Proliferation Security Initiative Summit Expanded

This week’s gathering of the Proliferation Security Initiative in Washington was expanded to include five new nations, the U.S. State Department announced yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 5).

The original PSI members — Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States — attended the meeting. During October’s PSI meeting in London, however, the group agreed to involve additional nations. Canada, Denmark, Norway, Singapore and Turkey attended this week’s summit.

U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton called the two-day event a “success.” U.S. President George W. Bush launched the initiative in May to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction and missiles.

The gathering was the fifth summit for PSI members since the initiative was formed (U.S. State Department release, Dec. 17).

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