ISS Seminar: Understanding the Conference on Disarmament (CD)

Date: 2008-08-06 to Invalid date

ISS Seminar: Understanding the Conference on Disarmament (CD)
Pretoria, 6 August 2008

 

Hosted by the Arms Management Programme, ISS Tshwane (Pretoria)

 

Speaker: Johann Kellerman, Counsellor: Disarmament, South African Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva

 

The Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament (CD) is the international multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations.  Although the CD has a permanent agenda, since it successfully completed negotiations of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, its members have been unable to reach agreement on a programme of work and so have been prevented from addressing substantive issues including a Fissile Material Cut Off Treaty (FMCT). On 3 June 2008, the Netherlands’ representative to the CD vowed not to speak again during the 2008 session unless it adopts a programme of work.

 

The aim of this seminar is therefore to gain a greater understanding of the CD’s modus operandi and to discuss how both governments and civil society can put pressure on its members to develop and adopt a substantive programme of work, including negotiating a FMCT, the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS) and negative security assurances.

 

Venue: ISS Conference Room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 361 Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
(Parking in Brooklyn Mall and at ABSA Court)

 

Time: 10h30 (tea and coffee)
11h00 (seminar starts)
13h00 (light lunch)

 

RSVP: Ms Amelia du Rand, E-mail: [email protected], Phone: (012) 346 9500

 

Seminar Documentation