Nuclear Powers Fail to Agree on U.N. Plan
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AP logo Monday, May 23, 2005 6:59 p.m. ET
By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia, the United States and three other nuclear powers have failed to agree on a joint declaration needed to add momentum to a floundering global conference to tighten controls on nuclear arms, a top Russian delegate said Monday.
Such a statement 'contributed to a compromise on the final document' at the arms conference in 2000, Anatoly Antonov noted. Its endorsement of the 1996 nuclear test-ban treaty, for example, signaled to states without atomic arms that those with them were serious about eventual disarmament.
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But the gulf has widened since between Washington and other nuclear-armed states on such issues as the test ban, which Russia, Britain and France have ratified but the Bush administration rejects. Antonov indicated the differences were stalling agreement on a new declaration.
Antonov spoke at a news briefing as the monthlong conference _ a twice-a-decade gathering to strengthen implementation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty _ entered its final week with prospects dimming that it will produce concrete initiatives to halt the spread of nuclear arms and encourage disarmament.
Far from the U.N. basement conference rooms, nuclear tensions are mounting. European and Iranian negotiators meet Wednesday in Geneva to try to salvage talks in which the Europeans are urging Iran to end a nuclear program with the potential to produce atomic weapons. In Asia, North Korea is pondering its next move in a slow-motion international showdown over its weap"
AP logo Monday, May 23, 2005 6:59 p.m. ET
By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia, the United States and three other nuclear powers have failed to agree on a joint declaration needed to add momentum to a floundering global conference to tighten controls on nuclear arms, a top Russian delegate said Monday.
Such a statement 'contributed to a compromise on the final document' at the arms conference in 2000, Anatoly Antonov noted. Its endorsement of the 1996 nuclear test-ban treaty, for example, signaled to states without atomic arms that those with them were serious about eventual disarmament.
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But the gulf has widened since between Washington and other nuclear-armed states on such issues as the test ban, which Russia, Britain and France have ratified but the Bush administration rejects. Antonov indicated the differences were stalling agreement on a new declaration.
Antonov spoke at a news briefing as the monthlong conference _ a twice-a-decade gathering to strengthen implementation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty _ entered its final week with prospects dimming that it will produce concrete initiatives to halt the spread of nuclear arms and encourage disarmament.
Far from the U.N. basement conference rooms, nuclear tensions are mounting. European and Iranian negotiators meet Wednesday in Geneva to try to salvage talks in which the Europeans are urging Iran to end a nuclear program with the potential to produce atomic weapons. In Asia, North Korea is pondering its next move in a slow-motion international showdown over its weap"
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