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Finland: Nuclear talks planned

2012-04-01

The United Nations named Finland to host a sensitive conference in 2012 on making the Middle East free of nuclear arms and weapons of mass destruction.

A Finnish government envoy will also lead international efforts to persuade archrivals Iran and Israel to attend the meeting.

Finland’s undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, Jaakko Laajava, faces a “daunting task” of organizing the conference, said Anne Penketh, program director for the British American Security Information Council.

The idea of moving toward a weapons-free Middle East was formally backed at a 2010 meeting on the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States, Russia and Britain were the main sponsors. U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon has also made nuclear disarmament one of his top priorities.

Agence France-Presse

 

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