Medicare, unions, nuclear disarmament.
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In a time of so many profound worries, why should we prioritize nuclear disarmament?
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FARC's disarmament shows that the government and rebels are committed to the peace deal.
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North Korea and America resumed disarmament talks for the first time in seven months.
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He joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at fifteen and Labour the following year.
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Disarmament is the simpler term, but it elides the complexity of the current situation.
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We believe it necessary to work together further, to interact on the disarmament agenda.
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One cannot therefore fault the administration for somehow losing a diplomatic opportunity for disarmament.
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Many other aspects of Brazil's 2003 gun control law, the Disarmament Statute, remain unaltered.
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A growing number of disarmament advocates and diplomats also have publicly defended the agreement.
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How far could nuclear disarmament advance five, ten years after the treaty is created?
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Trend of less cooperation on disarmament must be reversed and new ways forward explored.
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Before joining the administration, Bolton called the accord "unilateral disarmament" by the United States.
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"Unfortunately, the United States increasingly finds that Russia cannot be trusted to comply with its arms control obligations and that its coercive and malign actions around the globe have increased tensions," Robert Wood, U.S. disarmament ambassador, told the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.
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Harry J. Kazianis: How can Trump find out if North Korea is serious about disarmament?
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But they also worry that Trump is setting expectations for disarmament that won't be met.
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China's disarmament ambassador Fu Cong called for substantive discussions on outer space, leading to negotiations.
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She's big on refugee and missing persons work, as well as nuclear disarmament these days.
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Pompeo is heading to Pyongyang hoping to hammer out a roadmap for its nuclear disarmament.
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Mr Kim probably wants a deal of some sort, though not full disarmament (see article).
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The exchange suggests that talks between the pair on nuclear disarmament are making progress again.
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"Disarmament concerns every country, and all weapons, from hand grenades to H-bombs," he said.
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He fought hard to prevent its ratification, describing it as a form of "unilateral disarmament".
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The bottom line: Inter-Korean diplomacy has offered a path toward normalizing relations and disarmament.
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"There is no mention of America's main goal: North Korean nuclear disarmament," he told me.
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The Republican president, he said, should insist on strong, verifiable disarmament commitments from North Korea.
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He was the first president to make nuclear disarmament a centerpiece of American defense policy.
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In fact, what Pyongyang craves, more than anything else, is nuclear acceptance, not nuclear disarmament.
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The United Nations Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) is exploring legal provisions for nuclear disarmament.
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Opponents of disarmament like to dismiss calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons as unrealistic.
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Leadership analysis might give clues MORE by sitting down with him for nuclear disarmament talks.
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SEOUL, South Korea – An aging North Korean nuclear strategist involved in now-dormant disarmament deals.
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The temptation will be to press for a comprehensive — and probably infeasible — degree of disarmament.
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Steps by the DPRK towards gradual disarmament should be followed by the easing of sanctions.
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Disarmament deals in the past three decades have lowered the temperature of the nuclear confrontation.
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"The North bring up disarmament talks and the withdrawal of U.S. forces", the official said.
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The ability to captivate an audience does not itself pass legislation or make disarmament deals.
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Mr. Bolton has repeatedly cited Libya as a role model for the North's atomic disarmament.
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It describes a partial cap of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs but not disarmament.
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North Korea agreed to resume disarmament talks with America after a hiatus of eight months.
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To reduce campaigning now would require unilateral disarmament, but studios are unlikely to stop spending.
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Nazarbayev not only embraced nuclear disarmament but made it a part of his country's brand.
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Nuclear disarmament proponents meanwhile hope Obama's visit will breath fresh life into a stalled process.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: Read the two paragraphs below, from the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs website: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
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Ju Yong Chol, a North Korean diplomat, spoke at a U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament after the U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said that President Donald Trump's "top priority" was to protect the United States and its allies against the "growing threat" from North Korea.
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He said launching negotiations would revive the Conference on Disarmament, whose members include U.N. Security Council permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, but which has not been able to clinch any disarmament agreements since "the last decade of the 20th Century".
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Does the Kim regime have any intention of following through on its pledges of atomic disarmament?
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What Kim wants when he talks about denuclearization is also a dramatic disarmament in South Korea.
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Mike Pompeo, America's secretary of state, announced a new round of disarmament talks with North Korea.
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Either way, the "complete, verifiable and irreversible disarmament" that America seeks is probably out of reach.
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A few logos of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which Mr Corbyn helped run, were visible.
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Mr Thae argues that Mr Kim has cleverly shifted the emphasis from nuclear disarmament to "peace".
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Kingston Reif is the Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy at the Arms Control Association.
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But there have been worries that North Korea hasn&apost since taken any serious disarmament measures.
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Dissatisfaction with the slow pace of disarmament have thus resulted in tension between states, it added.
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People would come, we would have dinner, discuss politics, everything from nuclear disarmament to civil rights.
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Mr Corbyn is evidently set on reinstating his party's 1980s stance in favour of unilateral disarmament.
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But disarmament will not be easy, judging by the comments of YPG fighters on the ground.
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FARC finalized its disarmament less than a month ago, per the stipulations of the peace accord.
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If true, that would seem to remove a major sticking point to a potential disarmament deal.
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For the Trump foreign policy team, it faces a mission impossible to achieve North Korean disarmament.
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All of this has left regional experts skeptical over the promise of disarmament and normalized relations.
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The joint declaration specifies no timeline for denuclearization nor it does have steps to verify disarmament.
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Faced with international pressure, in 2013 Syria agreed to disarmament, and joined the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Obduracy built on a misunderstanding is hardly a promising foundation for lasting and large-scale disarmament.
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And the 'asks' were huge: North Korean nuclear disarmament and a considerable improvement in trade balance.
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But the deals eventually collapsed amid disputes over how to verify the North&aposs disarmament steps.
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The United States could create tremendous incentives for cooperation around the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process.
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Yes, but: Even if disarmament is unlikely, a shift in tactics could significantly limit the threat.
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FARC commanders have said they will remain "faithful" to the accord which sets out their disarmament.
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Mr. Kim even surprised the South Koreans with his willingness to start negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has long rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, instead referring to the denuclearisation of the peninsula.
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Mr. Putin also reiterated Russian backing for a gradual process of trading disarmament for sanctions relief.
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Mr. Kim's travels to Russia come as negotiations over nuclear disarmament deteriorate with the United States.
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Democratic fear of divisiveness — even as Republicans gleefully embrace it — is leading to unilateral political disarmament.
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Everyone agrees that such a program of disarmament would involve the North's surrendering its nuclear arms.
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Kingston Reif is the director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy at the Arms Control Association.
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After the meeting both sides declared a new friendship and made vague pledges of nuclear disarmament.
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Moreover, policymakers should urge disarmament talks with all major powers and reinstate the Iran nuclear deal.
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Mr. Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought total disarmament at a 1986 summit meeting.
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The IAEA deals with verifying that nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes, rather than with disarmament.
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On Monday, it took up the rotating presidency of the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament.
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The statement was organized by the Arms Control Association, a disarmament advocacy group based in Washington.
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North's Foreign Ministry accused the United States of making "gangster-like" demands for its unilateral disarmament.
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Introduced in 2003, Brazil's disarmament statute made it more difficult and expensive to legally possess firearms.
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Moreover, Russia's official stance on future arms control is essentially unilateral U.S nuclear and conventional disarmament.
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The pariah state has promised disarmament more than once, only to repeatedly backtrack on its commitments.
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But they say that refusing to offer incentives at all is the equivalent of unilateral disarmament.
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North Korea has often rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, instead referring to the denuclearization of the peninsula.
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Their first summit last June in Singapore ended without substantive agreements on the North's nuclear disarmament and triggered a months-long stalemate in negotiations as Washington and Pyongyang struggled with the sequencing of North Korea's nuclear disarmament and the removal of U.S.-led sanctions against the North.
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The missiles were idled by nuclear disarmament treaties between the United States and Russia in the 1990s.
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North&aposs Foreign Ministry accused the United States of making "gangster-like" demands for its unilateral disarmament.
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If free-trade agreements are a form of commercial disarmament, the USMCA introduces something like concealed carry.
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The Obama administration at the time denied any connection between the intervention and the previous nuclear disarmament.
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Bolton has repeatedly suggested the Libya model of unilateral disarmament for North Korea, most recently on Sunday.
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Mr Trump says that sanctions on the North will remain until the process of disarmament is irreversible.
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament denounced the church service as "morally repugnant" and staged a "die-in".
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The bargain that underlies the peace deal—political participation in return for disarmament—is likely to survive.
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Once there, Mr Trump suggests, he should present a plan for complete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament.
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Deputy disarmament chief Thomas Markram briefed the U.N. Security Council behind closed doors Thursday on the report.
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Instead, a gradual reduction of nuclear forces remains the only path to eventual disarmament, the U.S. stipulates.
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"The discontinuance of the nuclear test is an important process moving towards global nuclear disarmament," KCNA said.
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An interstate compact that functions a lot like a multilateral disarmament treaty would help eliminate corporate handouts.
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That means finding a compromise to preserve the cease-fire and move toward disarmament of the insurgency.
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Players speculated that the buggy nukes might be part of a disarmament or anti-nuclear war event.
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Still, it remained in force as a cornerstone of the disarmament agreements of the late Soviet period.
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" He writes of "unilateral diplomatic disarmament" under Trump, born of "equal parts ideological contempt and stubborn incompetence.
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Is President Trump really just relying on his personal bond with Kim Jong-un to deliver disarmament?
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And one thing to keep in mind: Nuclear disarmament in North Korea would be a monumental task.
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He offered a liberal internationalist vision -- emphasizing multilateralism, negotiation and disarmament -- after eight years of aggressive militarism.
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"I do not believe in unilateral disarmament," she said when she announced it in February on MSNBC.
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And an objective shared by all three — North Korea's nuclear disarmament — may see little or no progress.
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His successor opted for negotiations in Cuba to grant political legitimacy to the FARC for official disarmament.
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Mr. Trump last week disavowed Mr. Bolton's remarks, but never referred to Libya's voluntary disarmament in 2003.
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Maas said it was imperative to create a disarmament regime that included emerging weapons systems and China.
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You should see that if both sides go ahead with disarmament, there can be no Star Wars.
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Almost assuredly, negotiations will again crash, with nothing to show for genuine disarmament of the Pyongyang menace.
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Compacts, then, are multilateral disarmament agreements that would help suffocate poor fiscal policy choices among competing states.
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The global disarmament forum that developed the convention on chemical weapons gained a new leader Monday: Syria.
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Previous negotiations with Kim have produced monster publicity and very little in the way of nuclear disarmament.
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Disarmament campaigns in 2004 also led to the voluntary surrender of firearms in 2,000 locations throughout Brazil.
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"They (nuclear weapons) have to be light and small to go further," said Ramesh Thakur, director of the Center for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy and co-convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
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BONGINO: His resume on international nuclear disarmament talks, though, I am reasonably confident, Laura, it&aposs quite thin.
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U.S. Disarmament Ambassador Robert Wood condemned the tests as North Korea's latest violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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Many calls for civility are simply calls for unilateral disarmament from those protesting injustices and abuses of power.
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"A possible award would of course depend on the talks leading to a credible disarmament deal," he said.
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In fact, Moniz, the nuclear physicist, handled much of the Iran disarmament deal negotiated by the Obama administration.
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He spoke with Kim Jong-un about nuclear disarmament and a general diffusion of tension with Western powers.
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Xu Guangyu, a senior researcher at the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, said more drills were likely.
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Still, there was never any chance that a deal on nuclear disarmament would be agreed without American input.
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The Berlin Wall fell four years after Fitz-Hume and Millbridge laughed their way through nuclear disarmament talks.
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Harris said the suspension of drills provides "breathing space" for progress in negotiating North Korea&aposs nuclear disarmament.
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All the thorny details about disarmament and inspections and the easing of U.S. sanctions remain to be negotiated.
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Touadera, who has pledged to make peace and disarmament his priorities, will be sworn in on March 25.
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But by his second term, Reagan was engaged in a crucial disarmament dialogue with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Any final deal would be placed before Colombian voters for approval, with a U.N. mission supervising rebel disarmament.
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The feedback loop, in which instability promotes proliferation, brings into sharp focus the need to promote nuclear disarmament.
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Including 1701, the U.N. Security Council has passed at least three legally-binding resolutions calling for Hezbollah's disarmament.
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We reach this point after a sad history of missed opportunities for peace in space and nuclear disarmament.
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The disarmament is seen by many as Howard's greatest achievement in his 11 years as the country's leader.
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Russia had proposed a draft resolution in the 193-member General Assembly's disarmament committee, but missed the Oct.
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The U.S. also walked out of a disarmament forum last year after Syria assumed the rotating chair position.
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We believe it necessary to work together further to interact on the disarmament agenda, military, and technical cooperation.
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Following the Singapore Summit, we have not seen US disarmament experts substantively engage with their North Korean counterparts.
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Reuters reported that Francis made the remarks at the start of a disarmament conference hosted by the Vatican.
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Americans understand the word as describing North Korea's full nuclear disarmament, which is very difficult to imagine happening.
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If Mr. Kim makes any moves toward disarmament, he is likely to press for security guarantees in exchange.
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Anthony Wier is Legislative Secretary for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says to expect "major disarmament" by the end of the president's first term.
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The sudden turn is also a reminder that North Korea views disarmament very differently from the United States.
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Mr. Trump's announcement put the brakes on disarmament negotiations that had been hurtling ahead at an unprecedented pace.
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The ACDA's existence meant arms control and disarmament would not become lost in bureaucratic fights between other departments.
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His mother worked at a gift shop; her parents were actively involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the name of an organization that monitors nuclear weapons and disarmament.
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In the meanwhile, the United States should cooperate with other countries in developing methods for nuclear disarmament verification.
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"The national security objective for the United States was clear; it was disarmament of Saddam Hussein," he said.
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Intentional or not, what has unfolded is becoming a unilateral disarmament of our civilian forces with significant consequences.
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Why not, when faced with an impasse on disarmament measures, sign that agreement to maintain momentum through Hanoi?
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Given that all legal firearms in Venezuela were already registered, complete disarmament should have been an easy task.
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U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told a U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva U.S. President Donald Trump's top priority was to protect the United States and its allies against the "growing threat" from North Korea and America was ready to use "the full range of capabilities" at its disposal.
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Reagan and Gorbachev reached an arms control agreement and Reagan pursued disarmament in the later years of his presidency.
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He had been intensely opposed to the Vietnam War, critical of Richard Nixon, and an advocate for military disarmament.
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" Trump also dismissed the New START agreement, a key US-Russia nuclear disarmament treaty, as "a one-sided deal.
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But since the much-publicized summit, there has been no progress at all towards any sort of atomic disarmament.
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In some battagliolie, pugni and canne fighters would end up facing each other, whether by design or by disarmament.
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It is a critical component of his nuclear disarmament agenda and a major piece of his foreign policy legacy.
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But President George W. Bush lifted the designation in 2008 to smooth the way for aid-for-disarmament negotiations.
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One was in 1980-53, when Michael Foot committed Labour to unilateral nuclear disarmament and shrinking the armed forces.
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"Disarmament processes have slowed and even come to a halt," Guterres told the audience at the Nagasaki peace park.
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This claim is usually employed to depoliticize an admittedly controversial issue and make disarmament seem like simple common sense.
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The protests also included members of local vigilante groups who were demanding inclusion in a disarmament and demobilization program.
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He is now the legislative secretary for nuclear disarmament and defense spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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Whether nuclear disarmament is indeed the final outcome of Tuesday's summit won't be known for years, if not decades.
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Pyongyang has rejected unilateral disarmament and has always couched its language in terms of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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Pyongyang, however, prefers a gradual process of disarmament that goes hand-in-hand with U.S. economic and security concessions.
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If U.S. policy makes disarmament a necessary near-term condition of success, it will likely fail, triggering other actions.
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Russia had viewed the agreement as rendering disarmament irreversible by destroying the fissile materials accumulated during the Cold War.
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KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: The issues of strategic stability and disarmament and arms control, as number one.
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Richard Holwill, a retired U.S. ambassador, was counselor to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1991 to 1993.
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Toure told state radio a disarmament program launched last month in northern regions would be expanded to curb violence.
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In recent days, Kim has cast some doubt on the planned summit as talks of complete nuclear disarmament heightened.
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Dashed hopes for much more – immediate nuclear disarmament by North Korea — could ramp up tensions rather than reduce them.
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Pyongyang has rejected unilateral disarmament and has always couched its language in terms of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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It's possible that feminists, in trying to hold Democrats to standards that they wish were universal, risk unilateral disarmament.
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" The symbol also combined the semaphores, or flag-signaling codes, for the letters "N" and "D," or "Nuclear Disarmament.
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But scrapping that treaty, he said, did not unravel the nuclear disarmament architecture between the United States and Russia.
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We believe it necessary to work together further on — to interact on the disarmament agenda, military and technical cooperation.
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Anne Kemppainen, head of the European Union's disarmament section, also called on North Korea to stick to the talks.
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Top military officials reportedly told him that such a buildup would be prohibitively expensive and violate international disarmament treaties.
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Indeed, "complete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament" has been the goal of every president since 1993 if not earlier.
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We should be in the business of nuclear disarmament right now, which neither of these candidates are talking about.
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Putin provided Trump's negotiators with a list of "specific suggestions" related to nuclear disarmament, the Russian leader said Monday.
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Matthew Bolton, Ph.D., is associate professor of political science at Pace University and director of its International Disarmament Institute.
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Even the briefest recounting of the Pyongyang's disarmament history should convince us to leave the champagne corked for now.
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He even succeeds in achieving world disarmament before he peacefully expires, supposedly leaving the country in a better state.
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But even though both sides have toned down their fiery threats and begun nuclear disarmament talks, the attacks persist.
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The decree reinterprets the country's 2003 Statute of Disarmament passed during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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He currently sits on a United Nations policy committee run by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
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It published a regular magazine in which the scientists who built the bomb made the case for worldwide disarmament.
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What comes next is the signing of a final peace deal, probably before July is out, and then disarmament.
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It's based on the flag-waving signals for the letters "N" (nuclear) and "D" (disarmament), but also evokes a cross.
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The final part of the video involves a discussion of nuclear proliferation, disarmament efforts, and the efficacy of peacekeeping initiatives.
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"If North Korea does something toward denuclearization it expects reciprocal steps and not endless demands for full disarmament," said Putin.
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These changes could water down any nuclear disarmament agreement and turn concrete pledges into statements of intent that are meaningless.
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That's exactly what President Reagan did in nuclear disarmament talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, forcing Gorbachev to back down.
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But his Saudi-backed "March 14" coalition failed to make any progress toward Hezbollah's disarmament as demanded by U.N. resolutions.
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And that doesn't mean there's some kind of unilateral disarmament going and we're doing irresponsible things in the United States.
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The former vice-chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament campaigned on a manifesto pledge to maintain Britain's nuclear deterrent.
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Last week's decree was part of ongoing disarmament campaigns against traffickers that started near Darfur and Blue Nile in October.
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And, indeed, the increased tension between the US and Russia makes it more difficult to make progress toward nuclear disarmament.
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In 2000 Tony Blair asked him to help oversee the disarmament process after the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland.
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The UN's disarmament office has proposed that rivals could swap information on test flights and take other confidence-building measures.
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Both parties spoke about North Korea's nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions, but provided few other details on the meeting.
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Its negotiation stems in part from some nations' disappointment that the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has not led to disarmament.
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Disarmament hopefuls want to use evidence of public acceptance to pressure the nine nuclear-armed countries to eventually sign on.
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The United States, Russia, and other nuclear-armed nations promised more than 37 years ago to work toward total disarmament.
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Mr Corbyn, a veteran campaigner for unilateral nuclear disarmament, is determined to end Labour's commitment to maintaining the nuclear deterrent.
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Trump's newly reported hesitation comes after North Korea released statements last week rejecting the US call for immediate nuclear disarmament.
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Both sides welcomed disarmament proposals, either to collect the "peace dividend" or because they no longer could afford the competition.
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Disarmament is now a dream of the past; both sides are allowing the various SALT and START treaties to expire.
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Mr. Abe is expected to get a political lift, and ordinary Japanese have embraced Mr. Obama's support for nuclear disarmament.
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His comments came as he talked about his relationship with Kim after a summit between the pair on nuclear disarmament.
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The experiences of other states that entered disarmament agreements with the United States further buttress North Korea's skepticism, Lewis says.
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The invitation comes as the U.S. and North Korea prepare for their June 12 summit meeting to discuss nuclear disarmament.
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Administration officials have hinted that they will insist on early disarmament steps by the North before granting any sanctions relief.
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Mr. Lavrov said that Russia does support negotiations over nuclear disarmament with North Korea — Mr. Trump's signature foreign policy initiative.
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Mr. Putin made a public show of support for North Korea on nuclear disarmament, seeming to undermine President Trump's approach.
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The meeting was nearly derailed after Mr. Bolton made comments suggesting North Korea should follow a "Libya model" for disarmament.
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More countries have ratified the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance.
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Even after John Bolton departed as national security adviser, hardline factions insist on complete, irreversible, verifiable, and fast nuclear disarmament.
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It included overhauling the war on drugs, nuclear disarmament, improving public education and universal healthcare -- issues that still resonate today.
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Some experts said that this theater, rather than the grinding business of nuclear disarmament, is what appeals to Mr. Trump.
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Later that year, McCloy presented a bill creating an Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, which Congress passed in September 1961.
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A final challenge is how to sustain global institutions aimed at non-proliferation and disarmament in an increasingly multipolar world.
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Dr. Oreskes said the closest parallel to Saturday's protests were the demonstrations for nuclear disarmament in the 1950s and '60s.
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The nuclear-armed states' policy of disregarding the treaty, alongside their disarmament commitments, is therefore bound to create more resistance.
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After graduation, he worked at the British Foreign Office and was secretary to the British delegation at major disarmament talks.
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"The Minuteman III remains a reliable system," said Reif Kingston, director of disarmament and threat reduction policy for the ACA.
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U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told the forum that Washington would never recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapon state.
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We discussed why this push is unfolding now, her hopes for the treaty, and what comes next for nuclear disarmament.
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A nuclear disarmament activist, Dr. Arce often met with the former president, who was an important supporter of the cause.
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Mr. Kim is seeking support for sanctions relief and a gradual approach to nuclear disarmament that the Trump administration opposes.
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North Korea, which is believed to have tested six nuclear weapons, has said it will dismantle its only known nuclear test site this month ahead of a meeting on June 12 between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. "Discontinuation of nuclear tests and follow up measures are an important process for global disarmament and DPRK will join international disarmament efforts for a total ban on nuclear tests," Han told the disarmament forum, using his country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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His main achievement was an even emptier nuclear disarmament pledge than those Kim's predecessors made in 1994 and 2005 and violated.
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The 65-nation conference is the world&aposs most important disarmament negotiating forum, though it has achieved little in recent years.
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Moreover, at the third summit held in Pyongyang in last September, the world anticipated the possibility of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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When that was started last year, there was little prospect of a Trump-Kim summit or of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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She previously worked as an English-language interpreter for a North Korean delegation attending now-stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.
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Every single promise Kim Jong Un and his father have made on nuclear disarmament has turned out to be a lie.
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Obama's main goal in Hiroshima was to showcase his nuclear disarmament agenda, for which he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
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But disarmament experts who watched the Korean leaders meet in the DMZ agreed that Mr. Kim had been driving the events.
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While that happens, they will maintain the ceasefire (and the UN its mission to monitor both this and the guerrillas' disarmament).
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Unlike nuclear treaties, conventional-arms-control regimes focus on making sure weapons aren't sold to irresponsible users, rather than promoting disarmament.
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That also surprises me; that the rebel forces would want Rashad dead so badly that they would agree to nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea's envoy to a disarmament conference in Geneva, Ju Yong Chol, reiterated North Korea's stance on talks earlier on Tuesday.
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Gill, a former disarmament ambassador for India, sought to quell the rising hysteria sparked by a vision of murderous drone armies.
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And fourth, there should be an immediate ceasefire in South Sudan and a process of disarmament to stop this human carnage.
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Known as the NPT, the agreement is focused on curbing the spread of nukes with complete disarmament as its end goal.
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"But with little visible appetite for disarmament from nuclear-weapon states, this bargain is increasingly called into question," warned UNA-UK.
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The only way to change this equation is to persuade Pyongyang that its regime preservation is dependent on reform and disarmament.
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This would mean the removal of the US "nuclear umbrella" over South Korea, not just the unilateral disarmament of North Korea.
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He is former director of proliferation and arms control in the British Ministry of Defence and U.N. disarmament commissioner for Iraq.
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He instead framed the May 27 visit as a chance to honor the dead and support the cause of nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has indicated in recent years that it can discuss its nuclear disarmament only in the context of global denuclearization.
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Pompeo has previously said the United States wants North Korea to take "major" disarmament steps before Trump completes his first term.
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The United States walked out of a United Nations Conference on Disarmament Tuesday to protest Venezuela chairing the session, Reuters reported.
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He also advised on North Korea negotiations as counselor of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1994 to 1997.
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U.S. officials demand North Korea first take significant steps toward disarmament before they will relinquish the leverage provided by the sanctions.
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"The U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted," the report said.
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Trump and Kim still need to agree on principles of disarmament, create a timetable for implementation and develop stringent verification measures.
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But many of the details, like when disarmament would take place and who would collect the weapons, continue to bedevil negotiators.
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Trump has met twice with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but Kim has yet to agree to a disarmament deal.
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"You're delegating the decision to kill to a machine," said Thomas Hajnoczi, the head of disarmament department for the Austrian government.
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Some Chinese analysts said Mr. Xi aims to revive disarmament talks between Mr. Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader.
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For Mr. Trump, they said, a deal with Mr. Kim would not just be about the nuts and bolts of disarmament.
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"The upcoming negotiations will be arms control to constrain the North Korean program, not disarmament to eliminate it," Mr. Litwak said.
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The Treaty represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States.
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Mr. Trump subsequently disavowed Mr. Bolton's remarks, acknowledging that Libya's voluntary disarmament in 2003 did nothing to protect its leader, Col.
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North Korea suspended tests of long-range missiles early last year, and last month agreed to restart disarmament talks with America.
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In Geneva, Robert A. Wood, the American ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, said the United States remained open to dialogue.
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And so even as the situation has changed, many American policymakers have repurposed "denuclearization" as a synonym for North Korea's disarmament.
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Liberals are in the midst of war — and in it, giving up identity politics amounts to a kind of unilateral disarmament.
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Kang Kyung-wha, addressing the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, said the goal remained complete denuclearisation on the divided Korean peninsula.
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Some disarmament experts suggested that Mr. Guterres's report decreased the possibility of United Nations penalties against Iran over its missile development.
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It is a striking example of collective action specifically intended to reduce the suffering of civilians in war through humanitarian disarmament.
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They will be freed of fear of nuclear aggression if they can change their international focus from nuclear disarmament to nonproliferation.
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But critics note Obama has made scant progress towards nuclear disarmament and is spending heavily to modernize the U.S. atomic arsenal.
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The conference has also negotiated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament efforts, and the convention against biological weapons.
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Critics argue that the upgrades are too costly, unnecessary, and counter to the long-term global goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Moon officially supports the enforcement of United Nations sanctions as a tool to bring the North to nuclear disarmament talks.
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The clash came at the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament days after the Trump administration said it would expand its nuclear capability.
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No wonder the regime continues to make only aspirational pledges to give it up – never once spelling out the terms of disarmament.
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But they stressed that such a development "wouldn't have necessarily been a springboard" for the resumption of the six-nation disarmament talks.
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It deals with issues ranging from rural development and the drug trade to demobilisation, disarmament and punishment for perpetrators of war crimes.
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Time is short: the FARC's troops cannot remain in limbo indefinitely, nor can the UN team that was to supervise their disarmament.
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As President Obama's special representative for North Korea policy, he sought to persuade the Pyongyang government to enter into nuclear disarmament negotiations.
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Insisting that real incentives wait until after complete disarmament is effectively standing in the way of a whole range of advantageous agreements.
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Soon afterwards, Mr Trump reinstated the meeting, despite the lack of any clear public commitments from the North on disarmament, for example.
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North Korea has promised disarmament again and again over the past 30 years, only to renege each time after pocketing generous inducements.
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In Kano, a village 60km east of Timbuktu, the UN shows off what its DDR (disarmament, demobilisation and rehabilitation) programme has achieved.
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Corbyn was skeptical about the European Union, supported for nationalizing the rail and steel industries, and was committed to unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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He is a former vice-chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who has long campaigned to scrap Britain's Trident nuclear weapons.
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COMING UP TODAY • A discussion of the role of African-Americans in the nuclear disarmament movement at Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Nye Bevan slammed supporters of unilateral nuclear disarmament with a rhetorical flourish about sending a foreign secretary "naked into the conference chamber".
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Previous rulers have promised nuclear disarmament more than once in exchange for economic concessions and aid, only to repeatedly backtrack on commitments.
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If foreign diplomats take them less seriously, it makes any discussion on issues from peacekeeping to trade to nuclear disarmament less productive.
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It would also encourage nuclear disarmament worldwide, while strengthening sanctions against countries like North Korea that test their nuclear weapons, Moniz writes.
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The treaty provisions calling for nuclear as well as general and complete disarmament negotiations have been neglected for nearly half a century.
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Krauss suggested that less spending on nuclear arms, a re-energized effort toward disarmament and engagement of North Korea could all help.
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Her likely successor is the SNP's Gail Robertson, an opponent of Trident and a member of the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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An expert on the United Nations and multilateral diplomacy, he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on disarmament and humanitarian issues in 2013.
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The deep divisions between nuclear haves and have-nots reflect misplaced priorities yet, also put global nuclear disarmament efforts in dim lights.
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First, the Kim government threatened to pull out, blaming the "repugnance" of national security adviser John Bolton and his nuclear disarmament schemes.
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Last week, however, Pyongyang furiously denounced Washington for demanding the North's unilateral disarmament, particularly as a precondition for potential U.S. economic aid.
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National-security aides were unnerved—any such increase would violate a raft of disarmament treaties and set off a global arms race.
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But Pyongyang last week suggested it could withdraw from the talks if the United States pursues "unilateral" nuclear disarmament from North Korea.
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The president on Tuesday said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security advisor John Bolton will lead detailed negotiations over disarmament.
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There's a palpable fear of being on the brink of nuclear war, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has begun to mobilize.
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Washington, however, has argued that North Korea is refusing to push forward on agreed disarmament provisions over demands for U.S. sanction relief.
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In this regard, the administration should learn not only from disarmament successes of the past, but also from our most notable failures.
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During an April summit with Kim in Vladivostok, Putin expressed Russian support for a gradual process of trading disarmament for sanctions relief.
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His father had worked in munitions and the family became incredibly wealthy trading repurposed nuclear weapons initially slated for disarmament and disposal.
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Mr Kim probably wants a deal of some sort, though not full disarmament ... On trade, China would surely prefer accommodation to confrontation.
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"The United States urges Russia to meet and fulfill all of its CWC obligations," Wood told the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.
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A caveat: The vast scope of North Korea's nuclear program means that ending it would be the most challenging disarmament in history.
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Mr. Trump can walk away claiming that the phrase encompasses unilateral "complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement," or disarmament of North Korea's nuclear arsenal.
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"North Korea is attempting to dismiss with a smirk efforts towards disarmament we have assiduously undertaken over the years," Mr. Abe said.
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U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood voiced concern at Pyongyang's remarks and said Washington hoped the North would return to the negotiating table.
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"The U.S. behaviour also threw a wet blanket over our efforts for global disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons," Ju said.
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But even as the U.S. demands nuclear disarmament abroad, it's expanding its own nuclear arsenal — reviving, in the process, fears of doomsday.
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Pope Francis emphasized a "strong link" between human rights and nuclear disarmament while addressing an audience in St. Peter's Square on Sunday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appealed for nuclear disarmament, environmental protection and religious tolerance.
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Wouldn't it be miraculous if North Korea's proposal to talk with United States about abandoning its nuclear arms led to genuine disarmament?
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" One might have hoped that Trump would figure out that, in the context of the Korean peninsula, "denuclearization" did not mean "disarmament.
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Since it is now budget time many voices have emerged arguing for termination of that modernization and what amounts to unilateral disarmament.
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One can see in his likeness the dissolution of a grand empire, disarmament, the face of Louis Vuitton, or a CIA plant.
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Eavis told the Guardian that he believes in Corbyn's policies such as his stance on education, hospitals, social care, and nuclear disarmament.
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"We have repeatedly, during a number of years, and constantly raised a question about substantiative talks on the disarmament issue," Putin said.
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"It's up to the president," Kingston Reif, the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, tells me.
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He told the disarmament committee that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea — North Korea's official name — had hoped for a nuclear-free world.
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Also speaking on the Davos panel titled "Nuclear Brinkmanship", was Senior Fellow for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Vienna Center Angela Kane.
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Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton is also a longtime critic of the accord, once calling it "unilateral disarmament" by the United States.
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Russia and China have continuously promoted several legislative updates –most notably the PPWT at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament — to no avail.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States wants North Korea to take major nuclear disarmament steps within the next two years.
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The goal would be to convince multiple state governments to pass the same deal, ensuring a joint ceasefire instead of a unilateral disarmament.
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Jean-Claude, a former anti-balaka fighter who went through a disarmament program in 2015, lived in Alindao as a farmer until recently.
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Obama's visit will be a symbolic capstone for the nuclear disarmament agenda he laid out in a landmark speech in Prague in 2009.
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Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on arms control and disarmament at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey, California, is a keen exponent of this craft.
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Now the guerrillas' assets will be declared during the six-month disarmament period established in the peace accord should voters approve the measure.
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If people are reminded how their lives could be affected by nuclear weapons, they might be more likely to push for nuclear disarmament.
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Some experts say South Korea can&apost agree on any drastic measures to reduce animosity unless the North takes serious nuclear disarmament steps.
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According to the NPT, non-nuclear signatories are prohibited from developing nuclear weapons while nuclear-armed countries committed to a process of disarmament.
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It also requires bringing Libya's many militias under the TNC's civilian authority, and working toward their demobilization, disarmament and reintegration into Libyan society.
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Once the disarmament process culminates on May 31, those interested in running will need to be at peace with the country's judicial team.
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One would lift the penalties if Russia can demonstrate it's a dependable ally Another would ice the sanctions for concessions in nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has demanded U.S. security guarantees as key conditions for its disarmament, and ending the war is an integral element of that.
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In sharp contrast to the official rhetoric, proponents of nuclear disarmament: the United Kingdom; France; Israel; Russia and the United States voted no.
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Instead of reassuring Washington, Professor Moon's comments smacked of unilateral disarmament and exacerbated concerns that the interests of Washington and Seoul are diverging.
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Had he not attempted disarmament, the Beltway pundits, think-tankers and political opposition would have castigated Trump for passing up a historic opportunity.
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The report said Trump wanted to talk about nuclear disarmament with Putin and that the president-elect wanted to meet him outside Russia.
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North Korea is desperate to win sanctions relief, but U.S. officials have maintained North Korea must first take significant steps toward nuclear disarmament.
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Appearing beside Trump in the Oval Office, Haley touted making progress on issues including trade and nuclear disarmament in Iran and North Korea.
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Category two includes re-humanization, reflexivity (keep means consistent with ends), conflict transformation, acknowledge responsibility for harm, nonviolent direct action and integral disarmament.
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Those doubts intensified publicly last Friday, when a Russian Foreign Ministry disarmament expert, Mikhail Ulyanov, spoke at briefing for United Nations member states.
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The civil action came as North Korea's weapons tests over the past several days have threatened the disarmament discussions that President Trump opened.
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But the United States insists it will never enter any serious negotiations or ease sanctions until the North commits itself to nuclear disarmament.
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Pompeo will travel to Pyongyang for the third time later this week and reportedly will outline a proposed schedule for North Korea's disarmament.
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Analysts broadly consider this a lost opportunity to extract more meaningful concessions from North Korea, such as partial disarmament or intrusive nuclear inspections.
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We have heard the stories of battle lines and "disarmament zones" designated at family dinner tables, and of friendships ended over political loyalties.
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The 17-nation disarmament talks resumed after a two-month recess called to give the United States time to work out treaty language.
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U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood voiced concern at Pyongyang's latest remarks and said Washington hoped the North would return to the negotiating table.
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But South Sudan's government has said it does not have the finances to fund disarmament and the integration of rebels into the army.
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Kingston Reif, who researches nuclear disarmament at the Arms Control Association, pointed out that the United States has long had powerful nuclear capabilities.
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Russia and China have repeatedly submitted drafts of their preferred arms control arrangement to the UN Conference on Disarmament, most recently in 2014.
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The new agreement is partly rooted in the disappointment among non-nuclear-armed nations that the Nonproliferation Treaty's disarmament aspirations have not worked.
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North Korea warned that "our patience has a limit," hinting it may reverse recent disarmament steps it took to build confidence with Washington.
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Hyde Park was the scene of several anti-fascist rallies between the wars; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament attracted 93,000 marchers in 1983.
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" Beijing swiftly denied that account just days later, saying they would "not take part in any trilateral negotiations on a nuclear disarmament agreement.
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Francis denounced nuclear weapons, repeating his position that the mere possession of nuclear weapons is immoral, and Guterres praised the pope's disarmament efforts.
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He promised they would cooperate closely with the special adviser's team to support an inclusive national dialogue, disarmament, security, human rights and development.
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North Korea is already threatening to walk away from the talks if the US won't recognize that nuclear disarmament is off the table.
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What's more, while Russia and the US have reduced their arsenals significantly over the years, neither side has seriously pushed for complete disarmament.
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"This is madness," Kingston Reif, the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, tweeted after seeing Graham's comments.
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The Non-Proliferation Treaty will remain the primary international legal instrument for promoting nuclear disarmament and preventing the further spread of such weapons.
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According to his official biography, he's a trained engineer who joined Russia's Foreign Ministry in 1977, and he's known for his specialization in disarmament.
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Poblete, addressing the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, also urged countries to halt any weapons or military cooperation with North Korea.
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Next, the North will stretch out these negotiation – just for a listing of its nuclear facilities and capabilities, not disarmament – as long as possible.
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U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said Washington had been having "intense" discussions with its three major European allies ahead of the May 12 deadline.
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Edward and Florence's impromptu meet-cute, at an Oxford University nuclear disarmament meeting, suggests a willingness to break free from their parents' conventional mores.
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Holtom was inspired by the "N" and "D" semaphore flag signals — standing for "nuclear disarmament" — and also by his own anguish at the world.
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Aides say Obama's main objective in Hiroshima, where he will lay a wreath at a peace memorial, is to showcase his nuclear disarmament agenda.
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Replacing Trident, the U.K.'s nuclear weapons system, will cost "at least" £205 billion ($295 billion), according to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
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I know that FLI does work with issues like nuclear disarmament, but it made spreading the word about AI safety its first major goal.
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"The suspension of nuclear testing is an important process for global nuclear disarmament," Kim said, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
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Even if the two sides can agree on a definition of denuclearisation, it will present bigger challenges than any previous exercise in managed disarmament.
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Meanwhile, Mr Kim has failed to take even rudimentary steps towards setting up a negotiating process that might eventually lead to large-scale disarmament.
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North Korea was adamant that a reset of relations, including security guarantees and, ideally, relief from sanctions, had to precede any moves towards disarmament.
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One engraving shows the unarmed man stepping on his opponent's foot and simultaneously punching him in the face, apparently as a method of disarmament.
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The failure to get down to nitty-gritty talks had been taken as a sign that North Korea was not really serious about disarmament.
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The plutonium accord is not the cornerstone of post-Cold War U.S.-Russia disarmament, and the practical implications from the suspension will be limited.
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Countries must also work toward nuclear weapon disarmament, while the United States should open better dialogues with countries like Russia, China, and North Korea.
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Steinmeier has also launched a disarmament initiative he hopes will spur Russia and the United States to embark on talks about reducing conventional weapons.
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Speaking at a UN Conference on Disarmament Tuesday, North Korea's diplomat Ju Yong Chol defended their missile tests as legitimate acts of self defense.
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In addition to verifying a bilateral ceasefire and presiding over the FARC's disarmament, the international monitors would also settle any disputes and make recommendations.
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Dr. Matthew Bolton is Associate Chair of Political Science and Director of the International Disarmament Institute, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University.
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Every few weeks, Ocalan sat at a table with H.D.P. leaders and members of Turkey's intelligence ministry, discussing the terms of a P.K.K. disarmament.
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The council's statement last month tiptoed conspicuously around the issue, calling for disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon without mentioning Hezbollah by name.
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U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood said negotiators needed to "look reality in the eye" and accept that nuclear disarmament in the near term was unrealistic.
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In the eyes of Colombians, the credibility of the agreement will turn on the integrity of the special tribunal and effective verification of disarmament.
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Trump would have found it difficult squaring his tough talk and steep demand of total nuclear disarmament with the give-and-take of diplomacy.
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Russia should neither be part of any regional security mechanism, nor be in any way responsible for verifying disarmament of North Korea's nuclear arsenal.
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The long-time Russian foreign minister has previously traveled to Pyongyang, including in 2009 during an earlier round of negotiations on North Korean disarmament.
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But their publicly amicable relationship has done little to expedite the nuclear disarmament of the Korean Peninsula, nor have any of their three meetings.
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North Korea appears to have resumed normal operations at a long-range rocket launch site previously shut down for disarmament purposes, according to analysts.
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A recent opinion poll shows that 76.9 percent of South Koreans support the resumption of the inter-Korean dialog about peace and nuclear disarmament.
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" Ushakov's words were more upbeat than those of a Kremlin spokesman who on Saturday dismissed Trump's proposals on nuclear arms disarmament as "not serious.
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" In September 2017, the NATO ministers were clear when they stated, "The ban treaty is at odds with the existing nonproliferation and disarmament architecture.
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" They said it risks undermining the original treaty, which has been at the "heart of global nonproliferation and disarmament efforts for almost 50 years.
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These keep nuclear disarmament and the capacity of the original treaty to achieve it through arms control and reductions high on the global agenda.
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Some Democrats have argued that the left should "go high" or be the "adults in the room," but this would amount to unilateral disarmament.
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The officials said that Russia, Syria's key military backer in the conflict, bore some of the blame for failing enforce a 2013 disarmament deal.
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The theory was, the country would save itself by surrendering to American demands, including nuclear disarmament, for relief from economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation.
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In 1982, Mr. Graham displeased the Reagan administration when, after a visit to the Soviet Union, he spoke in favor of universal nuclear disarmament.
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Russell's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Council for Peace in Vietnam organized demonstrations in Washington and outside 10 Downing Street in London.
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Kingston Reif, director for disarmament research at the Arms Control Association advocacy group, said the document could bolster a new kind of arms race.
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By touting the Libyan model (nuclear disarmament, then United States-backed regime change), they stoked fears that they should have been working to assuage.
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The diplomat, Han Tae-song, said at a United Nations disarmament conference in Geneva that "pressures or sanctions will never work" on the North.
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" U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said Tuesday that the U.S. would reconsider withdrawing from the INF "should Russia return to full and verifiable compliance.
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North Korea's disarmament is unlikely, except in the broader context of inter-Korean reconciliation and a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War.
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The North Koreans interpreted Bolton's suggestion as a threat as former Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi was ousted and killed years after agreeing to disarmament.
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The pope pointed out what he said was "the strong link between human rights and nuclear disarmament," in comments reported by The Associated Press.
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But in another sense, the summit failed because the Trump administration has maintained an inflexible insistence that immediate disarmament is the only acceptable outcome.
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It could even happen sooner than many people think if the British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, long a nuclear disarmament activist, becomes prime minister.
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Dr. Arce said she had hesitated to come forward also out of fear of alienating Mr. Arias, an important contact in the disarmament crusade.
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His decree undermines efforts to reduce the number of guns in Brazilian society by collecting illegal firearms under a disarmament statute enacted in 2003.
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The new disarmament minister Peters is among a handful of Western politicians to visit North Korea, during a previous tenure as foreign minister in 2005.
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Or, at the very least, a pathway to test Kim's intentions, and find out once and for all if North Korea is serious about disarmament.
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" Gorbachev added that "all agreements aimed at nuclear disarmament and the limitation of nuclear weapons must be preserved for the sake of life on Earth.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, addressing the Conference on Disarmament, said Syria had eliminated its chemical weapons stockpile and placed its arsenal under international control.
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Kerry and the other ministers will visit Peace Memorial Park, a World War II memorial and museum that has become a symbol for nuclear disarmament.
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The two sides are attempting to reach a deal that would be placed before Colombian voters for approval, with a U.N. mission supervising rebel disarmament.
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Saruhashi worked to support female scientists, and in 1958 she co-founded the Society of Japanese Women Scientists, which pushed for nuclear disarmament and peace.
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"If McMaster [and] Trump are serious, God help us" says Kingston Reif, the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association.
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In 1933 Labour's annual conference passed a resolution calling for "the total disarmament of all nations" and pledging never to take part in any war.
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While the talks are independent from those conducted with the FARC, the agenda will cover similar issues, like political participation, disarmament and compensation for victims.
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Trump and Kim's second face-to-face summit ended abruptly early Thursday before they could reach a deal on nuclear disarmament of the Korean Peninsula.
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"To me, right now, it's a lot of bluster," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund, a group that calls for nuclear disarmament.
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Charities that had worked for years on immigration reform, women's rights, peace and disarmament, and mental health issues struggled to participate in this national conversation.
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Pompeo apparently told North Korean negotiators that the United States required full disarmament before giving anything in return during his early July visit to Pyongyang.
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Trump could demand that Kim agree to a complete, verifiable, and irreversible disarmament before agreeing to any relief, which Kim is not likely to accept.
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While lacking key details, the recent announcement concerning nuclear disarmament comes after months of intense pressure from the White House against North Korea's nuclear program.
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Kingston Reif, director for disarmament research at the Arms Control Association advocacy group, said the draft document was a departure from long-standing U.S. policy.
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And her nonproliferation and disarmament work as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security during the Obama administration made our world safer.
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"Since the summit we have learned that North Korea is looking for one thing only from the Trump administration: nuclear acceptance, not disarmament," Kazianis said.
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He also attempted to induce the American president to trade away SDI in exchange for total nuclear disarmament at the Reykjavík Summit in October 1986.
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Unilateral disarmament in the months ahead because of progress in Ukraine would invite Russia to continue to feel emboldened to strike directly at Western capitals.
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GENEVA – The United States is snubbing a session of the U.N.&aposs main disarmament body to protest Syria&aposs turn to hold the rotating presidency.
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"The avenging-women are strong female lead characters who actively disobey the patriarchal culture of disarmament, in an apparently feminist display of empowerment," she writes.
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The Marshall Islands said it was seeking to revive the fading debate about nuclear disarmament and warn about the dangers of a new arms race.
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Walking away from one nuclear disarmament deal while trying to strike another would be a trick, even for a self-proclaimed dealmaker like Mr. Trump.
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One idea could be to discuss a freeze in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which would fall short of current demands for nuclear disarmament.
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Back in 1958, British artist Gerald Holtom designed the symbol for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) on the occasion of its first major march.
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Muammar el-Qaddafi, voluntarily turned over his entire nuclear infrastructure in 2003 and 2004, ought to be the template for the disarmament of North Korea.
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The complexity of the ensuing verification would depend on how extensive a "disarmament" Mr. Trump has in mind — and whether it matches Mr. Kim's definition.
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Under the treaty, states that didn't have nuclear weapons pledged not to develop or acquire them, while those that did committed to eventual nuclear disarmament.
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U.S. and North Korean officials didn't make much headway in negotiations, however, and ending Pyongyang's atomic program would be the most challenging disarmament in history.
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Questions about the verification and inspection process could be even more complicated in North Korea, with which Mr. Trump is soon expected to discuss disarmament.
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What Kim means by "denuclearization on the peninsula" is unlikely to mean the unilateral disarmament of North Korea, to which Kim will probably never agree.
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Complete North Korean nuclear disarmament should remain our official and eventual goal, and most U.S. sanctions should remain in place unless that objective is achieved.
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And even as the U.S. demands nuclear disarmament abroad, it is rejuvenating and expanding its own nuclear capacity — reviving, in the process, fears of doomsday.
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It has the most leverage on the North, and wants to reward it for each step toward nuclear disarmament — an approach the White House rejects.
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It pledged instead that it would "ensure the Syrian presidency cannot inflict damage on the work of the Conference of Disarmament and its subsidiary bodies."
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The idea for a U.S. government office devoted to arms control and disarmament was suggested by several individuals in the late 28500s and early 6900s.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that he would travel to North Korea next week to continue negotiations over the country's nuclear disarmament.
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The takeover led to the disarmament and detainment of police officers and the confiscation of "weapons, ballistic vests, cartridges and communication radios," Álvarez Heredia said.
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If the measures are passed promptly, the guerrilla group's disarmament under the supervision of the United Nations could start before the end of the year.
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New Zealand's Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act of 1987 declared that the country's sea, air and land space were nuclear-free zones.
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Instead, according to the Post interview, Moon said concessions would only be offered to North Korea if the country took clear steps toward nuclear disarmament.
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After exchanging warm letters, the leaders met again in Hanoi, with Mr. Trump offering a grand bargain — an end to all sanctions for full disarmament.
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Vladimir Putin was speaking at the G20 summit in Osaka where he met U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss issues ranging from trade to disarmament.
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I don't believe Kim is talking about any fundamental quid pro quo that would result in North Korea's nuclear disarmament in the near-term future.
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Frustrated with the failure of nuclear weapons states to fulfill their obligations under Article 6 of the NPT, in which "all Parties undertake to pursue good-faith negotiations on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race, to nuclear disarmament, and to general and complete disarmament," a group of non-nuclear nations spearheaded the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017.
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While the Pope did not discuss North Korea or Hawaii, he has frequently spoken about the deadly risks of nuclear war and called for nuclear disarmament.
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" Gorbachev said Sunday that "all agreements aimed at nuclear disarmament and the limitation of nuclear weapons must be preserved for the sake of life on Earth.
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To lose the INF would make the world a more insecure and unstable place, he told the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva.
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The government and rebels are attempting to reach a deal that would be placed before Colombian voters for approval, with a U.N. mission supervising rebel disarmament.
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This time, President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have insisted that North Korea undertake actual disarmament before real financial concessions or even sanctions relief.
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That sounds reminiscent of past U.S. efforts to negotiate North Korea&aposs disarmament with incentives of aid since the mid-1990s — efforts that have ultimately failed.
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Even if the North has no intention of engaging in meaningful disarmament, "it suits all sides to keep pretending that everything is fine," says Mr Lankov.
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He stressed on Friday that the disarmament campaign should be directed at all armed groups and warned that his followers must not be its sole target.
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Mr Pompeo was to meet negotiators in Pyongyang, but President Donald Trump said the talks on nuclear disarmament were not advancing, for which he blamed China.
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It is also my hometown, and so the issue of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation has always had a special resonance for myself and others living here.
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The biggest rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), signed a peace accord late last year and is expected to complete disarmament this week.
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" Unless "a firm foundation" for North Korea's verifiable nuclear disarmament were laid out, he added, most of the other commitments in the agreement were "merely wishes.
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Pyongyang has rejected unilateral disarmament and given no indication that it is willing to go beyond statements of broad support for the concept of universal denuclearization.
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It was actually the United States under Bill Clinton that withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty — that is the major framework for nuclear weapons disarmament.
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By 2005, realizing that Pyongyang was closer to producing a nuclear weapon, Bush sought to negotiate a more comprehensive disarmament agreement – but it was too late.
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In recent months, roaming militias spurred by ethnic and religious rivalries have stepped up violence despite pledges to take part in a government-led disarmament program.
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Behind the scenes, Trump may also insist that the Chinese work to convince the North Korean government in Pyongyang to open nuclear disarmament discussions with Washington.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington wants to see major disarmament of North Korea&aposs nuclear arsenal during President Trump&aposs first term in office.
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According to a U.N. panel of experts, Touadera's Russian adviser has met militia leaders several times to discuss disarmament and the distribution of natural resources revenue.
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The response should be the phased disarmament of Hezbollah, the strengthening of the Lebanese Army, and stronger ties between the U.S. and the Lebanese Armed Forces.
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"The United States appears to be adopting more realistic tactics on nuclear disarmament, but not more realistic objectives," said Mount, at the Federation of American Scientists.
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"Our stuff was all about nuclear weapons, the need for disarmament, the need for the US to participate in the new UN treaty" on nuclear weapons.
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Onodera said that North Korea's disarmament must include more than nuclear weapons and missiles, but also any stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons it may have.
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It can finish a journey started by one of their own, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who believed that ending testing was a step toward global disarmament.
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Speaking to the Conference on Disarmament at the U.N. complex in Geneva, Guterres said many states still wrongly thought that nuclear weapons made the world safer.
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French Ambassador Alice Guitton said Guterres' statement was very timely, but disarmament could not be decreed, it needed to be built with patience, perseverance and realism.
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Agreeing to broad principles in Singapore will be the easier part; negotiating the complex details of disarmament will take years—a challenge for an impatient President.
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China is North Korea's economic lifeline and only major ally, and the Trump administration is pushing Beijing to do more to push the North toward disarmament.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government will give nothing in exchange for disarmament of the Basque militant separatist group ETA, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday.
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"All agreements aimed at nuclear disarmament and limiting nuclear weapons must be preserved, for the sake of preserving life on earth," Mr. Gorbachev said on Sunday.
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He has been especially circumspect on North Korea since he argued, early in his tenure, that Libya could serve as a model for North Korea's disarmament.
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But North Koreans, she writes, tend to mean it as a kind of mutual and incremental disarmament in which the United States also gives up weapons.
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But the US can be pretty confident the entire disarmament process — should the North Korean leader even agree to it — will take longer than a year.
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Several analysts said they expected him to try to revive the failed disarmament talks between Pyongyang and Washington before he meets with Mr. Trump next week.
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Mr. Mattis appears to be as interested in starting a negotiating process, even if disarmament takes years to accomplish, because it would avert a military conflict.
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But his reference late last month to Libya as a model for the disarmament of North Korea proved extremely destabilizing to the preparations for the meeting.
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And that puts enormous pressure on him to achieve a more comprehensive disarmament than his predecessor in the Obama administration, John Kerry, extracted from the Iranians.
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North Korea and the United States made similar, broadly worded commitments in the past, in nuclear disarmament accords signed in 1994 and in 2005, for example.
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Fundamentally, Trump has abandoned bellicose rhetoric and instead embraced the longstanding Democratic position — that we should engage North Korea, even if the result isn't immediate disarmament.
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Disarmament experts say the confusion is at least partly traceable to how the United States historically has defined denuclearization in the context of the Korean conflict.
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Some disarmament experts said Mr. Rouhani was perfectly within his rights to insist that the nuclear agreement could not be renegotiated, even if it had flaws.
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The nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang stalled in February when a summit between Kim and Trump collapsed over mismatched demands in sanctions relief and disarmament.
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Ulrich Kühn is a nonresident fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a research associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.
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Officials there were furious when Mr. Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, floated the disarmament of Libya in 2003 as a precedent for North Korea's denuclearization.
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During the 28503 presidential election, both Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Nelson Rockefeller called for a government agency devoted to arms control and disarmament activities.
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Mr. Fitzpatrick and others say that the United States should pursue such steps only if they point toward North Korean disarmament, but some consider this optimistic.
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And any disarmament deal would by definition be phased in over time — raising the chances it could fall apart, especially with North Korea's history of deceit.
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The same cannot be said of the current policies of the two biggest nuclear-armed states, neither of which is showing serious commitment to nuclear disarmament.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea's latest ballistic missile test that flew over Japan on Tuesday is "another provocation" and a big concern, the U.S. disarmament ambassador said.
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Daryl G. Kimball is the executive director and Kingston Reif is the disarmament and threat reduction policy director of the independent, non-partisan Arms Control Association.
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Like North Korea, where, despite Trump's hyperbole at the Singapore summit with Kim this summer, there has been no confirmed nuclear disarmament by the Hermit Kingdom.
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"There is no more important issue than the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, which must be addressed in a global context," it quoted Mr. Trump as saying.
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But such disarmament has proved to be unpalatable in China, in part, historians say, because of stinging memories of one-sided treaties from an earlier era.
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Total disarmament may be as much a fantasy as militant black revolution, steeped as this country is in the legacy of settler-colonialism, genocide and slavery.
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"THAAD is purely defensive, that is the only defense measure we can take facing the massive threat posed by DPRK," South Korea disarmament ambassador Kim Inchul said.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday on Russia's Channel One network that this was a "diplomatic necessity" given various US-Russia issues, including nuclear disarmament and Syria.
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Such actions could include agreements on a disarmament timetable, verification methods and giving up a certain number of nuclear weapons and long-range missile equipment, Kim said.
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We must break this cycle of lie upon lie once and for all, while testing Kim's intentions to see if he is truly serious about nuclear disarmament.
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Even if they are released, Mr Duque has more red lines: he says he will only discuss disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, and refuses to consider political demands.
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On October 4th Filipe Nyusi, the president, announced that Javier António Perez, an Argentine general who supervised the disarmament of Colombia's FARC guerrillas, would co-ordinate demilitarisation.
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We will need those same forces in greater measure to bring about a nuclear dusk — the complete disarmament of nuclear-armed states and safeguards against future proliferation.
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North Korea has rejected unilateral disarmament and given no indication that it is willing to go beyond statements of broad support for the concept of universal denuclearisation.
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"Syria cannot possibly be using chemical weapons because it very simply has none in its possession," Aala told the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
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In our new political world, vast differences in forms of financing between the two parties (though not in total amounts spent) make mutual disarmament difficult to achieve.
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He said Washington hoped to achieve major disarmament by North Korea within the next 2-1/2 years, within Trump's current presidential term, which ends on Jan.
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With nine nuclear weaponized countries, the paper argues for a disarmament proposal that would reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world to 900 or less.
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The leaders of North and South Korea met for the first time on Friday, struck an accord to work toward peace and pledged to attempt nuclear disarmament.
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A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Institute for Disarmament and Peace issued a statement condemning the United States for its attack on the Syrian airfield.
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Still, it does not mean Pyongyang cannot find ways to advance its nuclear and missile programs while the Trump administration tries to forge a path to disarmament.
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Macron and the pope discussed "protection of the environment, migration, and multilateral commitment to conflict prevention and resolution, especially in relation to disarmament," a Vatican statement said.
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"We are going to bring disarmament and peace," Reverol told reporters, while police officers drilled and sawed at rusty shotguns, home made pistols and some newer weapons.
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Joseph Dunford were consulted on Trump's announcement that the Pentagon will hold off on military exercises with South Korea during ongoing nuclear disarmament negotiations with North Korea.
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In fact, the administration's recent hardline position of demanding full nuclear disarmament before any sanctions relief will only push Kim to strengthen ties with Beijing and Moscow.
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In the Reagan administration, he was a special assistant to the president, had a stint at NASA and served an advisory committee on arms control and disarmament.
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"President Obama should tell the world that he has not forgotten the promise he made in his Prague speech to work for global nuclear disarmament," the Rev.
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South and North Korea agreed to carry out disarmament in a phased manner, as military tension is alleviated and substantial progress is made in military confidence-building.
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U.S. envoys have met with their North Korean counterparts during almost every year in the last decade, yet failed to induce Pyongyang to return to disarmament talks.
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Diana Ohlbaum is Legislative Director for Foreign Policy and Anthony Wier is Legislative Secretary for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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On May 16, however, he issued a statement threatening to scuttle the Kim-Trump summit to protest what he called Washington&aposs push for one-sided disarmament.
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Carefully crafted language structured ambiguity into the treaty regarding the aim of those nations for "good faith negotiations" to pursue arms control and ultimately complete nuclear disarmament.
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But a brief look at the history of the Peace Prize is enough to understand that a "timely reinforcement" will do almost nothing to further nuclear disarmament.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to North Korea on Friday in an effort to hammer out some actual details to push the country toward nuclear disarmament.
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Integral disarmament: The U.S. should defuse our bitterness and hatred toward Iran, refrain from threatening violence or war, and instead gradually diminish military presence in the region.
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Nepram, who once worked for Oxfam, co-founded in 2004 the Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI), an civil society organization working on disarmament and opposing militarization.
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If the North is permitted to keep its weapons until the last stages of disarmament, it would remain a nuclear state for a long while, perhaps years.
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Disarmament advocates consider it a major achievement of the Obama administration, averting a possible military conflict with Iran and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
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Lewis focuses on nuclear nonproliferation, international security, and disarmament, and he is the author of Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age.
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"It's up to the president," Kingston Reif, the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, wrote to me via email in August.
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North Korea has warned the United States that its seizure of a cargo ship from the North could thwart any future disarmament talks between the two countries.
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On Wednesday, China's disarmament ambassador in Geneva accused Washington of sabotaging and tearing up deals and having a "Cold War mentality", and said Washington displayed bullying behavior.
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Mr. Trump's national security adviser, John R. Bolton, infuriated North Korean officials by proposing the voluntary disarmament of Libya in 2003 as a precedent for North Korea.
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A key component of that framework is disarmament, which would require the Houthis to surrender all their weapons, including ballistic missiles and artillery, except for light arms.
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And one thing to keep in mind: The vast scope of North Korea's nuclear program means that ending it would be the most challenging disarmament in history.
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Edward and Florence, who encounter each other at a disarmament meeting on the Oxford University campus, court each other across a small but not inconsequential class divide.
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"A deal is a deal, and Iran has met its nuclear commitments," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a Washington disarmament advocacy group.
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We talk with Nicholas Casey, a correspondent based in South America, about the disarmament of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym, FARC.
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On May 12 there is a deadline for President Trump's administration to decide whether to pull out or to remain in the nuclear disarmament agreement with Iran.
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He modified that view at the United Nations, suggesting that talks were possible once the North began moving toward disarmament, though he did not say how far.
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But after a few years of tightening response times and near-miss incidents, he became the most enthusiastic proponent of nuclear disarmament to occupy the Oval Office.
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As President Donald Trump steps up efforts to engage North Korea in nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department is in the most turmoil since the president's inauguration.
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After the meeting, Mr. Trump said that North Korea was on the road to disarmament, telling reporters he expected they would see major results within six months.
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VICE: Why make the push for a disarmament treaty this year, especially when it seems like the world is struggling just to contain nuclear weapons and conflicts?
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China and Russia have already voiced support for Mr. Kim's gradual approach to disarmament and sanctions relief, something the summit meeting in Vladivostok seemed intended to highlight.
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It is now 71 years since the UN General Assembly, in its very first resolution, advocated the importance of nuclear disarmament and a nuclear weapon-free world.
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China also disapproves of the American policy of maximum pressure on North Korea to force a nuclear disarmament without security guarantees and the lifting of debilitating economic sanctions.
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"He just advised me to add that the [Viktor] Yanukovych government also worked actively with the US on nuclear disarmament and with NATO," Voloshyn told Bloomberg about Manafort.
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A much-anticipated summit between Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in Singapore last year had raised hopes of nuclear disarmament by the North Korea leader.
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"Lighthizer comes from the days before WTO … and a lot of trade people who come from before that era regularly talk about WTO as unilateral disarmament," Freeman said.
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Clinton reached an aid-for-disarmament deal in 28.8 that halted North Korea&aposs plutonium production for eight years, freezing what was then a very small atomic arsenal.
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Pompeo himself has previously said the U.S. wanted North Korea to take "major" disarmament steps in the next two years before Trump completes his first term in office.
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But North Korea still prefers a step-by-step disarmament process with reciprocal concessions and benefits from the United States for each of the North&aposs denuclearization steps.
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Whether this strategy of mutual disarmament is sufficient to avoid another patent war will be clear only when and if blockchains have become a multi-billion dollar business.
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Japan is right to be sceptical about North Korea's sudden conversion to disarmament, says Daniel Sneider of Stanford University, but the danger of Japan's hedging is also clear.
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And while a meeting of the deal's principals is scheduled for Monday morning, FARC's financial disclosures -- and possibly a disarmament campaign that began last week-- have been questioned.
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"The international community stands united in its firm opposition to the DPRK's development and possession of nuclear weapons," Christopher Buck, deputy U.S. disarmament ambassador, told the Geneva talks.
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Negotiators have been unable to agree on the sequencing of concessions by the two parties or to make a start on the technical details of a disarmament deal.
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There is still no solid date set for a further meeting between Trump and Kim, but Pyongyang seems unlikely to acquiesce to U.S. demands for complete nuclear disarmament.
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The summit has been interpreted as a reminder to America that it will need China's help to bring talks with North Korea on disarmament to a successful conclusion.
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Nuclear negotiations have been at a standstill since the collapse of the second Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam in February over disagreements in exchanging sanctions relief and disarmament.
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Even if every nation was to take part in nuclear disarmament, and uranium mining was halted, subsequent generations would still have to deal with all the industry's waste.
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Clinton reached an aid-for-disarmament deal in 1994 that halted North Korea&aposs plutonium production for eight years, freezing what was then a very small atomic arsenal.
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"The threat here is, to me right now, it's a lot of bluster," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund, a group that advocates nuclear disarmament.
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As North Korea shows off its weapons arsenal, a global arms reduction and eventual disarmament — the two goals behind the decades-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty — appear increasingly unlikely.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called on world leaders to work in favor of nuclear disarmament to protect human rights, particularly those of weaker and underprivileged people.
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He recognized, however, that the United States and Russia were not showing enough leadership in the disarmament process and warned against rivalrous nuclear escalation between India and Pakistan.
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North Korea threw the June 12 summit into doubt on Wednesday when it said it may not show up if the U.S. continues to demand "unilateral" nuclear disarmament.
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"The challenges are enormous, but history shows that it has been possible to reach agreement on disarmament and arms control even at the most difficult moments," Guterres said.
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Since the late 183s there have been more than 60 "disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration" (DDR) programmes like Liberia's, aimed at stopping civil wars reigniting, in dozens of countries.
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What guarantees failure, however, is to continue following the stale Washington playbook that has proved so ineffective over the past 25 years: demanding full nuclear disarmament up front.
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Realistically managing expectations, Secretary Pompeo emphasized the United States wanted North Korea to take "major nuclear disarmament steps" before the end of President Trump's first term in 2021.
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Kim has also called for a "phased and synchronous" approach to disarmament -- code for financial concessions from the US and its allies for reciprocal steps from the North.
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Ahead of finalizing the details for a second summit, we should require bilateral US-North Korea expert level disarmament talks to hammer out specific agreements we can announce.
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Rather than achieving some improbable disarmament deal, Trump's focus now appears to be on simply keeping dialogue going, ensuring Kim feels secure enough to avoid restarting those tests.
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"It is very important that the J.I.M. investigations go forward," said Paul F. Walker, director of environmental security and sustainability at Green Cross International, a disarmament advocacy group.
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In Moscow, Mr. Bolton said he had directly criticized Russian officials for meddling in U.S. elections, and that a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia was now outdated.
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By all accounts, Mr. Kim believed Mr. Trump was desperate for a deal and would accept a more gradual approach — a partial disarmament leading to partial sanctions relief.
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Trump on Thursday scrapped the summit after repeated threats by North Korea to pull out over what it saw as confrontational remarks by U.S. officials demanding unilateral disarmament.
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Commonweal people were very much part of the ND [Nuclear Disarmament] movement here in the late 50s and early 60s, and Commonweal acquired many archives from such activists.
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So disarmament happens jointly, in painstakingly negotiated agreements, which also include painstakingly negotiated inspections and monitoring regimes to make sure the other side is holding to their end.
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North Korea: The country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is in Russia today meeting with President Vladimir Putin for the first time to talk about sanctions and nuclear disarmament.
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Those statements, said Kingston Reif, the director of disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, are "the sound of people punching the brakes," he said.
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For Japan, the biggest fear is that future negotiations with North Korea will not lead to substantial disarmament and that Mr. Trump will slowly withdraw from the region.
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"The next four months will allow the government to roll out enough armed forces to re-establish order and achieve disarmament," said Ismael Chaibo, minister of territorial administration.
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Some officials and executives argue that Mr. Tillerson's business-minded approach to Russia could ease tensions, a view questioned by many diplomats, rights groups and advocates of disarmament.
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Pompeo said the day of the Trump-Kim summit he was hopeful there would be major North Korean disarmament by the end of Trump's term in January 2021.
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Mr. Abe has been concerned that Mr. Trump might make a deal with North Korea that would address nuclear disarmament but not Tokyo's worries about short-range missiles.
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Though Syria's leadership of the disarmament group is unlikely to have much effect and is only for four weeks, it is a blow to the conference's public image.
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Syria's leadership of the disarmament group is unlikely to have much effect: The body has been unable to agree on a program of work for the past decade.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran criticized a U.S. move to deploy low-yield nuclear missiles on submarines, saying at a disarmament conference on Tuesday it made nuclear war "more likely".
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran criticized a U.S. move to deploy low-yield nuclear missiles on submarines, saying at a disarmament conference on Tuesday it made nuclear war "more likely".
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But, on the eve of the Monday talks, Ukraine and Russia remain far apart on the sequencing of the plan: what comes first — disengagement and disarmament or elections?
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In his 2011 documentary, updated after the 2016 presidential election, Robert Frye explores the history of the nuclear age, growing global anxiety and grass-roots movements urging disarmament.
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In August, Mozambique's president, Filipe Nyusi, signed a peace agreement with the leader of the country's main opposition group, Renamo, requiring the disarmament of the party's militant wing.
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That platform included more-sweeping nationalization and unilateral nuclear disarmament, and one Labour lawmaker at the time described the 1983 manifesto as "the longest suicide note in history."
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Once, in 1994, he even put forward a sort of disarmament program to solve the problem of breaking ties in the final game of the soccer World Cup.
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The nuclear negotiations broke down in February when Trump rejected Kim's demands for major sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament steps during their second summit in Vietnam.
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In 2186, Barack Obama, the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, gave a speech emphasizing nuclear disarmament and met bombing survivors, embracing one elderly man, who wept.
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Japan stresses its unique status as the only nation to suffer atomic attacks and advocates disarmament, but nonetheless relies on the U.S. nuclear umbrella as an extended deterrent.
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He was responding to a reporter who had asked about a development in the church's teaching on nuclear weapons, from accepting nuclear deterrence to insisting on total disarmament.
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These talks should concern not only the constitution but also the Taliban's transition to a political movement and the disarmament of their militants, transitional justice and postwar development.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said it is best placed to verify a deal, though it focuses on monitoring nuclear materials and sites rather than disarmament.
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Some members of the Trump administration inflamed these fears in recent months, with Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence talking about the so-called "Libya model" for disarmament.
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The outlook for the meeting soured dramatically this month when North Korea angrily rejected the notion that it would agree to unilateral nuclear disarmament as Washington has demanded.
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They get access to super-secret information and help figure out what the US State Department should do about arms control, nuclear disarmament, and other key international security questions.
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Given such tense sentiment, Londono fears that violence against FARC members could increase in the coming months as they go through the disarmament process and become absorbed into society.
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They said both Trump and Moon should be blamed for not specifying steps and deadlines for North Korea&aposs nuclear disarmament, allowing it time to perfect its weapons program.
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Pompeo said after the Singapore summit the United States hoped to achieve "major disarmament" by North Korea by the end of Trump's current term in office in January 2021.
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Some conservatives are arguing that Trump's business acumen — and even his reality show past — could be helpful in pursuing negotiations with the North Korean government and ultimately achieving disarmament.
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Elsewhere in trade: John Bolton, Mr. Trump's new national security adviser, suggested that the U.S. won't offer sanctions relief to North Korea until the country commits to nuclear disarmament.
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The construction was interpreted as a signal that the country might resume testing missiles if it did not get its way in stalled talks with America about nuclear disarmament.
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Russian diplomats told the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva that Britain may have produced the toxin itself and that Moscow did not owe any explanations.
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North Korea has rejected calls for unilateral disarmament, and has said it is now up to the United States and the international community to make concessions like easing sanctions.
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Both European and North American Green Parties evolved from activist movements in the 1960s that focused on causes including environmentalism, disarmament, nuclear power, nonviolence, reproductive rights and gender equality.
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Its budget appears to be unilateral disarmament in the face of climate change, a modern set of energy security principles, and the competition for global clean energy market share.
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This week, Kim drew a line in the sand for the planned summit with Trump by threatening to cancel if the United States continues to demand "unilateral" nuclear disarmament.
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The penalties are part of the Treasury Department's newest effort to punish North Korea's economic benefactors as the Trump administration looks to achieve a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Whatever it is, it's a sign North Korea is ready to go back to a more antagonistic relationship with the US if nuclear disarmament talks continue to go poorly.
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We deplore the fact that Syria assumed the Presidency of the Conference on Disarmament in May, given its consistent and flagrant disregard of international non-proliferation norms and agreements.
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But he said Kerry would express the sorrow that all feel upon reflection about the bombing and use the occasion to promote President Barack Obama's vision of nuclear disarmament.
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They are just pursuing it with means that make the other feel unsafe — one side with a nuclear deterrent, and the other with coercive means to force unilateral disarmament.
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The islands say the declared states are bound to negotiate disarmament by the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the other states face similar obligations under customary international law.
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In the talks among the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan, he was known for seeking a series of concessions in return for slow disarmament steps.
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According to a report by Reuters, U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told a conference in Geneva that the country has "accelerated" its pursuit of nuclear weapons in recent months.
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Mr. Pompeo will arrive in Pyongyang with a proposed schedule for disarmament that would begin with a declaration by North Korea of all its weapons, production facilities and missiles.
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He had written letters to statesmen in Europe and Asia imploring them to support disarmament, and to Mr. Reagan castigating him for battling left-wing movements in Latin America.
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Iranian officials have ruled out a renegotiation, and all other parties to the accord, as well as many disarmament advocates and nuclear scientists, have reiterated their support for it.
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As talks between the Trump administration and North Korea over nuclear disarmament stall, Japan will look to Mr. Trump for reassurance that the United States remains a staunch ally.
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Speaking with reporters, he said that the Trump administration hoped to complete the "major disarmament" of North Korea within the next 2½ years without defining what that would entail.
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Mr. Bolton traveled to Moscow after Mr. Trump said on Saturday that the United States would withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty, the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
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Mr. Abe has declined to support the treaty, arguing that while eliminating nuclear weapons may be desirable, unilateral disarmament by Japanese allies would only aid North Korea and China.
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But Kingston Reif, director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, said comparing the Iran deal and a potential deal with Saudi Arabia is inaccurate.
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Why are we letting the same arguments be resurrected by disarmament advocates with little real-world defense experience and who think a missile shield is a sword in disguise?
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The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, unveiling an agenda for disarmament in Geneva last week, acknowledged that he could do nothing to change Syria's presidency of the conference.
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TOKYO — Sumiteru Taniguchi, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a teenager and went on to become a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament, died on Wednesday in Nagasaki.
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The rest — such as trading the suspension of nuclear and ballistic missile tests against the suspension of U.S.-South Korean military exercises — are diversions from North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
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Bolton stopped it by insisting on the North's full and complete nuclear disarmament up front, a condition Kim could not accept because his regime cannot survive without its weapons.
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WORK "A Walk in the Woods" NEGOTIATION Several fictional summits on nuclear disarmament, inspired by the 1982 "walk in the woods" between an American diplomat and a Soviet ambassador.
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It was always unrealistic to believe that Pyongyang would move rapidly toward nuclear disarmament without Washington taking concrete steps to end what North Korea sees as a hostile policy.
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"This is a big concern of course to my government and to a number of other governments," Wood said before a session of the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.
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But American leaders should not fear to negotiate or to accept an interim deal on the path to what we still hope will be eventual North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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Attapeu Province, which borders Vietnam and Cambodia, is heavily contaminated with what disarmament experts call unexploded ordnance, which can detonate on unsuspecting civilians even after decades of lurking undisturbed.
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