News Review Special Edition

International Developments, November 15, 2002 - February 1, 2003

Note: an abridged version of this News Review will appear in the next edition of Disarmament Diplomacy (No. 69, February/March 2003). News Review is compiled by Dr. Sean Howard on the basis of newswire reports and other specified electronic sources. The Review does not seek to put forward or reflect the views or claims of Disarmament Diplomacy or the University of British Columbia.

Link to Disarmament Diplomacy No. 69.

Contents

• Iraq Inspections Fail to Resolve Crisis as Hourglass Runs Towards War
• North Korea Turns Its Back on NPT in Spiralling Diplomatic Confrontation
• US Unveils National Strategy to Combat WMD
• US Outlines Plans for Missile Defence, Nuclear Weapons Programmes
• UK Moves to Support US Missile Defence Programme
• Key Senate Committee Endorses Moscow Treaty
• US Energy Department Requests Record Non-Proliferation Funding
• UN Urges Redoubled Efforts to Combat WMD Terrorism as Bush Releases CTR Funding
• US Alleges Clandestine Nuclear Activity in Iran
• Chilling Nuclear Rhetoric, Ongoing Nuclearisation in South Asia
• Comments by Brazilian Minister Keep Nuclear Controversy Bubbling
• Tenth Anniversary of CWC
• Russia Begins CW Stockpile Destruction
• President Bush Announces Project Bioshield
• Fifth Anniversary of Mine Ban Treaty
• CCW Meeting Embraces Talks on Explosive Remnants of War
• Wassenaar Arrangement Agrees New Measures on Terrorism, Small Arms

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