
Dalla pagina web, dedicata all’evento, dell’università australiana “La Trobe” – a cui il “Centre for Dialogue” assieme all’EPLO hanno contribuito – riportiamo alcune note esplicative:
“The Athens Dialogue . . . seeks to establish a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in an area seething with tensions and misunderstandings. Both at the conceptual and practical level the discussions that took place were sober and pregnant with possibilities.
All this brings home to us the importance of initiatives such as the Athens Dialogue which aim to eliminate the bomb from an area rife with tensions and prone to conflict. The Athens Dialogue has addressed this problem at various levels both conceptually and procedurally – exploring obstacles standing in the way of such zones, examining the untenability of the concept of nuclear deterrence, analysing the transformation taking place in the Arab world, bringing inter-religious perspectives to bear on the problem, unravelling the economic and cultural factors that must be considered and working out schemes of verification.”
In calce all’articolo è possibile scaricare il report completo, redatto in 4 lingue (Inglese, Arabo, Ebraico e Farsi).
Nota:
Si segnala anche l’articolo “Dialogue on Middle East Biological, Nuclear, and Chemical Weapons Disarmament -Constraints and Opportunities”, anch’esso focalizzato sulla creazione di una “free zone” mediorientale, libera da armi di distruzione di massa.