THE HAGUE, Netherlands – 1 December 2017 – South Sudan announced today that it “has all but concluded the process of joining the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)”. Upon joining the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), countries become Member States of the OPCW and enjoy the full benefits of the Convention. H.E. Mr […]
On August 6 – Hiroshima Day – I participated in a groundbreaking event at the South African Museum in Cape Town entitled The Missing Link: Peace and Security Surrounding Uranium. The event had been organised by the Congolese Civil Society of South Africa to put a spotlight on the link between Japan and the Democratic […]
On 15 July 2009, the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone entered into force for 28 of the 53 African Union Member States and three of the five Nuclear Weapon States under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Five years later, a look back at actions and effort of stakeholders in […]
28 Apr 2015 – Academic symposium in the margins of the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and energy: Fresh ideas for the future. The symposium was been hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN – together with UNODA, Harvard and CNS.
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Today, the United States — together with our allies and partners — has reached a historic understanding with Iran, which, if fully implemented, will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. As President and Commander-in-Chief, I have no greater responsibility than the security of the American people. And I am […]
WASHINGTON—A diverse group of officials from more than 25 countries are developing a plan of action to build international capacity and address difficult monitoring and verification challenges that will need to be addressed in future arms control and nonproliferation agreements. Convened by the U.S. Department of State with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the International […]
South Africa has enough nuclear fuel for about six bombs – each of them would wipe out Washington, DC, or large sections of New York City. After apartheid officially ended with the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president, South Africa started extracting the uranium from the apartheid government’s cache of nuclear weapons. Some of […]
03.03.2015 — check against delivery– Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, We are living in tense times. The Ukraine conflict, Syria, Iraq, the advance of the ISIS terrorist group in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa – we face a large number of international crises, a situation we have not had to deal with before in […]
Independent nonproliferation experts can now get images offering much greater detail about Iran’s and North Korea’s above-ground nuclear facilities. Last week, the satellite company DigitalGlobe announced the U.S. Commerce Department had approved a long-standing license request to sell its highest-available resolution photographs to commercial clients. Previously, the U.S. government had forbidden the sale of images […]