10 Nations Seek Nuclear-Weapon Fuel Limits

10 Nations Seek Nuclear-Weapon Fuel Limits

The Nonproliferation and Disarmament Initiative's 10 member nations on Saturday pressed the world's nuclear powers and other states to establish and observe a nonbinding halt on manufacturing atomic ingredients for use in weapons (see GSN, June 15).
The foreign ministers for the countries in a collective 23-point statement voiced "deep concern and frustration" over a years-old deadlock at the international Conference on Disarmament, and urged the 65-nation forum to pursue an agenda including a prompt start to discussions on a fissile material cutoff treaty.
"Such a treaty remains an essential step towards a world without nuclear weapons," said the chief envoys for Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The officials met late last week in Istanbul, Turkey.