Nuclear Disarmament: Humanitarian Consequences: OEWG

Dr. John Borrie, UNIDIR’s Chief of Research, made a presentation on 26 February to the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) which is meeting in Geneva this year.

The presentation was entitled: 'Measures to increase awareness and understanding of the complexity of and interrelationship between the wide range of humanitarian consequences that would result from any nuclear detonation’.

The text of the presentation can be found on the OEWG's website via this link.

The OEWG was established by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of ‘taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations’. It opened in Geneva on 22 February. Its next session begins in Geneva on 2 May.

Tim Caughley
Resident Senior Fellow

Nuclear Disarmament: OEWG

The 2016 Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) established by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of ‘taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations’ opened in Geneva on 22 February. The text of remarks made by UNIDIR during the opening session of the OEWG have been posted (in two parts) on the joint UNIDIR/ILPI website, ‘Effective Measures’. 

The links are:

http://unidir.ilpi.org/?p=460

http://unidir.ilpi.org/?p=463

The remarks were made by way of introduction to OEWG Brief no. 2, a paper prepared by UNIDIR as background for participants in the OEWG.

Tim Caughley

Resident Senior Fellow

UNIDIR