Disarmament Diplomacy

Issue No. 86
Autumn 2007

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Contents

• Intelligence on Nuclear Weapons
  Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson

• New Impetus, Old Excuses - Report on the Conference on Disarmament in 2007, by Michael Hamel-Green

• Engaging India, Israel and Pakistan in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, by Jenny Nielsen

• Rethinking Security Interests for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East, by Rebecca Johnson

• Building Blocks for a WMD Disarmament Regime in the Middle East, by Merav Datan
  

• In the News
  • Iran masters Uranium Enrichment as US Intelligence Report Says Nuclear Weapons Programme Halted in 2003, including:
    • US National Intelligence Estimate
    • IAEA Director-General's Report to the Board of Governors
    • Chronology of Events
      
      
  • North Korea: Good Progress, but Obstacles Remain, including:
    • Six Party Talks (October 3 Agreement): Second-Phase Actions for the Implementation of the September 2005 Joint Statement
      
      
  • UK Foreign Policy emphasizes Disarmament while MoD presses ahead with Renewing Trident, including:
    • Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Margaret Beckett, Speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Non-Proliferation Conference, Washington DC, June 25, 2007
    • New Diplomacy: Challenges for Foreign Policy, speech by Foreign Secretary David Miliband
    • Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet
    • Europe 2030: Model Power not Superpower, Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, Foreign Secretary, College of Europe Speech, Bruges
    • Ministry of Defence Accounts (Trident excerpts)
    • Ballistic Missile Defence, Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne MP
      
      
  • Scotland holds Summit on Trident and seeks NPT Observer Status, including:
    • Scottish Government Summit on Trident, October 22, 2007
    • Letter from Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond to States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, October 15, 2007

Executive Director and Editor: Rebecca Johnson
Deputy Director and Website Manager: Nicola Butler
Assistant Editor: Henrietta Wilson
European and NATO Analyst: Martin Butcher
Cover design: Calverts Press
Cover photo, © REJ 2006. World Trade Centre Cairo, November 2006.

In remembrance of Air Marshal Professor the Lord (Tim) Garden, Convenor of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation, whose intelligence, expertise and supportive engagement will be greatly missed.

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