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International Response: Nuclear Suppliers Group Ends Plenary Meeting The Nuclear Suppliers Group called last week for discussions with nonmember countries that have nuclear programs and might be nuclear suppliers. The 40-nation group, which uses export controls to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, held its 2002 plenary meeting in Prague May 16-17. At the meeting, members welcomed Kazakhstan as the newest participating country and called for discussions with Israel, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Mexico and Pakistan. The group should work with those countries to strengthen nuclear nonproliferation efforts and apply export controls, members said, according to a press release. The members also called on countries that have not yet agreed to more comprehensive nuclear safeguards with International Atomic Energy Agency to do so. They agreed to continue developing the group’s contribution to preventing nuclear terrorism and to find new ways to increase information-sharing capabilities among members. The group plans to meet again next May in South Korea (NSG press release, May 21). Russia and other Nuclear Suppliers Group countries plan to begin dialogue with Israel to strengthen international nonproliferation cooperation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said (Interfax news agency/BBC Monitoring, May 21).
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