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These discussions are occurring on a bilateral basis, between Russia and the US, and multilaterally, within the context of the so-called P-5 talks, which involve all five permanent United Nations Security Council members – the only countries that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty legally permits to retain nuclear weapons pending universal disarmament.
In short, the growing, bloody challenges of the twenty-first century are to be confronted by a toothless UN, a morally weakened US, and a Europe well on the path toward disarmament.
The Chemical Weapons Convention is one of mankind’s most successful disarmament efforts.
For, if disarmament is to become effective, the signal must come from the top – the US and Russia.
Here, the willingness of nuclear powers to implement their commitment to disarmament, as agreed in the NPT, is of prime importance.
But the political will to act decisively is not there, because the public does not regard nuclear disarmament and arms control as a political priority.
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not questions of the past.
Amid this imperfect framework, many countries have become frustrated by the refusal of NPT signatories to discuss their own disarmament.
Therefore, all sides must urgently rediscover their common interest in practical and effective disarmament.
Of course, the West's ingratitude has been marked: America withdrew from the 1972 ABM Treaty and has now rammed a vague disarmament agreement - to be signed during the summit and which will allow the US not to destroy surplus missiles and warheads but rather to put them in cold storage - down Putin's throat.
Where once their leaders talked about mutually agreed arms reduction and verified disarmament, now they are more interested in miniaturized nuclear warheads that can be used as bunker busters.
Despite his grave failings as IAEA chief before 1991, Blix once again came to lead UN disarmament inspectors, this time in tandem with another Swede, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus.
Indeed, he needs China's help in persuading recalcitrant North Korea into seriously negotiating nuclear disarmament.
With the Cold War’s end, arms reductions began, but the nuclear powers - America in particular - publicly disavowed total nuclear disarmament for "the indefinite future," in the recent words of Robert Bell, of the US National Security Council.
Nevertheless, all four states agree that Syrian influence in Lebanon must be curbed, and all, in theory, approve of Hezbollah’s disarmament – required by UN Security Council resolution 1559 – even if they differ over how to bring it about.
Inside Lebanon, Hezbollah has interpreted UN demands for its disarmament as a plot by the Bush administration to weaken the party, and as a means of affirming American supremacy in the region.
More recently, Hezbollah agreed to place the issue on the domestic negotiating agenda – perhaps because Iran doesn’t want it to be a source of national dissension – but it is doubtful that genuine disarmament will ensue, at least for now.
Colombia’s government has gone as far as it can, in the face of much criticism from its own supporters, in not insisting on immediate disarmament or surrender, but instead offering a cease-fire and the rebels the possibility of reintegration into civil society under international observation.
Likewise, the Chemical Weapons Convention, steered through the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, is still the most robust arms-control treaty related to weapons of mass destruction ever negotiated.
But, as the US and Russia reduce their nuclear stockpiles, this excuse is becoming less valid, and China’s exclusion from negotiations is becoming an increasingly significant hindrance to disarmament.
Determining the circumstances that might induce such restraint – and the conditions that would be needed to sustain it – is crucial to reinvigorating nuclear disarmament efforts.
Obama’s commitment to substantial nuclear disarmament bodes well for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Renewal Conference in 2010.
Moreover, other powers in the region that have or are believed to have a nuclear arsenal will have no excuse to oppose disarmament.
We saw another turning point on a second issue of existential importance: nuclear disarmament.
At a special summit called by the President Obama, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that opens a new chapter in the UN’s efforts to address nuclear proliferation and disarmament.
All must work together – in common cause for common solutions – to address challenges like climate change, poverty, and nuclear disarmament.
Its key objective is “to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology...and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.”
Nuclear-weapons states keep learning the hard way that strengthening the non-proliferation regime is a tough sell when they drag their feet on disarmament.
After all, the NPT’s 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.”
Even the questionable deal Uribe cut with the right-wing paramilitary AUC groups, pardoning up to 30,000 of their members for often horrendous crimes in exchange for their disarmament, appeared successful.
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