U.N. disarmament talks flop over nuke-free zone plan for Middle East

U.N. disarmament talks flop over nuke-free zone plan for Middle East

Taous Feroukhi, president of a U.N. review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, speaks in the closing session of the meeting in New York on May 22, 2015. The conference ended without adopting a consensus document, with negotiators failing to narrow their differences over a proposal to make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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