Nuclear Disarmament: The Stockholm Initiative and the NPT Review Conference

Originally scheduled for 2020, the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is now tentatively planned for  August 2021. Ahead of this Conference, a group of 16 states from different regions and security contexts joined in 2019 to form the Stockholm Initiative on Nuclear Disarmament, in order to advance nuclear disarmament in a time of a deteriorating international security environment. At this webinar, representatives from Sweden, Kazakhstan, and Germany will discuss the Stockholm Initiative as well as the most pressing issues facing the agenda of nuclear disarmament. This includes the denuclearization of the DPRK, the fate of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, and arms control dialogue among nuclear powers.

Speakers:

Amb. Ann-Sofie Nilsson
Ambassador for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Amb. Dastan Yeleukenov
Advisor to the Director, Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies and former Head of the Department for International Security, Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Commentator:

Olaf Poeschke
Deputy Head of Division, Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Federal Foreign office, Berlin

Moderator:

Svante E. Cornell
Director, Institute for Security and Development Policy