About 50 participants – representatives of Gulf states and experts from the region, and U.S. and European experts and officials, exchanged views on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf during a conference on March 21st and 22nd. The workshop highlighted a number of themes, including: justice and rights, disarmament, universality and the health of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Iran.
Commenting on the Nuclear Security Summit II, Paul Ingram told Uranium Investing News: “Obama’s creation of an approach that pulls states into common objectives on this agenda is no small feat given the weeks of diplomatic wrangling and finger pointing that characterizes the diplomacy around the more established nuclear non-proliferation treaty process. However, such progress was incremental, and fell way short of what would be needed to meaningfully tackle threats to nuclear security.”
The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul from March 26-27, welcomed 50 countries in reaffirming their commitment to strengthening security on nuclear materials to prevent loss, misuse and theft in order to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism.
The latest report to come from BASIC's Trident Commission by Keith Hartley was written about in Worldwide Nicosia Business Review. The article stresses how the Commission's final report will have an effect on the debate in the UK and the final decision in 2016.
Following BASIC's Conference on Non-Proliferation in the Gulf, Anne Penketh authored the following op-ed for The National on Gulf Cooperation Council participation in non-proliferation efforts.
Michael Settle of Herald Scotland writes about the second BASIC Trident Commission report written by Professor Keith Hartley, and the impact it will have on the country's economy, particularly in Scotland.
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.