The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy has been working since
1995 to promote effective approaches to international security, disarmament
and arms control. Engaging with governments and civil society, Acronym
provides reporting, analysis and strategic thinking on a range of issues
relevant to peace and security, with special emphasis on treaties and
multilateral initiatives.
The Acronym Institute publishes the journal Disarmament Diplomacy, with comprehensive overview of
news, events and documentation relating to disarmament negotiations and
developments in proliferation.
Founding Director & Editor: Dr Rebecca Johnson
rej@acronym.org.uk
Deputy Director and Website manager: Nicola Butler
The Acronym Institute is grateful to the Ford
Foundation, the Ploughshares
Fund, and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable
Trust for their enabling support of our work and publications, including
this website.
Highlights
This month's edition includes information on:
Disarmament Documentation is a compilation of recent official documents
and statements relevant to arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.
- Start worrying and learn to ditch the
bomb, Letter to The Times by Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen
and George Robertson, 30 June 2008
- EU High Representative for the CFSP
Javier Solana, Speech to the Conference on Disarmament, 25 June
2008
- French Defense White Paper, 17 June
2008
- IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei
Statement to the IAEA Board of Governors, 17 June 2008
- Proposal to Iran by China, France, Germany,
the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States of America
and the European Union, 14 June 2008
- EU High Representative for the CFSP
Javier Solana, Remarks at Press Conference in Tehran, 14 June 2008
- President Bush and Prime Minister Brown
on Iran, 14 June 2008
- IAEA Director General Dr Mohamed ElBaradei
Interview with Der Spiegel, 11 June 2008
The second PrepCom for the 2010 NPT Review Conference took place in Geneva
from 28 April to 9 May 2008.
Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament
Diplomacy participated, and her analyses are available below. For NGO
updates and the main statements and documents from the PrepCom see also
Reaching Critical Will.
Latest Updates and Briefings
- 2008 NPT PrepCom adopts report but not Chair's
factual and balanced Summary, Rebecca Johnson, May 9, 2008
- Chair's Factual Summary, May 9, 2008
- Statement by the Delegations of China, France,
the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and the United States of America, Delivered by UK Ambassador
John Duncan to the 2008 NPT PrepCom, Geneva, May 9, 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom: Debates over, plus safeguards
summary, Rebecca Johnson, 7 May 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom: Decisions taken, Security
Assurances debated, Rebecca Johnson, 6 May 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom: Calm first week and disarmament
roundup, Rebecca Johnson, 2 May 2008
- Day 3, General Debate ends with concerns
about cold war legacies of tactical nuclear weapons and contamination,
Rebecca Johnson, 30 April 2008
- General debate day 2: Of Common Endeavours
and Double Standards, Rebecca Johnson, 29 April 2008
- 2008 NPT PrepCom gets going smoothly, Report
of Day 1: April 28, 2008, Rebecca Johnson
Webcasts from Geneva
Reports from Disarmament Diplomacy
- In the News
- Toward a Nuclear-Free World,
George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn
and others, Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008
- A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn,
Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007
- Laying the Foundations for Multilateral
Disarmament, Des Browne MP, UK Secretary of State for Defence,
Statement to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, February 5,
2008
- Presentation of Le Terrible
in Cherbourg, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic,
March 21, 2008 (excerpts)
- Oslo Conference on Achieving the
Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Jonas Gahr Støre,
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Statement to the Conference
on Disarmament, Geneva, March 4, 2008 (excerpts)
- North Atlantic Council (NAC) Statement
on The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, March 28,
2008
- Bucharest Summit Declaration,
April 3, 2008
- US-Russia Strategic Framework Declaration,
April 6, 2008
- Conference on Disarmament fails
to adopt 2008 programme of work, tries new P-6 presidential draft
decision, March 13, 2008
NATO Heads of State and Government met in Bucharest against a backdrop
of strained relations between the US and Russia, particularly concerning
missile defence and the siting of US missile defence bases in Poland and
the Czech Republic. NATO also faces increasingly difficult conditions
in Afghanistan.
- NATO Communiqué analysis, by Martin Butcher,
3 April 2008
- Full text of the North Atlantic Council Communiqué is available at:
http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2008/p08-049e.html
- NATO Prepares for the Bucharest Summit,
by Martin Butcher, 2 April 2008
- NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting, by Martin
Butcher, 6 March 2008
- House of Commons Defence Committee Report
on the Future of NATO, 4 March 2008
- Acronym
Institute evidence to the Defence Committee Inquiry on the Future of
NATO, 19 March 2007
- NATO Informal Defence Ministers' Meeting Update
and Documents, by Martin Butcher, 11 February 2008
Read Martin Butcher's blog on the Summit at:
http://natobucharest.blogspot.com/
Latest developments and debate from the UK Parliament.
The UN First Committee took place at the United Nations, NY, from October
8 to November 2. As usual, the Acronym Institute participated and will
compile a detailed report of the developments. Details of the resolutions
and voting are available below:
For more information on the First Committee and General Assembly visit
our page on the United Nations.
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