Japan Unveils 11-Point Initiative to Push Global Disarmament

Japan Unveils 11-Point Initiative to Push Global Disarmament
Japan Today
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/japan-unveils-11-point-initiative-to-push-global-disarmament

FM NakasoneJapan unveiled an 11-point initiative Monday to achieve a nuclear-free world, including a call for the imposition of "effective global restrictions" on North Korea's ballistic missile development and a plan to hold an international conference in Japan early next year on global nuclear disarmament.

In a speech titled "Conditions towards Zero—11 Benchmarks for Global Nuclear Disarmament," Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone urged China and other nuclear powers to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons and to ensure transparency regarding their arsenals, which he described as "vital" for advancing global nuclear disarmament.

* Conditions towards Zero – 11 Benchmarks for Global Nuclear Disarmament (PDF)

http://www2.jiia.or.jp/pdf/kouenkai/090427e-nakasone.pdf