Speaking at the National Consultative Committee on Disarmament Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, stipulated: "The most effective, expeditious and practical way to achieve and sustain the abolition of nuclear weapons is to negotiate a comprehensive, irreversible, binding, verifiable treaty - a Nuclear Weapons Convention."

The international community must wake up to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the Australian chairman of a new disarmament body says.

"The scale of the havoc and the devastation that can be wreaked by one major nuclear weapon alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else into the category of insignificance." - Gareth Evans.

I personally cannot conceive any circumstances when any Government could justify the use of modern nuclear weapons, so I strongly support moves to achieve a nuclear free world."

- Rt Hon. Jim Bolger, New Zealand Prime Minister 1990-97, New Zealand Ambassador to US 1998-2002.