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General (Retired) Jehangir Karamat has arrived in Australia

Members of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament two days first conference starts in Sydney on Monday 20 Oct 2008. Australia is hosting the first meeting of a new international nuclear non-proliferation body with Foreign Minister Stephen Smith saying he was hopeful of progress on disarmament. The commission, chaired by former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans and Japan's former top diplomat Yoriko Kawaguchi, is tasked with reinvigorating the global debate on the spread of nuclear weapons and disarmament.
Mr. Stephen Smith said the Australian government would give 3.8 million dollars to the body, which was proposed by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd following a visit to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the site of the world's first atomic attack. The commission is focus on the success of a 2010 conference on the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and promote discussion on the need disarmament and to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Four members were unable to make the Sydney meeting Turki Al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia ,South Africa's Frene Noshir Ginwala, India's Brajesh Mishra and Shirley Williams from the UK. Other commissioners who are attending Sydney conference are include former Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Alexei Arbatov from Russia , François Heisbourg from France, Klaus Naumann from Germany, Ernesto Zedillo from Mexico, Wang Yingfan from China and General ®Jehangir Karamat from Pakistan.

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