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G-8 Officials Meet to Follow Up on Nonproliferation Issues Following Summit
Officials from the Group of Eight global economic powers met Friday in Geneva to continue nonproliferation discussions held earlier at this year’s G-8 summit in the United States (see GSN, June 10). During the meeting, members of the of the G-8 Senior Group, which was created during the preparation for this year’s summit, discussed several U.S. nuclear nonproliferation proposals, such as efforts to restrict the transfer of nuclear technology and efforts to restrict uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing activities, according to U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton. The meeting also involved discussions on the expansion of the G-8 Global Partnership, which seeks to provide funding to support nonproliferation activities in the former Soviet Union. During the meeting, G-8 officials heard presentations by nine former Soviet states seeking to become formal Global Partnership recipient countries, Bolton said, adding that as many as four could be included in the G-8 effort by the end of the year. Bolton also said that Friday’s meeting involved discussions on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear issues, which were a topic at this year’s G-8 summit (see related GSN story, today). “The objective that the United States has been pursuing has been to insure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapons capability, and that is an objective shared by all of the G-8 countries as reflected in the G-8 leaders’ statement issued at Sea Island. So there is no disagreement on our broad objective, no disagreement,” he said (U.S. State Department release, Sept. 13).
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