The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Middle Powers Initiative hosted a conference entitled: “From Aspiration to reality: Nuclear Disarmament after the NPT Review.
This was the third in the series of post-NPT Review Conference collective consultations which began on the Peace Boat in June and continued at the Hiroshima Conference in July. 2020 Vision Campaign Director, Aaron Tovish, chaired the first panel: “Activation of the Action Plan: Strategies to Advance the Nuclear Weapons Convention or Framework of Separate Instruments” and, at the end of the session, introduced Mayors for Peace’s Representatives to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Gary Cronan and Esteban Ramirez. The Conference was attended by three of the last four Presidents of NPT Review Conferences – Jayantha Danapala (1995), Sergio Duarte (2005), and Libran Cabactulan (2010) – as well as ambassadors and experts from twenty governments. It provided an opportunity to continue the dialogue begun with the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Basel City Hall a couple of weeks earlier regarding possible support for a fourth consultation in the spring of 2011 that would focus on action to facilitate the start of negotiations on stabling a NWFW.
Please find attached the speech by Aaron Tovish, International Director of the 2020 Vision Campaign.
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