On August 3rd, VERTIC will host a side event at the meeting of the NPT Preparatory Committee to showcase multidisciplinary work and global perspectives on irreversible nuclear disarmament.
Title: Irreversibility of Nuclear Disarmament
Date: 3 August 2023
Time: 13:15 – 14:30 CEST, Lunch provided from 12:50 in the MOE space
Location: Vienna International Centre, Conference Room M6
Hosts: Governments of Norway and the United Kingdom, and VERTIC
Speakers:
Ambassador Aidan Liddle, UK’s Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament
Ambassador Susan Eckey, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations
Joelien Pretorius, Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape
Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Director of the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program at the VCDNP
Irma Arguello, Director of NPSGlobal Foundation
Alberto Muti, Co-Programme Director for Verification and Monitoring (Acting) at VERTIC
For additional information about the event, please email Alberto Muti (alberto.muti@vertic.org) or Hailey Wingo (hailey.wingo@vertic.org).
The destruction of a building at Al Atheer carried out under the supervision of an IAEA Inspection team in 1992. The building had been used for Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons programme. Photo Credit: Action Team 1991-1998 / IAEA (CC BY-SA 2.0)
