Sentences with phrase «preventing weapons proliferation»

Officials won't specify exactly what these changes are but they promise that the time needed for a visas mantis check — a security review aimed at preventing weapons proliferation, and the main bottleneck in the visa approval process — will go down from a current average of several months to 2 weeks.

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Of the lessons Ambassador Pickering believes the US should take from the last decade into the next, foremost appeared the warning that military force is not a good substitute for diplomacy and, moreover, carries so many unintended consequences that it remains an unadvisable policy tool except in the most dire of circumstances — namely, in the face of direct aggression, in order to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocide.

Mr Brown said that the UK should act not unilaterally but together with other countries to cut their arsenal and prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons by other countries.

At the heart of the issue is whether Fouchier's scientific manuscripts need an export license under E.U. regulations issued in 2009 that aim to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.