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U.N. speakers urge Pakistan to free up arms talks

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Heaping pressure on Pakistan, a high-level U.N. meeting called on Friday for talks to start immediately on a treaty to ban production of fissile material used as fuel for nuclear weapons.

But Pakistan has insisted it will continue to block such talks, arguing that a ban would put it at a permanent disadvantage to its nuclear rival India. The dispute has led to deadlock at the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

At the U.N. meeting of some 70 states to discuss the paralysis at the conference, speakers avoided openly naming Pakistan, but several referred to "one country" that was causing the problem.

In a closing summary of the views expressed, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there was "broad agreement on the need to immediately start negotiations on a ... treaty banning the production of fissile material."

Continued impasse could result in states going outside the Geneva conference, known as the "CD," to tackle the issue, Ban warned.

Support has appeared to be growing in Geneva to find another approach -- possibly small-group talks in parallel to CD sessions. A precedent was set when Canada and Norway moved talks on a landmine ban out of the forum, eventually clinching the landmark 1997 Ottawa Treaty.

At Friday's U.N. meeting, Western powers sharply attacked Pakistan's blockage of the CD, which requires consensus for its actions.

"It strikes us as unwarranted for a single country to abuse the consensus principle and thereby frustrate everyone else's desire to resume serious disarmament efforts," said U.S. delegate Gary Samore, a special adviser

Washington understood that all countries needed to protect their security interests, and with that principle in place, "no country need fear the prospect of (fissile material) negotiations," Samore said.

NO CONSENSUS

British junior foreign minister Alistair Burt said blocking the negotiations was "damaging for multilateral arms control."

Launched in 1978, the CD has clinched treaties banning biological and chemical weapons as well as underground nuclear tests. Its members include all five official nuclear powers -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China.

But it has been unable to reach consensus on substantive work for the past 12 years. Pakistan's refusal since January to launch negotiations on fissile material like plutonium and highly enriched uranium is the latest obstacle.

Zamir Akram, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said earlier this month his country would continue to hold out, arguing that India has an unfair advantage with bigger fissile material stockpiles and "discriminatory" nuclear cooperation deals with the United States.

"Pakistan's security concerns can be addressed only once we have developed sufficient capacity to ensure our deterrent is credible in the face of growing asymmetry," he told Reuters. "My instructions are, 'We continue to maintain our position.'"

Pakistan did not speak at Friday's meeting in New York. No decisions were made, but Ban said he would ask a panel of advisers to review the issues raised.

Separately, French delegate Jacques Audibert said Paris would host a meeting of the five official nuclear powers next year to discuss their obligations stemming from a May conference on nuclear non-proliferation.

The conference called on the powers to pursue negotiations ultimately aimed at the total abolition of nuclear weapons.


U.N. speakers urge Pakistan to free up arms talks | World | Reuters
 
Well this will ban all offical nuclear weapon states from producing fissle matterial which would obviously lead to dissolution of Pak and India nuclear weapon stock. While seen as a postive development there is very little trust that India would actually stop fissle material production but may keep doing it underground. Putting Pakistan at a disadvantage with smaller nuclear arsenal "IF" it actually decides to obey the treat.

The second fear is that such treaty may turn into a precursor of Iran like sanctions on Pakistan.

Anyway, UN is a joke and tool of colonial powers. Who said colonism has ended??

One way Pakistan can be pacified is by helping it boosts it conventional defence and airforce, multilateral defence pact and a UN brokered security gurantee against Kashmir.
 
all this talks of de-nuclearization is a waste of time; as is anything coming from IAEA

they showed their toothlessness in spring, 2003.


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U.N. speakers urge Pakistan to free up arms talks

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Heaping pressure on Pakistan, a high-level U.N. meeting called on Friday for talks to start immediately on a treaty to ban production of fissile material used as fuel for nuclear weapons.

But Pakistan has insisted it will continue to block such talks, arguing that a ban would put it at a permanent disadvantage to its nuclear rival India. The dispute has led to deadlock at the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

At the U.N. meeting of some 70 states to discuss the paralysis at the conference, speakers avoided openly naming Pakistan, but several referred to "one country" that was causing the problem.

U.N. speakers urge Pakistan to free up arms talks | World | Reuters

Fair enough, Pakistan is well within its rights to reject the treaty if it feels threatened by India. On the other hand, now it should not be the one complaining about the arms race and India increasing its arsenal since it itself is rejecting disarmament talks.
 
Pakistan can never be pressurized over two matters..First.Nuclear programme and second is the friendship with china....these are the cornerstone of Pakistan foreign policy..Hence, no compromise!
 
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT:

Pakistan won't do it unless India does it
India won't do it unless China does it
China won't do it unless US and Russia do it

US and RUSSIA: NOT GOING TO DO IT!
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The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons should be start from the guys who begin this Nuclear crap and now its seems like it have no end..........

What did i just say :what:
 
if IAEA is serious with denuclearisation, it should first provide a solid security ground work for nations disarming willingly. Or else Iraq like fate awaits everyone. When people talk about nukes they immedeately thinks about ICBMs flying and causing MAD. However nukes have much larger implications on that..a small nuke blasted overhead than take out large contigent of enemy forces landed in your country. Or terrorist hiding in difficult terrain, large formation of ships / destroyers or even an aircraft carrier. However all of that at the expenense of contaminating one's own land.

Iraq war will serve to setback any intention of disarming if there were any in some nation.
 
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