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PARIS — France’s president has presented an ambitious European plan to the United Nations to revive global nuclear disarmament efforts.
Nicolas Sarkozy says the EU wants a global ban on nuclear tests, a moratorium on production of fissile material and a treaty banning ground-to-ground short- and medium-range nuclear missiles.
France is a nuclear power and currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Sarkozy says France is “convinced of the necessity to work for general disarmament.” Sarkozy presented the plan in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released by Sarkozy’s office Monday.
A new international group of former world dignitaries is launching a campaign in Paris on Tuesday for eliminating nuclear weapons.
