Just a quick
reminder to followers of this website that its usual contributors are
currently contributing to another site 'Effective Measures', in joint cooperation with
ILPI.
The latest
posting on the UNIDIR/ILPI website comments
on recent efforts to get negotiations underway in the Conference on Disarmament
(CD).
The posting also
offers a suggestion for an approach that would use the CD's rule requiring a
programme of work in the manner originally intended by the Rules of Procedure (rule 28).
And the posting
explains briefly the shortcomings of the ambitious, multi-mandated approaches
of recent years.
By the way, the
UNIDIR/ILPI website contains a glossary of terms in common usage on matters
relevant to nuclear disarmament and to the 'effective measures' which parties
to the NPT are required by that treaty to negotiate. (Hence the title of
that website.)
Tim Caughley
Resident Senior Fellow
UNIDIR
(Photograph: poster displayed in a temporary exhibition on nuclear disarmament in the Palais des Nations, Geneva)
