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warsaw pact allies. that is an interesting counterpoint. that proposal was a thinly veiled way of trying to preclude the deployment of nuclear weapons in west germany as the newly formed nato alliance struggled to deter aggression by the red army. it is not in the spirit of what we think about to support. there have been a successful negotiation of a number of zones. you are right to point us to the longevity of the original proposal for a nuclear free weapons zone. it is the 1995 mtp review that everyone focuses on. taking a thoughtful step beyond the nuclear focus idea of a middle east zone and focusing upon a verifiable middle east zone free of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, biological, and their delivery systems. calling upon the five nuclear weapon states under the mpt to give support to this. the history of how everyone has tried to, and so far not done so well, to live out the promise and the hopes is the kind of thing we don't need to get into too much detail here. if you are interested and our understanding, i would refer you to the working paper we submitted last year. it is publicly available on the u.n. website.

poland and the warsaw pact allies and that is an interesting counterpoint because that proposal was a thinly veiled way of precluding or trying to the -- preclude the deployment of weapons in west germany as the newly formed nato alliance struggles to deter aggression by the red army. to weaponizeort multilateral diplomacy in service of a strategic agenda and not at all in the service of the kind of peace and security we think such things ought to support. since those times, there has been successful negotiation of a number of sounds and you are quite right to point to the longevity of the original proposal in the middle east. in this context, of course, it is the 1995 resolution that is the document around which , takingons have focused a thoughtful step beyond the originally nuclear focused idea of a middle east zone and focusing on an effectively verifiable middle east zone free .f weapons of mass destruction to advance that, everyone has called to look for practical steps to move forward and calling upon the 5 nuclear weapon states to give support to this. the history of how everyone has tried to and so far not done very well to live out that promise and those hopes is not