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Next year's nuclear summit to focus on nuclear terrorism and safety
World leaders are expected to discuss "practical and concrete" ways to prevent the threat of nuclear terrorism and ensure the safety of atomic energy at next year's global summit on nuclear security in South Korea, Seoul's foreign minister said Monday.
South Korea "envisages a result at the summit of the leaders of the participating countries to reach an agreement on concrete and practical measures to achieve a world free of nuclear and radiological terrorism," Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said at a meeting in Seoul with some 120 deputy negotiators from 47 nations attending to prepare for the gathering.
Kim said he hopes the Seoul summit "will not only serve to strengthen the norms of nuclear security but also foster greater international confidence in nuclear energy."
The growing concerns over radioactive contamination in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, have been ringing alarm bells over the safety of atomic energy across the world.
Besides nuclear security, next year's summit is also likely to focus on nuclear safety, Kim said, adding the nuclear disaster in Japan "made us give deep thought to the future of nuclear energy.
"I firmly believe that from crisis comes opportunity and that this will be the case of the Fukushima incident," Kim said. "The international community will make greater efforts to find safer and more reliable ways to use nuclear energy."
Kim also promised that South Korea will make every effort to make next year's nuclear summit a "great success."
South Korea was chosen in April last year as the host for the next Nuclear Security Summit in March, which is a symbolic occasion for a country where North Korea's nuclear defiance has been the pressing crisis.
During the closed-door gathering, the deputy negotiators called "sous-sherpas" plan to discuss key goals for next year's summit and what topics should be included in a so-called "Seoul Communique" that will be announced at the end of the March summit, officials at Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.
Other agenda items are the securing of all vulnerable atomic materials worldwide and preventing terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials as well as detecting and intercepting the illegal trade of nuclear goods, officials here said.
The results of this week's meeting will be presented at a meeting of chief negotiators or "sherpas" in October in Helsinki, Finland to further figure out the agenda topics, officials said.
South Korea "envisages a result at the summit of the leaders of the participating countries to reach an agreement on concrete and practical measures to achieve a world free of nuclear and radiological terrorism," Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said at a meeting in Seoul with some 120 deputy negotiators from 47 nations attending to prepare for the gathering.
Kim said he hopes the Seoul summit "will not only serve to strengthen the norms of nuclear security but also foster greater international confidence in nuclear energy."
The growing concerns over radioactive contamination in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, have been ringing alarm bells over the safety of atomic energy across the world.
Besides nuclear security, next year's summit is also likely to focus on nuclear safety, Kim said, adding the nuclear disaster in Japan "made us give deep thought to the future of nuclear energy.
"I firmly believe that from crisis comes opportunity and that this will be the case of the Fukushima incident," Kim said. "The international community will make greater efforts to find safer and more reliable ways to use nuclear energy."
Kim also promised that South Korea will make every effort to make next year's nuclear summit a "great success."
South Korea was chosen in April last year as the host for the next Nuclear Security Summit in March, which is a symbolic occasion for a country where North Korea's nuclear defiance has been the pressing crisis.
During the closed-door gathering, the deputy negotiators called "sous-sherpas" plan to discuss key goals for next year's summit and what topics should be included in a so-called "Seoul Communique" that will be announced at the end of the March summit, officials at Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.
Other agenda items are the securing of all vulnerable atomic materials worldwide and preventing terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials as well as detecting and intercepting the illegal trade of nuclear goods, officials here said.
The results of this week's meeting will be presented at a meeting of chief negotiators or "sherpas" in October in Helsinki, Finland to further figure out the agenda topics, officials said.
