By KUNA,
Brussels : Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov, US President-elect Barack Obama’s adviser on nuclear issues Joseph Cirincione, and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will be among participants in a conference on nuclear non-proliferation at the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels next week.
The EP’s Socialist Group is organizing the conference in a bid to push nuclear non-proliferation back on to the global agenda before Obama takes office.
“The Socialist Group is bringing together an impressive number of world experts to discuss themes such as peaceful nuclear programmes and review of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 2010,” said the leader of the Group, Martin Schulz.
“We have an important opportunity now, before the Obama administration takes office, to give new impetus to the movement for a world without nuclear weapons.
“Brussels and Washington need to work together on this issue in an open way, ” he said.
Topics for discussions in the one-day conference include strengthening the non-proliferation regime, reducing the risk that new states acquire military nuclear technology, countering the threat of nuclear terrorism, and detailed steps towards disarmament.
The Socialist Group with 217 members is the second largest political group in the 785-member EP.