RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

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MOSCOW, August 6 (RIA Novosti) - Modern conditions demand a complex approach to the whole range of issues of nuclear nonproliferation.

In this way the Russian Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department commented on Friday on the situation in the sphere of nuclear nonproliferation in connection with the anniversary of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima (August 6 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945), Japanese cities.

"In modern conditions it's important to find a complex approach to the whole range of issues of nuclear nonproliferation. Painstaking political and diplomatic work is necessary," reads the comment.

"Attempts to resolve problems by means of force are seen as dangerous," said the Russian Foreign Ministry.

It was stated that unfavorable tendencies have been appearing lately in the sphere of nuclear nonproliferation.

"This was displayed in the DPRK's statement on withdrawal from the NPT and unwillingness of India, Pakistan and Israel, who are beyond the legal field of the NPT, to join it as non-nuclear states," said the Foreign Ministry.

Besides, the ministry noted such negative factors as attempts of non-state structures, including international terrorists, to get access to the WMDs, the preservation of incentives to acquire and distribute the WMDs as a consequence of continuous regional crises, weakness or lack of national export control measures that many states have.

The ministry said the situation around the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty remains a deadlock.

"This is caused, first of all, by a lack of U.S. interest in this treaty," believes the Russian foreign ministry.

The refusal of the U.S. to participate in the conference to contribute to the CTBT's entering into force, the country's vote against the decision of the UN General Assembly to back the treaty, as well as the decision of American Congress to start research work in the field of creating nuclear charges of supersmall power do not contribute to other states' joining the treaty, reads the comment.

Nevertheless, despite all negative factors, the international community managed to achieve a number of positive results in this sphere, stressed the information department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

An important positive shift was Libya's decision to give up programs to create WMDs and the specific actions to eliminate groundwork in this sphere that followed, reads the comment.

"The signing by Iran of an additional protocol to the agreement on guarantees with the IAEA and giving access for the Agency's inspectors to Iranian facilities that cause concern made it possible to reduce tensions in regard to Tehran. At the same time, there still remains a lot to do in the settlement of the situation around the Iranian nuclear program," believes the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Besides, the comment notes the fact that 2004 is marked by a number of initiatives aimed at closing the gaps in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. In particular, these are the UN Security Council's resolution 1540 on the fight against WMDs black markets and the G8 Plan of Actions in the sphere of nonproliferation.

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