Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday called for concerted action by all countries to enhance nuclear security while stressing the need to properly address the challenge.
The Nuclear Security Summit, which was aimed at locking down nuclear materials worldwide, ended here on Tuesday afternoon with a communique and a work plan urging concrete actions and measures.
The final communique Tuesday of the 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signed a plutonium disposition protocol on Tuesday, which is aimed at eliminating "excess weapons-grade plutonium from defense programs. "
In a bid to provide assistance to other developing countries, Chinese President Hu Jintao said that China is "considering setting up a nuclear security 'Center of Excellence' in order to play a bigger role in regional nuclear security."
President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday said he would welcome the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to participate in the next nuclear security summit if "substantive results" are achieved at the six-party nuclear disarmament talks.
The United States, Canada and Mexico agreed to work together with the International Atomic Energy Agency to convert Mexico's research reactor from the use of highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium fuel, the White House said on Tuesday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama here on Monday to exchange views on China-Japan relations and other issues of common interest.
China hopes that various parties will continue to step up diplomatic efforts and actively seek effective ways to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiations, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ma Zhao said Monday afternoon in Washington.
Faced with the growing threat of nuclear terrorism, the Nuclear Security Summit will offer an opportunity for the international community to forge new agreements to protect nuclear materials and technology.
Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani criticized on Sunday the new US nuclear strategy, pointing out that it is a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the local satellite Press TV reported.
China's nuclear posture is "an important contribution" to international disarmament and non-proliferation efforts, a former senior US official said.