Tuesday 19 June 2018

Where was 28th Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group held?

Where was 28th Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group held?

options

1) Latvia

2)Lithuania

3)Estonia

4)Belarus

answer

1) Latvia


Other details

28th Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was held in Jūrmala, Latvia between 14th and 15th June 2018

The NSG plenary meeting was chaired by Ambassador Jānis Zlamets of Latvia

 last meeting was held in Bern in 2017

one of the points discussed was to continue to consider the implementation of the 2008 Statement on Civil Nuclear Cooperation with India and discussed the relationship with India

The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a multilateral export control regime and a group of nuclear supplier countries that seek to prevent nuclear proliferation by controlling the export of materials, equipment and technology that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.

The NSG was founded in response to the Indian nuclear test in May 1974 and first met in November 1975.

A series of meetings in London from 1975 to 1978 resulted in agreements on the guidelines for export; these were published as INFCIRC/254  by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

these guidelines are known as the Zangger "Trigger List"


Latvia is a country on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia.

Capital: Riga
Capital and largest city: Riga; 
Currency: Euro

As of 2018, the NSG has 48 participating governments:

     Argentina
     Australia
     Austria
     Belarus
     Belgium
     Brazil
     Bulgaria
     Canada
     People's Republic of China
     Croatia
     Cyprus
     Czech Republic
     Denmark
     Estonia
     Finland
     France
     Germany
     Greece
     Hungary
     Iceland
     Ireland
     Italy
     Japan
     Kazakhstan
     Latvia
     Lithuania
     Luxembourg
     Malta
     Mexico
     Netherlands
     New Zealand
     Norway
     Poland
     Portugal
     Romania
     Russia
     Serbia
     Slovakia
     Slovenia
     South Africa
     South Korea
     Spain
     Sweden
      Switzerland
     Turkey
     Ukraine
     United Kingdom
     United States






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