If a non-nuclear nation is
bullied by a nuclear weapon state, global help
will be rushed to it, was
the assurance of the UN
Security Council which -
adopted a resolution pledging help for signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, at a meeting, on April 12. Non-aligned nations, claimed that the promise
fell short of providing meaningful and
abholute security to non-nuclear pacifists.
The 3-week long meeting at New York to
finalise the Draft Action Plan for the 4th
World Conference on Women, scheduled to
be held in September 1995 at Beijing, is
over. But women's groups accuse industrialised countries of being uncooperative.
The US, they stress,,is out to scuttle a proposal for replenishin ,g the UN budget devoted to women's upliftment.
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