WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- More than 100 prominent military, political, faith, and business leaders met in Paris December 8-9 for the inaugural conference of Global Zero -- a new international initiative committed to achieving a binding verifiable agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons by combining high-level diplomacy and policy work with global public campaigning.
A delegation of these Global Zero leaders will hold a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to discuss the new campaign.
At the press conference, Global Zero leaders will announce the outcomes of the conference, including: next steps in developing the step-by-step plan for eliminating nuclear weapons; new poll results of 21 countries about the idea of an international agreement for getting to zero nuclear weapons; and the unveiling of the new, multi-lingual Global Zero website -- www.globalzero.org -- where people can get involved and show their support by signing the Global Zero declaration.
WHO:
-- K. Shankar Bajpai, the former Secretary of the Ministry of External
Affairs of India
-- Richard Burt, the former U.S. Chief Negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the former Soviet Union and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
-- Shaharyar Khan, the former Foreign Minister of Pakistan
-- Lt. Gen. (ret) Talat Masood of Pakistan
-- Malcolm Rifkind, the former Defense and Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom
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