Germany’s Green Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has challenged NATO

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Series Details 10/12/98, Volume 4, Number 45
Publication Date 10/12/1998
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Date: 10/12/1998

to scale down its dependence on nuclear weapons. He also repeated his call for the military alliance to drop the option of the first use of nuclear weapons. Speaking at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels this week, Fischer said the organisation should create a “climate of disarmament” by reducing these arsenals and only considering using them as a last resort.

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