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11 June 2008 |
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Stockholm - World military spending grew 45% in the past decade, with the US accounting for nearly half of all expenditure.
According to a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) annual report released yesterday, military spending grew 6% last year alone.
The increase was both "excessive and obscene", Jayantha Dhanapala, a Sipri member formerly in charge of disarmament affairs at the United Nations, told reporters in Stockholm, where the annual report was presented.
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A call for arms control: Dr Bates Gill, Director of SIPRI
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10 June 2008 |
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The next one or two years will see more high-level discussions and debate of arms control and disarmament, said Dr Bates Gill, Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute at the launching press conference of SIPRI yearbook in Stockholm on Monday.
Commenting on the increased military spending in the world, Jayantha Dhanapala, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs said considering the UN Millenium Development Goals of halving the 2 billion people who live in absolute poverty in the world by 2015 and the rising global food prices which hit the poor hard, ‘ we see this military expenditure being excessive'.
Dhanapala stressed that weapons based security is very insecure security. There should be more investment in development which will provide substantial and endurable security to the world.
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Concluding remarks by Mr. Dhanapala at the press launch of the SIPRI Yearbook 2008
From pie in the sky toward a nuke-free world
20 March 2008, The Asahi Shimbun, Op-Ed, p. 23, Jayantha Dhanapala
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A distinguished diplomatic career
that spans 40 years |
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