DISARMAMENT: UN'S NEW DEPARTMENT FOR GLOBAL DISARMAMENT

Inter Press Service English News Wire | December 31, 1997| | Copyright

Thalif Deen
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-31-1997
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 30 (IPS) -- In a belated attempt at
pursuing demilitarization with the end of the Cold War, the United
Nations is creating a new department to disarm the world at large.
The establishment of the Department of Disarmament Affairs --
unanimously approved by the 185-member General Assembly last week
-- comes at a time when the world body is saddled with the burden
of monitoring a rash of new conventions on disarmament.
These include U.N. conventions against landmines, chemical
weapons, international terrorism and ...

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