Nuclear talks get first breakthrough in 10 years

[bemildred]

Source: Reuters

UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (Reuters) - Delegates meeting on the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty struck their first agreement on the anti-nuclear arms pact in a decade on Wednesday, which diplomats said was largely due to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Three days into a two-week meeting on the landmark arms control agreement, delegates from its 189 signatories agreed on an agenda for a major conference next year, where member states hope to adopt an action plan to overhaul the treaty.

"Amazing," Ambassador John Duncan, head of the British delegation, wrote on a website he updates regularly. "We just agreed the agenda for the 2010 review conference. It may seem boring but we haven't done so for a decade."

Other diplomats described the agreement as modest but significant, because member states have been unable even to agree on what they should talk about for 10 years. They said Obama's new tone was probably the decisive factor.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN06281930

[Spazito]

1. Excellent!

Tone IS important!

Thanks for posting this, it is much appreciated.

Recommended.

[Botany]

2. I loves me some Obama

.... he said he was going to do this in Prague.

[FightingIrish]

3. Damn proud to be rec 5

[SpartanDem]

4. Major props to the President for this