WORLD BRIEFING / SWITZERLAND
Times Wire Reports
The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament broke a dozen years of deadlock and opened the way to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty.
Diplomats welcomed the adoption of a “program of work” as a breakthrough for the conference, which has been stalemated since it wrote the nuclear test ban treaty in 1996.
The program refers to nuclear disarmament in general, but it indicates a top candidate for a new treaty is one to ban production of fissile materials such as highly enriched uranium and plutonium.
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