EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT BACK GLOBAL NON-PROLIFERATION INITIATIVE
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HEADS of government of the European Union (EU) have backed a USA-Russia global nuclear non-proliferation initiative, making detailed pledges.
These came in a communiqué issued following the June 19-20 EU summit in Brussels. It said the EU and its member states agreed Moscow and Washington's Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism "corresponds with [EU] strategy..."
As a result, EU member governments made promises to tighten up nuclear material security including:
*Improving accounting, control and physical protection systems ...
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