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    Looking forward to the possibility of a long-term deal to curtail Iran's enrichment of nuclear material, Evans said, "It's not going to involve the complete abandonment of the enrichment capabilities with fissile material, but I think it can involve very serious disciplines on the misuse of that material. And I think there's every chance that we're seeing the beginnings of a quite serious process of accommodation by Iran, notwithstanding all the internal difficulties." He also expressed optimism about the prospects for a global deal to sharply reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, perhaps even to zero. Full Article at CNN
    It's not going to involve the complete abandonment of the enrichment capabilities with fissile material, but I think it can involve very serious disciplines on the misuse of that material. And I think there's every chance that we're seeing the beginnings of a quite serious process of accommodation by Iran, notwithstanding all the internal difficulties.
    – Gareth Evans SOURCE: CNN 3 weeks ago
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Israel, Iran 'held nuclear meeting'
  1. We can sure as heck get very close to zero within a finite timeframe, I think, in the next 15 years or so. We can get down to a world which has roughly about 10 percent of the stockpile of nuclear weapons that exists at the moment
    SOURCE: CNN 3 weeks ago
  2. there were sufficient exchanges across the room in the presence of 20 or 30 others to give me some encouragement that we might just be beginning to find the possibility of a dialogue that will get us towards where we want to go.
    SOURCE: CNN 3 weeks ago
  3. To get to a world in which there are very low numbers, where nobody is relying seriously on nuclear weapons as any kind of security vehicle for their either defensive or offensive aspirations, and a world in which these things, such as they are, are actually locked away and not on trigger alert and so o...
    SOURCE: CNN 3 weeks ago
  4. What we're looking at is exploring, for example, the preconditions for a 'weapons of mass destruction-free zone' in the Middle East.
    SOURCE: CNN 3 weeks ago
  5. getting each side to articulate what its concerns are, what it will want as a precondition, is important, and I think we made a small step in that direction.
    SOURCE: CNN 3 weeks ago

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