Peace Quest Campaign Briefing: Number Two, June 2005

Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference Ends in Disarray: Diplomatic Disaster Opens Nuclear Trap-Door
In Peace Quest’s inaugural Campaign Briefing (‘Atomic Anniversary, Nuclear Treaty to Form Focus of Year’s Activities’, February 2005), I previewed the slim hopes for progress, and rich potential for deadlock, at a crucial May meeting of the 188-state nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Despite the impassioned exhortations of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, echoed by a large number of angry and frustrated delegates, the conference proved, as Canadian journalist and author Gwynne Dyer noted on May 31, an almighty “mess” achieving “absolutely nothing.”
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