Aside from the Iran negotiations, other arms control cooperation is continuing, including between the US and Russia over the New START treaty to reduce strategic deployments, and over chemical weapons in Syria. Despite lack of any visible progress toward ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, the signs are encouraging that Egypt and others in the region want to keep trying, and will not use the issue of a WMD-free zone to blow up the review conference, as had been feared.
并非所有消息都是坏消息。除了伊朗谈判，其他军备控制合作也在继续，包括美国和俄罗斯之间裁减战略核武器部署的新START条约和销毁叙利亚化学武器合作。尽管在消除中东大规模杀伤性武器方面仍没有取得可见的进展，但仍不乏令人鼓舞的信号，埃及和其他中东国家愿意继续努力，并且不会如许多人担心的那样利用无大规模杀伤性武器区来阻挠评估会议。