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Article: Non-proliferation integral to development, IAEA told. (UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali addresses General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, week of September 27 to October 1, 1993) (includes related article on effort to investigate North Korea's nuclear weapons activities)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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Non-proliferation and disarmament are "integral to development and progress, and central to international peace", Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said in a message to the thirty-seventh session (27 September-1 October, Vienna) of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
With the end of the cold war, a "new level of cooperation" was now possible, he noted. But "new threats and new challenges" had also arisen, as international concern had "turned anxiously" towards ensuring the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
At a time when substantial disarmament was finally beginning to occur, there could be "no ...