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Iran convened a conference titled "International Disarmament and Non-proliferation: World Security without Weapons of Mass Destruction" on 17 and 18 April 2010 in Tehran. The theme of the conference was ''Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One''.〔(Tehran nuclear disarmament conference will be a success:Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman )〕 The conference resulted in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for action toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons. ==Background== The New START treaty was signed on April 8, 2010, in Prague by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. This treaty resumed the START process of reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the two nations, for the first time requiring verifiability between them. The conference was held just days after a Nuclear Security Summit was held in Washington, D.C. on April 12–14 over the security of "vulnerable nuclear material."〔(Iran to host conference on nuclear disarmament )〕 This conference was viewed as a counterpoint to the Washington summit.〔 (Aljazeera.net )〕 Its intention was to prove Iran's national and political will for the eradication of nuclear weapons, where Iran said the chemical weapons convention determined such weapons should be destroyed but the United States had chosen to ignore it.〔(CMS.MFA.gov.ir )〕 In May 2010, the review conference for the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was held at United Nations headquarters in New York City.〔(Disarmament: NGOs Praise U.S. Leadership on Nukes )〕 In May 2009, the EastWest Institute released a joint U.S.-Russian ''Threat Assessment on Iran's Nuclear and Missile Potential''. The report said there was no specific evidence that Iran was seeking the ability to attack Europe and that "it is indeed difficult to imagine the circumstances in which Iran would do so." It added that if Iran did pursue this capability, it would need six to eight years to develop a missile capable of carrying a 1,000 kilogram warhead 2,000 kilometers; and that Iran ending "IAEA containment and surveillance of the nuclear material and all installed cascades at the Fuel Enrichment Plan" might serve as an early warning of Iranian intentions. The report concluded that there was "no IRBM/ICBM threat from Iran and that such a threat, even if it were to emerge, is not imminent."〔(East-West Institute: Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Potential )〕 Incoming Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano said he had not seen any evidence in IAEA official documents that Iran was seeking the ability to develop nuclear weapons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tehran International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, 2010」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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