Non-Proliferation Treaty review Conference, Jan 2022

Posted: 17th December 2021

After much hope, lack of political will has made the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (RevCon) – to take place in January 2022 –look likely to be rather anticlimactic. As everyone has focused on the timing of the twice-postponed conference, the substance of the discussions has regrettably receded into the background. Moreover, after much deliberation, civil society will be allowed to attend, but only in small numbers. The conference will thus lack the energy of side events, of advocacy and tenacity that are the hallmarks of societal actors clamouring for nuclear disarmament. Who could ever forget the one million people demonstrating in Central Park in New York forty years ago to demand an end to nuclear weapons? European Leadership Network 16th Dec 2021  https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/one-minute-to-midnight-the-time-for-action-for-the-nuclear-dialogue-is-now/