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Washington Scheduled to Host PSI Meeting Next Week
Military and law enforcement experts from countries involved in the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led effort to interdict WMD-related cargo shipments, are scheduled to meet next week in Washington (see GSN, Oct. 16). The Dec.16-17 meeting will involve experts from the 11 original PSI members — Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Experts from Canada, Denmark, Norway and Singapore also expected to attend. The meeting is set to discuss ways that any gaps in existing legal authority for the initiative can be filled, either through national legislation or international action, as well as information-sharing measures, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said earlier this week. While the United States is willing to “pursue diplomatic solutions” whenever possible to address proliferation concerns, Washington and its allies are also willing to engage in more “robust” tactics, such as interdiction, if necessary, Bolton said. “If rogue states are not willing to follow the logic of nonproliferation norms, they must be prepared to face the logic of adverse consequences. It is why we repeatedly caution that no option is off the table,” he said (U.S. State Department release, Dec. 2).
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