UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ISSUES TO BE HELD IN HIROSHIMA, 17-20 JULY
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UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ISSUES TO BE HELD IN HIROSHIMA, 17-20 JULY
19960710 NEW YORK, 10 July (Centre for Disarmament Affairs) -- A United Nations conference on disarmament issues, entitled "Common Efforts towards a Safer and Nuclear-Weapon-Free World", will be held in Hiroshima, from 17 to 20 July.Hosted by the Prefecture and the City of Hiroshima, the conference is being convened by the United Nations Centre for Disarmament Affairs through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific. Its cost is being financed through voluntary contributions by the Government of Japan and the Prefecture and City of Hiroshima.
The conference aims at providing an informal setting for frank and open discussion of critical issues in the field of arms control, disarmament and confidence-building measures. It seeks to addressing differences in approach and, possibly identify common grounds for further progress in the formal deliberating and negotiation forums on disarmament.
With this in mind, the conference will address such issues as a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty, nuclear weapons and deterrence in the post-cold-war era, nuclear safety, and the prospect for a nuclear-weapon-free world. In the field of conventional disarmament, such emerging issues as the proliferation of small weapons, prohibition of land mines, the relationship between the level of conflicts and the transfer of conventional weapons will also be examined. In addition, the conference will also address specific security and disarmament issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
Some 80 participants from governments, academic and research institutes, non-governmental organizations, elected representatives and the media, mainly from within the Asia-Pacific region, have been invited to attend in their personal capacities.
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