Delegates at a plenary session of Russian Energy Week taking place this week in Moscow discussed how nuclear power is an “inalienable element of the sustainable development agenda”. The session, which was hosted by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, included panellists from Belarus, Egypt, Hungary and the UAE, as well as from the International Atomic Energy Agency […]

Russian Energy Week discusses role of nuclear in SDGs

Syria’s regime says it will need at least a year to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal, but if Libya’s experience is anything to go by, this is a hopelessly optimistic forecast. Damascus has provided the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with a full inventory of its chemical arsenal, in order to […]

9 years on, Libya still not free of chemical weapons