This publication includes the edited transcripts of the panel discussions held in the United Nations by the NGO Committee on Disarmament in 1998 and early 1999 and the presentations made by NGOs on May 11, 1999 at the third Prep Com for the Non-Proliferation Treary Review Conference to be held in the year 2000. We are very much dependent upon your reactions and suggestions to help us plan what …
The author gives us his account from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly predict the coming war. They will eavesdrop on the exchanges between UN inspectors and U.S. officials observing the behind-the-scenes formulation of an approach to foreign policy and diplomacy that would come to characterise the Bus…
The past few years have witnessed a number of remarkable developments in the field of nuclear arms control and non proliferation. The United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia) signed the START I and II agreements, which promised to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two countries by two-thirds, to approximately 3,000 nuclear warheads each by the year 2003. President Bush's announcement on…
This book describes how the people of Kazakstan's reached the decision to rid themselves of nuclear weapons and argues that peace will come to our multipolar world only through nonproliferation and denuclearization. President Nazarbayev sets the record straight on Kazakstan's dauntless decision to lead the way to a secure future for all our children and grandchildren.
The world is now engaged with India already established as a major power, advancing in every sphere of development: political, diplomatic, socio-economic, scientific, technological, and cultural. The distinguished foreign affairs analysts, scholars and eminent diplomats invited by the Foreign Service Institute (Government of India) to write chapters for this book on Indian foreign policy, have …
In this report, the Independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Hands Blix, confronts this global challenge and presents 60 recommendations on what the world community-national governments and civil society-an and should do. Contents: 1. Reviving disarmament 2. Weapons of terror : threats and responses 3. Nuclear weapons 4. Biological and toxin weapons, etc.
Nuclear Pakistan is virtually, Pakistan's Islamic Nuclear Decoction. After the cession of Islamic States and the disintegration of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the destablishing process in the region has started. Pakistan's ambition to fill the void created by Weakening of Iraq and Iran and to emerge as the leader of the conglomeration of Islamic nations is a great threat to peace and s…
Contents: 1. Text of the UN general assembly resolution on principles governing the general regulations and reduction of armaments 41 (I) adopted on 14 December 1946. India supported it 2. Statement made by Vijaya Laxmi Pandit in the UN general assembly, 25 September 1948 (Extracts) 3. Statement made by Vijaya Laxmi Pandit in the UN general assembly, 4 November 1948 4. Text of the UN genera…
Contents: 1. Statement made by M. Dubey in the first committee of the UN on 15 November 1984 on disarmament 2. Statement made by M. Dubey in UN first committee on 27 November 1984 on draft resolutions on disarmament 3. Statement made by Khursheed Alan Khan in the UN general assembly on 26 September 1985 on nuclear disarmament (Extracts) 4. Statement made by G.G. Swell in the first committee…
Contents: 1. Statement made by Sardar Swaran Singh in UN general assembly on 14 December 1964 2. Statement made by Sardar Swaran Singh in Rajya Sabha on 22 December 1964 (Extracts) 3. Statement made by V.C. Trivedi in the disarmament commission on 14 May 1965 on Chinese second nuclear explosion 4. The prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's statement on 15 May 1965 at an Indo-Soviet friendship…