Meeting is nonproliferation. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with rule 37 of the councils provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of the republic of north korea to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda. Members of the council have before them document s 2717 769. The text of the draft was initially submitted by the United States of america. The council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. Would those in favor of the draft resolution contend in document s2017769, please raise their hand. The result of the voting is as follows. The draft resolution received 15 votes in favor. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as a result, resolution 2375 of 2017. I now give the floor to those members of the council who want to make statements after the vote. I give the floor to representative of the
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im daryl kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, and as most of you know we are an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 19 said one and we are dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons which would of course be nuclear, chemical, biological weapons as well as certain conventional weapons that pose particular harm in risk to civilians. You can find more about the Arms Control Association, its history, its ongoing work and to get more information also about these issues through website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter at arms control now. The latest issue of our journal arms control today just went online so you can check that out there. You can also check out our resources on our arms control out which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleag
We are honored to have with us the new United Nations under secretary general and high representative of the un secretarygeneral for disarmament affairs. Twenty, it comes to this izumi nakamitsu, she was also before that a professor of International Relations at. [inaudible] university in tokyo. She, like chris ford, has a tough job. In her case, helping to guide the secretary general and un Member States on the in op divisive question of how to Work Together to reduce and eliminate Nuclear Dangers and how to enforce global treaties that prohibit other weapons of mass destruction. And particular the chemical weapons. She has been very active monitoring the preparatory meeting for the 2029. Ablation review conference and she has been tracking negotiations on the new Nuclear Weapons prohibition treaty and shes been working to build support for the un and the organization for prohibition of chemical weapons investigation into the recent and terrible serum gas attack in syria. Madame high
On the second anniversary of Putin s war in Ukraine, Olamide Samuel writes that the invasion has upset the fragile balance of obligations in the NPT’s bargain by dramatically increasing the perceived salience of nuclear weapons and reigniting motivations for proliferation. In response, nuclear weapon states choosing to reinforce their extended deterrence commitments inadvertently devalues the wider framework of security assurances granted to non-nuclear weapon states and the perceived value of the NPT’s grand bargain.
APRIL 12, 2023 Center for International Maritime Security, By LtCol Brent Stricker This article is part of a series that will explore the use and legal issues surrounding military zones employed during peace and war to control the entry, exit, and activities of forces operating in these zones. These works build on the previous Maritime…