Nuclear Security Summit Comes to Its Close with Commitments, Pledges (click here)
April 13, 2010 4:10 PM
The Nuclear Security Summit is coming to a close, with representatives from all 47 nations present signing off on a communiqué pledging to – within four years -- secure and dispose of all vulnerable fissile materials such as highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
A communiqué is a political document that isn’t legally binding, but this one includes commitments to join legally binding treaties and initiatives, such as the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and the G-8’s Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
“Some countries are signing that today, some have to go back home and work in through their systems,” a national security official told ABC News....
