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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 11. Juli 2005 / Time Line July 11, 2005
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Changes to Nuclear Security Treaty Adopted
Reuters -- Member nations on Friday adopted changes to the 1979
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
Australia, Canada, Japan, the United States and 20 European
countries proposed the amendments, which would require signatories
to create a competent regulatory body and adopt legislation to
protect nuclear material, according to Reuters. A total of 89
countries voted in favor of the changes. Existing rules for
securing shipments were broadened to cover nuclear materials being
transported or stored within a country, the International Atomic
Energy Agency said in a statement.
The changes would come into effect after ratification by two-thirds
of the 112 member states to the original convention, which the
agency said could take several years
07/11/2005
39,000 Iraqis killed in fighting, new study finds
By Irwin Arieff
- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11220315.htm
UNITED NATIONS, July 11 (Reuters) - Some 39,000 Iraqis have been
killed as a direct result of combat or armed violence since the
U.S.-led invasion, a figure considerably higher than previous
estimates, a Swiss institute reported on Monday.
The public database Iraqi Body Count, by comparison, estimates that
between 22,787 and 25,814 Iraqi civilians have died since the March
2003 invasion, based on reports from at least two media
sources.
No official estimates of Iraqi casualties from the war have been
issued, although military deaths from the U.S.-led coalition forces
are closely tracked and now total 1,937.
The new estimate was compiled by the Geneva-based Graduate
Institute of International Studies and published in its latest
annual small arms survey, released at a U.N. news conference.
It builds on a study published in The Lancet, a British medical
journal, last October, which concluded there had been 100,000
"excess deaths" in Iraq from all causes since March 2003. That
figure was derived by conducting surveys of Iraqi mortality data
during the war and comparing the results to similar data collected
before the war.
Britain's government rejected The Lancet's conclusions shortly
after their publication.
The Swiss institute said it arrived at its estimate of Iraqi deaths
resulting solely from either combat or armed violence by
re-examining the raw data gathered for the Lancet study and
classifying the cause of death when it could.
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