Friday, November 3, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Momentum builds for coalition's cause
NATO countries stress need for international nuclear disarmament
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — A coalition of countries pressing for total nuclear disarmament has won votes from the United States and NATO countries for a resolution seeking to cut nuclear arsenals, a top U.N. official said yesterday.
The resolution of the New Agenda Coalition was adopted with 146 votes in favor at Wednesday's close of the annual session of the U.N. disarmament committee. Last year, it only received 90 "yes" votes.
Underssecretary-General for Disarmament, Jayantha Dhanapala, attributed the significant increase in this year's vote to the outcome of a U.N. conference in May reviewing progress on implementing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
That conference ended with a pledge by the five main nuclear powers — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — to make an unequivocal undertaking to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.
Russia and France were among the eight countries that abstained from the vote, which now goes to the full General Assembly.
India and Pakistan, which conducted rival nuclear tests in 1988, and Israel, which is believed to have nuclear weapons capability, voted against the resolution. None joined the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The resolution of the New Agenda group, which includes South Africa, Brazil, Ireland, Egypt, New Zealand, Mexico and Sweden, was one of 49 adopted by the committee in its deliberations.
One resolution sponsored by Japan and Australia took the agreements reached at the May conference further by setting a date 2005 — for the conclusion of negotiations for a treaty banning the production of fissile material, the key building block of nuclear weapons.
The United States, Israel and Micronesia voted against a resolution cosponsored by Russia, China and Belarus calling for the United States to refrain from deploying a national missile defense system.
the resolution welcomed President Clinton's decision to put off deployment, which would require changes to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, considered the cornerstone of arms control agreements.
Fijian soldiers retake barracks
The Associated Press
SUVA, Fiji — Elite soldiers who apparently feared being drummed out of the army because a May coup seized Fiji's main military barracks yesterday and took hostages but were flushed out by regular army troops in gun battles.
Eight people were killed, including five rebellious soldiers, and another 14 soldiers and eight civilians were injured, said a military representative, Maj. Howard Politini.
The mutiny began when 40 soldiers from the army's Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit seized the officers' mess at the barracks, took five officers hostage and demanded negotiations with top officers.
Troops loyal to interim Prime Minister Laisena Qarase stormed into the barracks in an all-out attack, capturing an unspecified number of rebellious soldiers and freeing the five hostages, Politini told Fili Radio.
The motives of the rebellious soldiers remained unclear, but speculation was that at least eight of them feared they would be kicked out of the army for their role in a May 19 coup in this Pacific island nation.
The coup, which toppled the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, was masterminded by George Speight, who said he wanted to rein in the large ethnic Indian minority.
ruji, a nation of 320 islands about 2,250 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia, is ruled by a military-installed civilian government that has pledged to hold elections within two years but which also says it will reserve the top political jobs for indigenous Fijians.
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