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A Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in the Arctic

by Adele Buckley, Romeo Dallaire, Erika Simpson, Mike Wallace

Embassy, OP-ED, (Ottawa, Canada), September 15, 2010.

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The key to a peaceful future in the Arctic is innovative co-operation. One important step Canada could take right now would be to initiate and lead international discussions on a nuclear-weapon-free zone treaty in the Arctic, involving the circumpolar nations Canada, the United States, Denmark (Greenland), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
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