Popularity: 3
Vote:   | Again, as I suggested, we need to look into whether the sensitive parts of the fuel cycle need to be multilateralized, such as enrichment and reprocessing activities. In other words, keep national control from weapons-usable material as far [away] as we can. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Again, I come back to the multilateralization of the fuel cycle. So, you can say "Article IV is applicable, we will give you the technology to use it for health, agriculture, medicine, radiotherapy, cancer treatment, water, you can have it for research reactors, you can have a power reactor. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | As you know, we never have 100 percent certainty. That's why we would like to have in Iran and everywhere else a continuous process of inspections, and we need the authority of the protocol to enable us in a country with an extensive knowledge and program to do a comprehensive job. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | How do you deal with imminent threats of massive abuse of human rights, genocide? You need to have a collective system but also a collective system that is not paralyzed by veto or by [lack of] consensus - a collective system that is dynamic, that even in certain situations has to be preemptive. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I firmly believe that in the long run you cannot just continue to have the privileged few relying on either nuclear weapons or the nuclear weapons umbrella and others are told, "You cannot have nuclear weapons," because again we continue to have these failures. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I think export control is obviously something where we need to continue to tighten the screws. It is becoming more and more difficult; a lot of these items are dual-use, but I think that one possibility is to obviously link arms export controls to the conclusion and implementation of additional protocols. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I think it would be particularly good to see an item that could be used toward a nuclear activity that could only go to a country where the [IAEA] applied a comprehensive and in-depth verification through additional protocols. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I think that is a very important measure in the regime. To remove HEU (highly enriched uranium) or limit very much HEU and plutonium from the fuel cycle, and if it were to be used, again, it would be under multilateral control. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I think the NPT can survive - has survived - without them. But I think, ultimately, that the nonproliferation regime will not survive without them. The NPT is a part of the regime, and if we talk about the regime - global, universal, enduring - then it will not survive without the three. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I think the policy, right now in my view, the wise policy would be to engage these three countries and not just to continue to treat them as an outsider because, in the long run, we need to get everybody on board. And if we haven't succeeded to get them through the NPT, we need to think of other ways to get them on board. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | If you look, I think, in 1992, there was a Security Council meeting at the summit where they had heads of states and government. At that meeting, I think they issued a declaration saying that the proliferation of nuclear weapons - I think weapons of mass destruction - is a threat to international peace and security. What does that mean? |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Other parts, of course, have to be dealt with somewhere else, primarily in the United Nations - developing a better system of collective security or energizing the system of collective security, trying to intervene early in situations of threats of weapons of mass destruction or massive violation of human rights. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | So yes, if we get a comprehensive declaration and we are able to verify that it is accurate and complete, and if we get the protocol and we are able to implement the protocol in all future activities in Iran, then I think this would be a leap forward in terms of the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The system needs to continue to serve their security needs. You cannot expect them to continue to participate as a part of the system if their security is not being served. And the fact that they can withdraw from the treaty... I mean, that's true, but that doesn't mean that's the end of the road. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We definitely need a reliable system of security, but a system that does not rely on nuclear weapons, and possibly more of an inclusive system that does not rely on unilateral or preemptive use of force but rooted primarily in the collective security system which we have under the UN Charter. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | We need to bite the bullet and see how we can move beyond nuclear weapons deterrence, and I think that we have not done that yet. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Well, I think that the first thing, which is probably the easiest, is to make sure that countries that are parties of the NPT (nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) have safeguard agreements and additional protocols enforced. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Well, I think we need... first of all, we need the realization by member states that the system we have right now is inadequate and needs to be improved. Once you have that, you know, sinking in, that feeling that you need to change the system, then I think we can move forward. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Yes, it's encouraging news... [but] I still need to be briefed on Iran's exact commitment. However, this is in line with their commitment to me last week that they are ready to come with a full declaration of all their past nuclear activities and they are ready to conclude a protocol to regulate their future nuclear activities. |