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Disarmament requires trust.
I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
I will continue to forcefully support nonproliferation activities around the world.
There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.
Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.
The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.
The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
My mum was always extremely political. I have fond memories of making signs as a child for the nuclear disarmament protests at Greenham Common, or helping her bake cakes for them.
We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child.
In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.
The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
Poverty must be eradicated, the resources of our planet used sustainably, human rights respected, equality between men and women strengthened, HIV/AIDS and other diseases prevented, terrorism stopped, and disarmament and non-proliferation secured.
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.