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Nonproliferation panel gives up nuke cut target to below 1,000 by 2025
HIROSHIMA, Oct. 21 Kyodo -
An international nuclear nonproliferation panel currently meeting in Hiroshima
gave up Monday on making recommendations to reduce the number of nuclear
warheads in the world from more than 20,000 at present to less than 1,000 by
2025, sources close to the panel said.
The sources did not elaborate on the concrete figure to be stated but said the
targeted figure appeared to have been raised from the previous one because of
opposition from some nuclear armed states.
The International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament is
expected to make final adjustments to reduction target figures for each nuclear
power in Tuesday's session.
An earlier draft report aimed to urge a target of reducing the number of
nuclear warheads in the world from more than 20,000 at present to 1,000 or
fewer by 2025 and making every nuclear state commit to a no-first-use doctrine
by that year.
The panel met for a second day Monday in Hiroshima, the first city to suffer
atomic bombing, to discuss its recommendations to world leaders.
The outcome of the conference including the intended nuclear reduction target
figure will be made public Tuesday after the conclusion of the three-day
conference.
Previously, the panel's target for adoption of the no-first-use doctrine, which
refers to a pledge by a nuclear power not to use nuclear weapons unless it or
its allies come under nuclear attack, was 2010.
The sources also said the target year for adoption of the doctrine appeared to
have been agreed on by the panel members.
Former Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, co-chair of the panel, said
after Monday's session, ''We had heated discussions over such topics as nuclear
doctrines since the morning.''
The commission envisions releasing its final report early next year to offer a
roadmap for the ultimate goal of a world free of nuclear weapons as proposed by
U.S. President Barack Obama in April.
In its short-term action agenda in the draft targeting 2012, the commission is
set to call for bringing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force, to
conclude negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and to reach an
agreement on equitably sharing the cost burden of disarmament and
nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
The CTBT bans all nuclear tests and the FMCT, if concluded, would prohibit the
production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive
devices.
==Kyodo
An international nuclear nonproliferation panel currently meeting in Hiroshima
gave up Monday on making recommendations to reduce the number of nuclear
warheads in the world from more than 20,000 at present to less than 1,000 by
2025, sources close to the panel said.
The sources did not elaborate on the concrete figure to be stated but said the
targeted figure appeared to have been raised from the previous one because of
opposition from some nuclear armed states.
The International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament is
expected to make final adjustments to reduction target figures for each nuclear
power in Tuesday's session.
An earlier draft report aimed to urge a target of reducing the number of
nuclear warheads in the world from more than 20,000 at present to 1,000 or
fewer by 2025 and making every nuclear state commit to a no-first-use doctrine
by that year.
The panel met for a second day Monday in Hiroshima, the first city to suffer
atomic bombing, to discuss its recommendations to world leaders.
The outcome of the conference including the intended nuclear reduction target
figure will be made public Tuesday after the conclusion of the three-day
conference.
Previously, the panel's target for adoption of the no-first-use doctrine, which
refers to a pledge by a nuclear power not to use nuclear weapons unless it or
its allies come under nuclear attack, was 2010.
The sources also said the target year for adoption of the doctrine appeared to
have been agreed on by the panel members.
Former Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, co-chair of the panel, said
after Monday's session, ''We had heated discussions over such topics as nuclear
doctrines since the morning.''
The commission envisions releasing its final report early next year to offer a
roadmap for the ultimate goal of a world free of nuclear weapons as proposed by
U.S. President Barack Obama in April.
In its short-term action agenda in the draft targeting 2012, the commission is
set to call for bringing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force, to
conclude negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and to reach an
agreement on equitably sharing the cost burden of disarmament and
nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
The CTBT bans all nuclear tests and the FMCT, if concluded, would prohibit the
production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive
devices.
==Kyodo
