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The work of individual and organizations, such as the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament and Parliamentarians for Global Action, are key to keeping nuclear disarmament issues alive among civil society and before legislatures and governments, and building support for a future without nuclear arms.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

Parliamentarians can be very effective in pushing for progress towards a more peaceful world, Disarmament and Arms Control Minister, Marian Hobbs said today.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

The Ottawa Convention stands alone as an unprecedented success in the disarmament arena in recent times.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

New Zealand’s goal remains as it has always been: the complete, verifiable, and irreversible elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

The goal of disarmament is New Zealand's guiding principle, and one we must not lose sight of while we focus on the threat of proliferation, and the insecurity threats that can surround the peaceful use of nuclear power.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Marian Hobbs will be in Sydney on Monday for an Australian Government hosted conference focused on reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

New Zealand is taking further steps to help stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

New Zealand takes up its two-year appointment to the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

Nuclear weapons pose a potential security threat and are not useful in deterring terrorists. Non-proliferation initiatives must work in tandem with effective disarmament measures as part of a mutually reinforcing process

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

Permitting nuclear weapons programmes to continue over long periods of time fosters a permissive environment for the proliferators.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

New Zealand is making a further contribution to the anti nuclear terrorism campaign

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

These weapons pose the greatest threat in history to human security.

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control

The threat posed by weapons of mass destruction will be one of the pressing issues to be debated at a New Zealand-sponsored disarmament conference in New York

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Disarmament and Arms Control