The current regional turbulence should be the reference point for renewed attempts to initiate discussion of a regional security architecture for the Middle East
The Middle East WMDFZ Conference: Adjusting the Agenda to Realities on the Ground
The idea to hold a conference on a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (WMDFZ) for the Middle East – mandated by the 2010 NPT Review Conference final document and originally slated to take place by the end of 2012 – has not yet been translated into a concrete proposal, but neither has it receded from the international nonproliferation agenda.
