
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 13 2015 (IPS) – As she prepared to leave office after more than three years, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane painted a dismal picture of a conflicted world: it is “not the best of times for disarmament.”
The warning comes against the backdrop of a new Cold War on the nuclear horizon and spreading military conflicts in the politically–volatile Middle East, including in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. Continue reading U.N. Warns of Growing Divide Between Nuclear Haves and Have-Nots