African Nuclear Security Update, Volume 1 Issue 3
Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2011
Welcome to Issue 3 of the African
Nuclear Security Update. Issue 2 provided readers with an update on key events and publications related
to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) security in Africa. Issue 3 features
important international and regional events, features the latest WMD project
publications, and highlights important arms control events from December 2011 –
February 2012.
A number of disarmament and
non-proliferation events took place in from October and November including the United Nations General Assembly First Committee, a Wilton Park Conference entitled Nuclear non-proliferation:
bridging the North-South divide and the Forum on the Experience of Possible Relevance to the Creation
of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone in the Middle East.
During the next three months, ISS
will participate in a number of events including the Chemical Weapons
Convention 16th Conference of States Parties, the Biological and Toxin
Weapons Convention 7th Review Conference and a workshop on ‘Laying
the Grounds for 2012 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Security’. ISS will
also be hosting a workshop entitled ‘Africa
in the Global Nuclear Regime’ co-organised with the
International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS).
Developments on the African
continent over the last three months include Burundi becoming the 165th State
Party to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The country deposited its
instrument of ratification in London on 18 October 2011. In addition, the
government of Guinea approved legislation prohibiting the production, storage
and use of chemical weapons on 18 November 2011.
- October 2011:
African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty: an Update Russia’s Ratification
of Protocols and India Hopes for an Exemption - Noël Stott: Issue 9 (Click Here)
- November 2011:
Africa and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their
Destruction - Noël Stott: Issue 10 (Click Here)
- November 2011:
Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 in Africa - Amelia Broodryk and Noël Stott: Issue 11 (Click
Here)
- The
production and promotion by a Russian Federation company of a range of
munitions containing chemical irritants: A briefing note for CWC States Parties
prepared by Omega Research Foundation, Institute for Security Studies and the
University of Bradford (Click Here)
- Destruction
by Turkey of all remaining 120mm mortar munitions containing CS: A briefing
note for CWC States Parties prepared by Omega Research Foundation, Institute
for Security Studies and the University of Bradford (Click Here)
2011
- 28 November - 2 December: 16th Conference of States Parties to the
Chemical Weapons Convention, The Hague (Click
Here)
- 29 November - 1 December: Laying the Grounds for 2012 - Nuclear
Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Security,
Amman (Click Here)
- 5 - 22 December: 7th Review Meeting of States Parties to the Biological
Weapons Convention, Geneva (Click Here)
- 5 - 9 December: Africa in the Global Nuclear Regime: a workshop organised by the ISS and the
International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS), South Africa (Click Here)
- 12 - 16 December: Conference on Challenges
of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, Wilton Park (Click Here)
2012
- 1 - 2 February: Progress on Securing Africa’s Nuclear Resources: An
Experts’ Workshop, ISS, South Africa
- 14 - 16 March: Africa and
Non-proliferation Treaty Regime, ISS and Wilton Park Workshop, South Africa
- 23 March: 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security
Symposium, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- 26 - 27 March: 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, Seoul, Republic of
Korea
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