The critical common elements of these efforts include a high-level political commitment to disarm, national initiatives to dismantle weapons programs, and full cooperation and transparency.
He must now follow through on his recent promise to bring his party back into a home-rule government if the I.R.A. made a firm commitment to disarm, without waiting for actual disarmament to begin.
"Building newer, potentially more advanced warheads will breach our commitment to disarm under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and will send out a destabilising and hypocritical message to other states both with and currently without such weapons," said Hudson.
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In particular, he should not retreat from his recently stated view that he would be willing to bring his party back into a Northern Ireland government once the I.R.A. made a firm commitment to disarm, without waiting for the actual handover of weapons to begin.
Instead of a commitment to disarm, Iraq has a high-level political commitment to maintain and conceal its weapons, led by Saddam Hussein and his son Qusay, who controls the Special Security Organization, which runs Iraq's concealment activities.
They certainly won't begin with a North Korean commitment to disarm.
In Washington, on Tuesday, the White House played down the significance of the concert, while criticizing the North for failing to meet its commitments to disarm.
If Mr. Saadi was discussing a current program -- and that was not entirely clear -- Mr. Bush may have all that he needs to prove that Iraq is in "material breach" of its 11-year-old commitments to disarm.
The diplomats produced an eight-paragraph plan to "de-escalate" the Ukraine crisis, but its purported commitments to disarm "all illegal armed groups" and to restore control of government facilities to their "rightful owners" have proved vulnerable to gross misinterpretation.
