Iran calls for a timetable for global nuclear disarmament
Iran accused the five nuclear powers Wednesday of failing to take concrete action to eliminate their stockpiles and called for negotiations on a convention to achieve nuclear disarmament by a target date.
Iran's deputy UN ambassador Gholam Hossein Dehghani told the UN Disarmament Commission that "a comprehensive, binding, irreversible, verifiable" treaty is the most effective and practical way to eliminate nuclear weapons. He accused the nuclear powers -- the US, Russia, China, Britain and France -- of promising nuclear disarmament but making no significant progress.
