2014 Nuclear Security Summit
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The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in The Hague, the Netherlands, on March 24 and 25, 2014. It was the third edition of the conference, succeeding the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. The 2014 summit was attended by 58 world leaders (5 of which from observing international organizations), some 5,000 delegates and some 3,000 journalists. The representatives attending the summit included US President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The main goal of the conference was generally to improve international cooperation and more specifically to assess which of the objectives that were set at the previous summits in Washington, D.C., and Seoul had not been accomplished in the previous four years and proposing ways of achieving them. The Nuclear Security Summit aimed to prevent nuclear terrorism by: reducing the amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world – especially highly enriched uranium improving the security of all nuclear material and radioactive sources improving international cooperation Countries that participated were interested in leading a certain security theme to a higher level.
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