Barcelona Process adopts a statement calling on states in the Middle East to pursue a WMDFZ

Euro Mediterranean Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (formally known as the Barcelona Process), which included several states from the Middle East, adopted a statement calling on Middle Eastern states to pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable ME WMDFZ, to adhere to international and regional non-proliferation regimes and consider practical steps to prevent WMD proliferation and the accumulation of conventional arms.

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The ministers of Foreign Affairs from european countries, and 12 southern and eastern Mediterranean countries, held the first Euro-Mediterranean conference in Barcelona. November 28, 1995.