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3 DECEMBER 2009

What is Britain's role in moving towards global nuclear zero?

Left to right: Baroness Williams, Mariot Leslie (Director-General, Defence and Intelligence, FCO) and Professor Malcolm Chalmers (Royal United Services Institute)

Towards Zero - a major one-day conference organised by UNA-UK, RUSI and BASIC - saw leading experts from across the policy and political spectrum debate Britain's role in furthering nuclear non-proliferation and multilateral approaches to disarmament.

Speaking at the conference, Baroness Williams of Crosby, who is Advisor to the UK Prime Minister on Nuclear Proliferation, called for participants to engage with the 'now and here' politics of the issue. She also urged her colleagues in the recently-formed Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation to ensure that their message is heard at the highest levels in Britain.

Former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, another member of the group, was among the 150 participants.

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