A UN General Assembly committee on Thursday approved a resolution that reasserted the UN's concern over the alleged human rights violations occurring in North Korea . In passing the resolution, the committee expressed its...
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IAEA chief urges negotiations to ban nuclear weapons production
Mohamed ElBaradei , Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Monday called for the start of negotiations on the long-stalled Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty , a global treaty banning the further production...
The US boycotted a 3-day UN conference that ended Friday designed to encourage the 11 nuclear countries who have not signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to do so. Thirty-three...
Annan urges nuclear test ban treaty ratification at UN conference
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday called on nations to quickly sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as he opened the fourth conference on bringing the treaty into force....
North Korea agreed Monday to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as the latest round of six-party talks between North Korea, China, Japan, South Korea,...
North Korea would consider return to nuclear treaty if US threats dropped
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has said that North Korea would consider returning to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if the US stops threatening the country, a Russian envoy who recently met with Kim said...
Japanese give defense minister unilateral authority to shoot down missiles
The Japanese parliament passed a measure Friday giving Japanese Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ohno the legal power to shoot down incoming missiles without consulting the prime minister or cabinet. The bill, which passed in the...
In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) a spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry stated Friday that the Korean War Armistice Agreement ending the war in 1953 must be replaced by a peace...
Bush meets with dissidents to highlight rights abuses abroad
In an effort to highlight human rights abuses in certain countries, President Bush has begun meeting with dissidents in an approach similar to the one taken by former President Ronald Reagan in his meetings with Soviet dissidents during the...
A month-long conference at the United Nations to review the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty ended Friday with no consensus. Ambassador Sergio Duarte of Brazil, President of the 2005 NPT Review Conference told a press briefing that...
