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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for further progress on the global disarmament agenda, stressing that eliminating nuclear weapons is the best way to ensure security for all. “Let us be clear: the only guarantee of safety, and the only sure protection against the use of such weapons, is their elimination,” he said in a message to the Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020.

Recalling his own five-point plan for nuclear disarmament, Mr Ban urged parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to pursue negotiations on disarmament, either through a new convention or through a series of mutually reinforcing instruments backed by a credible system of verification.

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31 years after Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers were driven out of Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese army, a former Khmer Rouge prison chief has been found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, managed the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, were up to 17,000 people are thought to have died.

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