Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament Go Hand in Hand

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu

Following are extensive excerpts from remarks by Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), at the Roundtable Discussion on the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) hosted by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations on 25 October 2018. Ambassador Dato’ Sri Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob of Malaysia has been appointed as Chair of the Third Preparatory Committee session of this NPT review cycle from April 29 to May 10, 2019 in New York. – The Editor

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UN High-Level Meeting Reflects Broad Support for Total Nuclear Disarmament – Thai

การประชุมระดับสูงขององค์การสหประชาชาติสะท้อนให้เห็นถึงการสนับสนุนอย่างกว้างขวางสำหรับการขจัดอาวุธนิวเคลียร์

โดย Santo D. Banerjee

นิวยอร์ก (IDN) – องค์การสหประชาชาติได้ปฏิบัติตามเป้าหมายในการลดอาวุธนิวเคลียร์มาตั้งแต่การนำมติสมัชชาใหญ่ครั้งแรกมาใช้ในปี 1946: แต่ก็เป็นที่ทราบกันว่าประเทศที่เป็นเจ้าของอาวุธนิวเคลียร์นั้นมีเงินทุนแน่นหนาและมีแผนการระยะยาวในการทำให้คลังสรรพาวุธนิวเคลียร์ของตนทันสมัย ในปี 2013 องค์การสหประชาชาติจึงได้ประกาศให้วันที่ 26 กันยายนเป็นวันสากลแห่งการขจัดอาวุธนิวเคลียร์

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The INF Treaty Looks Likely to be a Dead Letter by April 2019

Viewpoint by Dan Smith

The following article by Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), first appeared on October 23, 2018 on the Institute’s website. He has a long record of research and publication on a wide range of conflict and peace issues. Smith served four years in the UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory group, two of which (2010–2011) were as Chair. – The Editor

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Experts Underline the Gravity of a Potential Nuclear Conflict

By Claire Ochroch

This report first appeared on October 25, 2018 in The Daily Pennsylvanian.

NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Speakers from across the world stopped by Penn’s Perry World House on October 23 evening to discuss the importance of denuclearization.

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Participation in Landmark NATO Exercise Reveals Iceland’s Dilemma

By Lowana Veal

REYKJAVIK (IDN) – Iceland, the most sparsely populated country in Europe, has no standing army. But it is a founding member of the 29-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and is therefore taking part in Trident Juncture 2018, the largest NATO exercise since the end of the Cold War in December 1991.

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Kazakh Initiated Forum Underlines Importance of NWFZs

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN) – High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu has expressed her “gratitude” to the Kazakhstan for their continued partnership with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), including through a series of Nuclear Discussion Forums (NDF), now in its eighth year.

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Full Potential of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones Has Yet to be Recognised

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu

The following are extensive excerpts from a statement by Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at a side event on October 18, 2018, organized by the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations on Consolidating and Enhancing Cooperation among Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones. – The Editor

NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Between the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which was signed in in 1967, to the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, which entered into force in 2009, the world has experienced a growing adherence from States to nuclear weapon-free zones treaties.

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Time Out for Nukes!

Viewpoint by Alice Slater

The author is a member of the World Beyond War Coordinating Committee and the UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

NEW YORK (IDN) – With 122 nations having voted last summer (July 2017) to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, its seems that the world is locked in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times.

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Reunión de alto nivel de la ONU refleja un amplio apoyo al desarme nuclear total

Por Santo D. Banerjee

NUEVA YORK (IDN) – Las Naciones Unidas han perseguido el objetivo del desarme nuclear desde la adopción de la primera resolución de la Asamblea General en 1946. Pero conscientes de que los países que poseen armas nucleares tienen planes bien financiados y a largo plazo para modernizar sus arsenales nucleares, en 2013 la ONU declaró el 26 de setiembre como el Día Internacional de la Eliminación Total de las Armas Nucleares.

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Japón considera formas de quitarse la camisa de fuerza e ir por el todo buscando la abolición nuclear

Por Katsuhiro Asagiri

Tokio (IDN) – El profundo interés de Japón por los esfuerzos de la comunidad internacional para ayudar a llevarnos a un mundo libre de armas nucleares fue destacado en el período previo a la conmemoración del Día internacional para la eliminación total de armas nucleares, el 26 de septiembre, el cual celebró por primera vez en 2014 de acuerdo con decisión de la Asamblea General de la ONU.

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