In the fall of 2011, everything seemed to be in place to convene a 2012 conference on establishing a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. The meeting was to be sponsored by the United Nations as well as ...
Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon meets with Ambassador Jaako Laajava, facilitator for the 2012 Conference on the Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction= 11 October ...
The Secretary-General met today with Mr. Jaakko Laajava, the facilitator on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction. They reaffirmed ...
Officials from Israel and Finland last week held secret talks on Jerusalem's participation in a conference to ban nuclear arms in the Middle East. According to reports in Israel's Hebrew-language ...
International efforts to take forward the long-standing goal of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East are facing further setbacks, 38 years after this security objective was put on the ...
In a dramatic act that signalled its frustration with the “unilateral postponement” of an agreed 2012 Conference on the Middle East, Ambassador Hisham Badr announced his delegation’s walk-out “to ...
As tensions between Iran and the West continue to escalate, an Iranian official claimed that Tehran was the first regional power to call for a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. Iranian ...