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- Opinion by Tariq Rauf
- • December 1, 2019
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VIENNA, Austria — Ensconced near the Danube River in this European city is the headquarters of the world’s single-most important means of ensuring safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear energy. Created in 1957, four years after United States…
- Categories: Disarmament, OPINIONS
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- Enrico Carisch
- • June 10, 2018
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Could the Kim-Trump meeting in Singapore on Tuesday displace the United Nations Security Council’s mandate to regulate the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as the United States succeeded in doing when it withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal?…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Enrico Carisch
- • April 4, 2018
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President Donald Trump’s mid-May deadline for renegotiating the terms of the nuclear arms deal with Iran is rapidly approaching. So far, his words and actions seem to isolate the United States from its European and Asian allies while straining…
- Categories: P5 Monitor, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Kacie Candela
- • August 25, 2017
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Nikki Haley has been appearing on American TV news programs an awful lot lately, so what gives? Some observers point to Haley as a refreshing and stable face amid an unpredictable White House and uncannily quiet secretary of state,…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 28, 2017
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Five months into her stint as United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley faced two days of often-sharp questioning on June 27 and 28 by influential panels of the United States Congress. They demanded justification for the…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 4, 2017
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With White House proposals to slash United States assessments and donations to international organizations now in play in the writing of a federal budget for 2018 — as an April 28 deadline approaches — the extent of potential losses…
- Categories: Take a Look, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 5, 2016
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When the last of President Barack Obama’s four summit meetings on keeping weapons-grade material out of the hands of terrorists and criminals ended on April 1, there were no headline advances to report, as experts were predicting. Instead, Obama…
- Categories: Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 26, 2015
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With vast regions of the Middle East in flames, many thousands of people dying in executions born of religious intolerance or left to drown at sea by morally repugnant criminal traffickers, it could seem like an odd time to…
- Categories: Disarmament
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- Opinion by Dave Steward
- • May 12, 2014
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Sadly, South Africa remains the only state that has ever voluntarily dismantled its entire nuclear weapons ability. Others like Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have foregone the possibility of acquiring them — but South Africa has been the only country…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 4, 2013
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After a week of political jockeying involving Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mahmud Mansour, the country’s military and a radical Islamist party that refused to accept Mohamed ElBaradei as prime minister, the former head of the United Nations International Atomic…
- Categories: Africa, Middle East
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- Irwin Arieff
- • January 1, 2013
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Iran’s nuclear crisis has been dragging on for a decade, so it sure would be great if someone in the know finally laid out the definitive plan for resolving the dispute and ending Tehran’s international isolation. In “The Iranian…
- Categories: BOOKS, Disarmament, Middle East
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- Opinion by Ramesh Thakur
- • July 6, 2012
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As international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and the boundaries between peaceful uses and weaponization intensify, the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, and its chief, Yukiya Amano, also grow more…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 25, 2012
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United Nations international atomic inspectors confirmed that Iran is moving apace on producing nuclear fuel at an underground site, but that is not what Kwaku Aning, an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency, wanted to talk about on…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development
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