On April 21st, BASIC and The Third Nuclear Age Project at the University of Leicester hosted a panel event to discuss what to expect at the next OEWG.
United Nations
Event: What to Expect: the OEWG on Reducing Space Threats
OEWG on Reducing Space Threats: Join experts at this BASIC and Third Nuclear Age panel event on Thursday April 21st, 2022, 2pm BST (London)
What’s next for the Nuclear Ban Treaty?
The official draft text of a treaty to ban nuclear weapons is likely to be published in the next two weeks (15-26 May 2017).
Moving the OEWG forward
Global multilateral nuclear disarmament has proven over the last 70 years to be a process characterised by stagnation, originating from a series of competing international interests.
Moving the OEWG forward
Global multilateral nuclear disarmament has proven over the last 70 years to be a process characterised by stagnation, originating from a series of competing international interests.
2016 OEWG: Polarisation in Perspective
Discussions about the feasibility and necessity of a legal ban on nuclear weapons took centre stage at the first session of the United Nation’s Open-Ended Working Group on taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament.
The OEWG is taking multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations forward
The new Open-ended Working Group (OEWG), established in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 70/33 adopted in December 2015, opened on 22 February in Geneva. It will meet over the course of 15 working days in February, May and August of 2016 and submit a final report in October.
April 2010
This has been a whirlwind month of international events involving nuclear diplomacy, running up to next week’s Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York.