| Sweden and Slovakia joins GICNT |
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| World Affairs Talk | |
| Wednesday, 06 June 2007 | |
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In July 2006, the Global Initiative was declared by the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush, during the summit of the Group of Eight near St. Petersburg. Since this event, the founders of the Initiative (G8 member states, as well as Australia, Turkey, China, Kazakhstan, and Morocco) met twice in Morocco and Turkey. The central objective of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism is to establish a growing network of partner nations that are committed to taking effective measures to build a layered defense-in-depth that can continuously adapt to the changing nature of the threat. While many individual programs and efforts have approached one element or aspect of the nuclear terrorism threat, the Global Initiative provides a capacity building framework for establishing new partnerships with those nations that wish to take similar action. A long line of list has already been filled with Ukraine, Greece, Palau, Israel, Macedonia, Cambodia, Armenia, Romania, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Spain, Montenegro, Cabo Verde, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Turkmenistan and Madagascar in the GICNT club. These partner nations pledged to take a number of actions to fight nuclear terrorism by committing to improve accounting and security of radioactive and nuclear materials, enhance security at civilian nuclear facilities, and to improve detection of nuclear and radioactive materials to prevent illicit trafficking. These nations also agreed to wok together to improve capabilities to search and seize unlawfully held nuclear or radioactive substances, leverage response, mitigation, and investigation capabilities in case of terrorist attack, and to develop technical means to identify nuclear or radioactive materials that could be involved in a terrorist incident. Big task! It will be tough for the nations to accomplish the goals as they have set up a mighty target. Share & Bookmark             |
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