On 19 April 2025 the Iraq Pugwash Group organized a conference in Sulaymaniya to commemorate the use of chemical weapons … More
Tag: WMDFZ
UNGA Middle East WMDFZ Conference takes place in New York
From 19-22 November 2019 Pugwash President Sergio Duarte attended the opening of general debate of the conference convened in accordance … More
Video: “Nuclear and WMD-Free Zones in the Middle East”, 62nd Pugwash Conference
Nuclear and WMD-Free Zones in the Middle East 10m30s Nasser Hadian (Iran), Professor of political science at the University of … More
Vienna meeting on the WMD-free-zone in the Middle East
On 4 May 2017, Pugwash held a round-table event on prospects for a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East … More
London Symposium – 20th Anniversary of the Pugwash/Rotblat Nobel Peace Prize
On 18 December 2015 Pugwash explored our current themes and honored past achievements with a special event, “Addressing Extremism, Regional … More
Video: Simons Symposium, “Prospects for Nuclear- and WMD-Free Zones”
PL7 – PLENARY SESSION: Prospects for Nuclear- and WMD-Free Zones (Nagasaki University) Chair: Amb. (ret.) Jayantha Dhanapala, Pugwash President (Sri … More
Herzliya workshop on the Middle East
On 5-6 June 2015 Pugwash, in collaboration with the Alliance Center of Tel Aviv University, convened its 13th meeting in … More
Workshop on prospects for the 2015 NPT Review Conference
On 16 May 2015 Pugwash convened a workshop at the end of the third week of the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation … More
Vienna meeting on the NPT Review Conference
On 27-28 February Pugwash convened a consultation on the upcoming NPT Review Conference. The meeting was hosted by the Mission of the … More
New York consultation on WMD, the Middle East and Non-Proliferation
On 3 May 2014 Pugwash convened a consultation on the margins of the NPT Review Conference in New York City. … More
Report Istanbul Working Group 7 – From CW disarmament in Syria to a Middle East free from CW
Rapporteur: Jean Pascal Zanders This working group explored CW elimination from Syria, universalisation of the CWC; and potential impacts on the … More
Report: Istanbul Working Group 1 – Nuclear weapons and their elimination
Co-conveners: Wael Al-Assad, Francesco Calogero, Sergio Duarte Co-rapporteurs: Francesca Giovannini and Joelien Pretorius The working group discussed disarmament under four … More
VIDEO: Istanbul – Q&A with Shaker, Al-Assad, and Laajava
Q&A Session with Amb. Mohamed Shaker, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (Egypt), Amb. Wael Al-Assad, Representative of the Secretary General … More
VIDEO: Istanbul – Amb. Jaakko Laajava
Amb. Jaakko Laajava, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland)addresses the audience on … More