Anne Penketh is quoted by Elizabeth Whitman of Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency in an article on the host goverment and facilitator picked for the 2012 conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.
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Finland will host 2012 meeting to start talks on nuclear free Mideast
Anne Penketh was quoted by the Associated Press in an October 14 2011 article on the UN announcement that Finland will host, and provide a facilitator for, the 2012 conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.
Workshop on WMD-free zone in Middle East
Plans are afoot for a major conference next year on a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East. BASIC held a small workshop in Malta for officials and experts in the region on the key issues involved, and here we publish the facilitator’s key issues from the meeting.
Testing Times for the Test Ban
This Friday, at the United Nations, foreign ministers from 100 countries will adopt a declaration promoting concrete actions to ensure the entry into force of the global treaty banning nuclear tests.
“Concern Grows Over Prospects for Middle East Disarmament Meeting”
BASIC's Program Director Anne Penketh is interviewed by Elizabeth Whitman in this article covering the slow pace of progress toward holding a conference on a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East in 2012.
The EU and the Middle East WMD Free Zone
Tomorrow and on Thursday this week, the European Union has an opportunity to influence the preparations for a conference on a Middle East WMD-free zone.
Israeli and Iranian officials to attend European WMD meeting
Writing about the EU conference on a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East, Julian Borger in his Global Security Blog for The Guardian refers to BASIC’s Washington Program Director Anne Penketh’s article on the subject.
Paul Ingram reports from Tehran
I’m in Tehran for BASIC in the middle of the second annual two day international conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation laid on by IPIS, the Foreign Ministry’s think tank.