I am tremendously encouraged that there is unanimous support in the Middle East for the creation of a regional weapons of mass destruction-free zone, although differences exist on its timing.
Universal membership in multilateral treaties is key, as are regional nuclear weapon-free zones and a new treaty on fissile materials.
Tokyo's new assertiveness on these kinds of issues is causing ripples with others in the region too, and with North Korea edging ever-closer to a deliverable nuclear weapons, regional co-operation - or lack of it - could carry real consequences.
The event is billed to cover "the terrorist threat, regional instability and weapons proliferation, cybersecurity and espionage".
Unless the talks take place at the level of the Secretary of State, and broach the full range of antagonisms between the U.S. and Iran — nuclear weapons, regional security, Lebanon, Afghanistan — they stand little chance of succeeding.
Iran's nuclear programme threatens to break Israel's regional monopoly of weapons of mass destruction, which is the main reason it is under immense pressure to abandon uranium enrichment.
"Among other things it will cover the terrorist threat, regional instability and weapons proliferation, cyber security and espionage.
It says these include terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, regional conflicts around the world and threats to the economic prosperity of the UK.
The vjedogonje fought in regional bands, their weapons being huge boulders or gigantic trees which they uprooted with one hand.
Beijing's massive investment in regional and strategic weapons, combined with increasingly bellicose behavior has frightened its neighbors and promoted Obama's "Asia Pivot".
He might also have gotten results like those obtained by Arab researchers, showing that support for a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East is driven by concern over Israel's nuclear arsenal and that, until Israel foreswears nuclear weapons, regional publics think other countries have the right to pursue them, too.
