BASIC Executive Director, Paul Ingram, was featured with Dr. Mustafa Alani and Dr. Jim Walsh in The Peninsula's coverage of BASIC's Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf in Doha.
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Nuclear weapons conference could bring Iran and Israel together
Diplomatic Editor of The Guardian, Julian Borger, wrote the following article on the planned 2012 Conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East and what it could bring to the region. Mr. Borger quotes Paul Ingram, who said: “When you start a process like this, with clear objectives, it is amazing how it evolves. The process itself builds confidence and improves the atmosphere. Also, ordinary Israelis now recognise that a zone free of nuclear weapons is preferable to a region with two or more weapons states.”
Nuclear chief Blix allays any fear of disasters
An article in The National cites remarks from Hans Blix and Bahraini representative Abdullah Abdul Latif Abdullah regarding the different regional impacts of nuclear safety and Iran's Bushehr reactor. The remarks were made during BASIC's conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf.
Scrapping Trident nuclear missiles ‘would save £83.5bn’
Professor Keith Hartley's economic analysis for the BASIC Trident Commission is covered by Richard Norton-Taylor in The Guardian.
UAE ‘has learnt from Fukushima’
Reporter Awad Mustafa covered Ambassador Hamad Ali Al Kaabi's (United Arab Emirates's permanent representative to the IAEA) presentation to the BASIC conference on “Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf”, held in Qatar on March 21-22, 2012. The article focuses on the U.A.E.'s role in the region and nuclear safety.
New approach sought to reduce regional tensions
Reporter Peter Townson for the Gulf Times covered the BASIC conference on “Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf.” The story includes highlights from the keynote speech by Hans Blix and quotes BASIC Executive Director, Paul Ingram, who said of the event, “We want to hear the views of the analysts and officials from the region to hear a different perspective than the drumbeat of war.”
Speakers at Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Conference Highly Praise Qatar for Well Organization
The Qatar News Agency covered BASIC's Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf and commented on Qatar's national efforts in promoting non-proliferation.
Forget about the taxes row: if Osborne is serious about fiscal stability, he should wield the axe on Trident
Blake Ewing, editor of Politics in Spires, a blog by Oxford and Cambridge University, highlights some of the facts presented in the Trident Commission’s second report on the defence-industrial aspects of Trident, written by Professor Keith Hartley.