The countries of the European Union have a shared interest to strengthen our joint efforts in promoting disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation.
Concrete steps should include accelerated nuclear and chemical disarmament and control over the remaining stocks of dangerous substances, including chemical and biological agents.
Diplomats are hoping for a strong government that will tackle disarmament, narcotics control, corruption and institutional change, areas in which Mr. Karzai has largely failed to make an impact.
Coffee was outspoken, and passionately advocated liberal causes: he supported disarmament, birth control, and separation of church and state, and opposed prohibition, antisemitism, and Tammany Hall.
A narrower definition of each term, however, reveals key differences between disarmament and arms control.
The British interlocutors underscored that the UK welcomes U.S. leadership on nonproliferation, disarmament and arms control.
"It is of crucial importance to maintain the international disarmament and arms control efforts".
After retiring in 1972, Mr. Epstein was a senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and until 1986, he was a disarmament and arms control consultant to the secretary general.
"In the case of unfavorable development of the situation, Russia reserves the right to discontinue further steps in the field of disarmament and arms control," Mr. Medvedev said in a televised address from his residence just outside Moscow.
"We maintain that the various sides should hold strategic dialogue to seek ways to maintain the global strategic balance without harming the international disarmament and arms control efforts," Ms. Zhang of the Foreign Ministry said.
