UN Security Council to discuss nuclear disarmament today - March 18th
Posted: 18th March 2024
The UN Security Council will hold a briefing and discussion today on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. The session, which can be watched live on UNTV, is being held during the UNSC Presidency of Japan.
The objective of the discussion is to promote dialogue between nuclear and non-nuclear weapon States. “Conducting discussions towards a world without nuclear weapons — with the participation of nuclear weapons States — is “extremely relevant and meaningful,” says Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in New York.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to brief the Council at this session.
Watch the UN Security Council session on nuclear disarmament
UN Security Council and engaging the nuclear weapon states:
Related civil society initiatives
Several civil society initiatives are related to today’s Security Council session on engaging nuclear weapon states in nuclear disarmament. These include, amongst others:
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Open Letter by NoFirstUse Global which was sent to all UN Security Council Members on March 11 calling for the UN and the next NPT Review Conference to ‘affirm that the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible’.
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Joint statement of 170 civil society organizations presented to the 2023 NPT Prep Com in Vienna encouraging nuclear armed and allied states to replace nuclear deterrence with common security;
- Abolition 2000 working paper to the 2023 NPT Com in Vienna on Frameworks for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World;
- Legal Alternatives to War (LAW not War), which advances the rule of law – especially through use of the International Court of Justice – to resolve conflicts and achieve security, rather than the threat or use of force (including the threat or use of nuclear weapons).
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