Towards a successful NPT Review Conference 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear comrades, it's a pleasure and an honour for me to open the second session of the SI Committee on Disarmament here today in New York. Before I give the word to Marc Saxer I want to thank him and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation for their excellent work. After years in the doldrums, there is once more wind in the sails of nuclear arms control. Important aims and proposals of the arms control community, which in recent decades have been worked out by nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, and commissions, alike are once again an integral part of world politics. During the eight years of the George W. Bush administration the arms control and disarmament process, which was launched after the Cold War, was systematically neutered and reversed. (...)
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New York, 17.11.2009