This year’s United Nations General Assembly opened on September 17 and will close on October 1.
Item 99 on the UNGA Agenda: General and complete disarmament
(v) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (resolution 67/54);
On September 12, 2013, Haaretz reported:
With Moscow and Washington now discussing a diplomatic deal that would rid Syria of its chemical weapons, officials in Jerusalem are preparing for the possibility that Israel will be asked to submit to supervision of the chemical weapons that foreign reports say it possesses. Israel signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, but never ratified it. Consequently, it hasn’t agreed to submit itself to international inspections or to refrain from steps that would violate the convention.
On September 14, 2013, the United Nations announced:
It has received all documents necessary for Syria to join the Chemical Weapons Convention starting on Oct. 14, 2013.
Also on UNGA Agenda:
Item 99: General and complete disarmament
(u) Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices (resolution 67/53).
On September 18, 2013, a high-level statement came out of Iran:
It said the country’s new leaders want to compromise in negotiations over its WMD programs. Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, told NBC News that Iran would never “seek weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons” and that he had “full power and complete authority” to make a nuclear deal with the West when he goes to the United Nations next week.
Sources:
- http://www.un.org/en/ga/
- http://www.un.org/en/ga/68/agenda/index.shtml
- http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.546613
- http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4429520,00.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/world/middleeast/irans-leaders-signal-effort-at-new-thaw.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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