The global #nuclearweapons discourse must progress in a way that recognises that all States have a legitimate stake in this existential issue. #TPNW sceptics should start engaging with the legitimate security arguments expressed in + through the treaty

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TPNW supporters will need to engage treaty critics on their security arguments 'using all available fora where nuclear weapons and security can be addressed, including within #NPT .' Read alexander kmentt's piece on new #TPNW consultative process European Leadership Network (ELN): europeanleadershipnetwork.org/?p=22197

'Time to engage seriously with the TPNW’s security concerns'

Director for Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ELN Senior Network member alexander kmentt writes that opponents of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear

Time to engage seriously with the TPNW’s security concerns europeanleadershipnetwork.org/?p=22197 via European Leadership Network (ELN)

'We need rules, safety, and universal guardrails.
How we act now will define our era.'

📢 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for 'innovative and inclusive global governance tools for AI', to help foster safe AI innovation while addressing its ongoing harms and

Worth keeping in mind that there is no 'tactical nuclear warfare.' Any use would be escalation signaling as in 'we have the resolve to go ahead and kill a lot of people.' Responding by 'We also have the resolve to kill a lot of people' is the worst kind one can come up with.

We can't sleepwalk into a dystopian future where the power of AI is controlled by a few people - or worse, by opaque algorithms beyond human understanding.

We need rules. Safety. Universal guardrails.

How we act now will define our era. linkedin.com/pulse/we-canno…

Cluster munitions cause extensive civilian casualties and long-lasting problems.

Today marks 16 years of the Convention on Cluster Munitions that prohibits the use, production, stockpiling, & transfer of those weapons and requires States to ensure they claim no further victims.

We started today’s Workshop to prepare for PrepCom Session II ( #Geneva ) for 11 #NPT Review Conference. Thanks to alexander kmentt and Ambassador Matteo Fachinotti for co-organizing this event

Today, we commemorate the International Women's Day for #Peace and #Disarmament .

Despite their historic role in disarmament, women delegates make up only a third of participants in most disarmament forums. UNODA’s Gender policy aims to change that!

🔗 disarmament.unoda.org/topics/gender/

The Geneva Conventions represent the strongest universal consensus on the need to preserve #humanity in war & our shared understanding of #humanity characterized by the equal worth of all human beings.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President, addresses #UNSC 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6013YjVbl

Im aktuellen #specialissue der OZP plädiert Botschafter alexander kmentt dafür, dass #oesterreich weiterhin eine aktive, interessengeleitete Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik im Rahmen der #neutralität betreiben solle.
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Important Joint Statement of #G7 Academies of Sciences highlighting strong science basis for #humanitarian consequences of #nuclearweapons + the need to reaffirm commitment to achieving a world without nukes

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ICAN The Royal Society National Academy of Sciences

@ELN just published Paul Ingram and me on the extreme nature of nuclear deterrence. We argue nuclear deterrence harms relations over the long run, leaving a trail of poison behind much like the trail of radiation in the wake of a nuclear explosion.
europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/the…

Last week, Embaixada do Brasil em Viena and Brazil at the Conference on Disarmament participated in the “Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapon Systems”, hosted by MFA Austria.

Through a series of expert panels, #AWS2024Vienna laid out the challenges and urgent need for regulation of #AutonomousWeaponsSystems .

Il n’y a rien de magnifique Etienne Marcuz Oui, cette photo est dramatique car elle ne laisse pas apparaître la douleur des souffrances des populations #polynésiennes (+civils/soldats) et des pollutions environnementales
Pour aller plus loin
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'Japan FM reacts to US Senate hearing atomic bombings remarks,' NHK WORLD-JAPAN News www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne… #nuclearban #NPT

📢 ATTN: People & firms working on AI!

🇺🇳 António Guterres is seeking industry, scientists', states' & civil society input for a United Nations report to help begin negotiations on an autonomous weapons treaty.

📨 Email your input via Word doc to [email protected] & [email protected] by May 25.

FLI's Executive Director Anthony Aguirre joined an expert panel on 'Geopolitics and Machine Politics: How to Move Forward on AWS' at the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons.

📹 Check out his key points below ⬇️ #AWS2024

Now dialling in to our ⁦European Leadership Network (ELN)⁩ Network briefing on emerging and disruptive technologies, and how they interact with nuclear risks, with ⁦Belen Bianco⁩ and ⁦alexander kmentt⁩, fresh from the recent Vienna conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems