NEW YORK, 24 November (Office for Disarmament Affairs) The second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be held at the United Nations Headquarters from 27 November-1 December 2023. Juan Ramón de la Fuente (Mexico) was elected as President of the Meeting. The Treaty, the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty…
In March 2003, the United States launched an invasion of Iraq on false pretenses and without a clear long-term strategy. Twenty years later, it is repeating many of the same mistakes in Ukraine.This time, however, the stakes are much higher. The United States is no longer the undisputed superpower that it was in the early 2000s.
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 14 November 2022 – The heads of three UN entities and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today urged States to support a new political declaration to protect civilians from explosive weapons in populated areas.