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Calendar of Events
surrounding the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty
Preparatory Committee
April 30 - May 11, 2007
Vienna
NGOs have one room assigned to them in the Austria
Center in Vienna throughout the PrepCom. Use of this room
is divided up into three time slots: 10 AM-1 PM, 1:15-2:45
PM, and 3-6 PM.
To schedule your own event:
1. See the schedule below to find an available date and time
2. Email the Project
Manager to sign up for a time slot during the
PrepCom, or to notify her of another event you have scheduled.
To request the NGO room, please specify your preferred date
and time, title of your event, contact person information
and website address of sponsoring organization.
Sunday,
April 29
Welcome Reception and
Orientation for NGOs
Where: Donaucity Church, righ next to Austria Center
(venue of NPT Prepcom) (it is a strange-looking black box
of a building. you will not miss it.)
When: 6pm to 9pm
Contact: Thomas
Schoenfeld, NGO Committee on Peace, Jennifer Nordstrom,
Reaching Critical Will-WILPF
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Monday, April 30
Abolition Caucus Strategy
Meeting: Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Registration for NGOs
Where: Austria Center, 2nd Floor
When: Starting at 8 am
Contact: Ms. Kristin Jenssen,
Department for Disarmament Affairs
Website: http://disarmament.un.org
Launch of Securing
our Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
International Launch of the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Where: Plenary Room A
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Felicity
Hill
Website: www.icanw.org
Opposing nuclear rearmament:
Trident replacement, Star Wars and the urgency of a global
ban
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 3-6pm
Contact: Sam Akaki, Parliamentary
Officer, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
www.cnduk.org
Tuesday,
May 1
May Day: NPT PrepCom
is now highly likely to meet this day
Abolition Caucus Strategy
Meeting: Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Workshop with Mayor Akiba
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 10-12
Contact: Wolfgang
Schlupp-Hauck, Press Hut (German: Pressehütte), in
cooperation with Mayors for Peace
Website: www.pressehuette.de
Launch of Nuclear Disorder
or Cooperative Security?
U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and
Paths to Peace
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Jackie Cabasso,
Western States Legal Foundation
Website: www.wmdreport.org
The
Revised Model Nuclear Weapons Convention: A Tool for Nuclear
Disarmament
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Contact: Alyn Ware
Website: www.ialana.net
Mayors for Peace Event
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 5:45-7:15
Contact: Aaron Tovish,
for Mayors for Peace
Website: www.mayorsforpeace.org
Wednesday, May 2
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
NGO Briefing with Ambassador Meyer
of Canada
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9 - 10 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
NGO presentations to the PrepCom (likely--could
also be in the afternoon, in which case the afternoon sessions
would come to the morning)
Where: Plenary Room A
When: 10-1
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Towards 2010: Priorities for NPT Consensus.
An MPI panel
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Jim Wurst,
Middle Powers Initiative
Website: www.gsinstitute.org;
www.middlepowers.org
NGO Briefing with Ambassador Duncan
of the United Kingdom
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 2 - 3 pm
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Future Energy Supply: Nuclear Energy
and Renewable Energy in the light of the NPT
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 3-5 pm
Contact: Wolfgang
Schlupp-Hauck, Press Hut (German: Pressehütte), in
cooperation with Mayors for Peace
Website: www.pressehuette.de
Global Article 9 Campaign
to Abolish War
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 5:30-7:15 pm
Contact: Akira Kawasaki
Website: http://www.peaceboat.org/english/,
http://www.article-9.org/en/index
Thursday, May 3
exhibition: “Verifying
the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban”
Where: Austria Centre, Foyer A
When: all day
Contact: info@ctbto.org;
+43 (1) 26030 6200
Website: www.ctbto.org
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
CTBTO's "Putting
an end to nuclear test explosions:10 years of building
the verification regime and the lessons learned from the 9
October 2006 event in the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea"
Where: The New Operations Centre of the CTBTO, Vienna International
Centre, E-building, 6th floor
When: 9 - 10 am
Contact: info@ctbto.org;
+43 (1) 26030 6200
Website: www.ctbto.org
Space is limited. Please sign up with one of the CTBTO officers
at the CTBTO information desk in Foyer A or contact us at
info@ctbto.org or +43 (1) 26030 6200.
Fissile Materials
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 10:30-12:30
Contact: Regina
Hagen for IPFM and iGSE
Website: www.fissilematerials.org,
www.igse.net
BANg Youth Network: presentation of
DVD "Genie in a Bottle - Unleashed"
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 12.30-1.15pm
Contact: Julia Kramer
Website: www.BANg-europe.org
Balancing three with
six: moving towards a stable equilibrium: Approaches to
balanced implementation of NPT Articles III and VI
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Ian Davis,
BASIC, Michael Crowley,
VERTIC
Website: www.basicint.org;
www.vertic.org
Return to the International Court
on Disarmament Compliance
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 3:30-5:30
Contact: George Farebrother
Website: http://wcp.gn.apc.org/
exhibition: “Verifying
the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban”: opening by
CTBTO Executive Secretary Mr. Tibor Tóth
Where: Austria Centre, Foyer A
When: 4 pm, followed by reception
Contact: info@ctbto.org;
+43 (1) 26030 6200
Website: www.ctbto.org
Abolition2000-Europe General Assembly
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 5:45-7:45
Contact: Dominique Lalanne
website: www.abolition2000europe.org
Friday, May 4
exhibition: “Verifying
the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban”
Where: Austria Centre, Foyer A
When: all day
Contact: info@ctbto.org;
+43 (1) 26030 6200
Website: www.ctbto.org
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
NGO Briefing with Ambassador Tarui
of Japan
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9 - 10 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: here
The US-India Nuclear
Deal and the Future of the NPT: A Role for the Nuclear Suppliers
Group?
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: Friday, May 4, 10:30-12:30
Contact: Regina
Hagen for CNIC, Gensuikin, INESAP, and IPFM
Website: http://cnic.jp/english/,
www.gensuikin.org,
www.inesap.org,
www.fissilematerials.org
IALANA Board Metting (Open Session)
Where: NGO Office in the Austria Center (02 C 248)
When: 12:30 - 3:00 pm
Contact: Tomislav Chagall
Website: http://www.ialana.net/,
http://www.ialana.de/
A European proposal for nuclear disarmament
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 1:15-2:45 pm
Contact: Dominique Lalanne
Website: www.abolition2000europe.org
Organizing Meeting for Return to the
International Court
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 3:15-5:15 pm
Contact: George Farebrother
Website: http://wcp.gn.apc.org/
What approaches should be taken to
ensure a successful outcome of the 2010 Review Conference?
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 5:30-7:15 pm
Contact: Colin Archer
Website: www.ipb.org
Abolition Global Council Dinner: By
Invitation
Where: TBD
When: 7:30
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Saturday, May 5
Abolition2000 AGM
Where: The Church at Mexikoplatz 12, A 1020 Wien (near U 1
station Vorgartenstrasse)
When: 9 am to 6:30 pm
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org;
www.rideauinstitute.ca;
Download the flyer with agenda and info here
Monday, May 7
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Governmental Briefing with Ambassador
MacKay of New Zealand
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9 - 10 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Space event
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 10-12:30
Contact: Regina
Hagen for INESAP and Pugwash
Website: www.inesap.org,
www.pugwash.org
UNIDIR seminar on the CTBT
Where: Room O2 A 353
When: 1:15 - 2: 30
Website: www.unidir.org
Greenpeace Event: Nuclear Free Middle
East
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 4-6 pm
Contact: Merav
Datan, Mideast Political Advisor
Website: www.greenpeace.org,
www.greenpeace.org/mediterranean/campaigns/nuclear-free-middle-east
Tuesday, May 8
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Governmental Briefing with Egypt (Assistant
Foregin Minister, Mrs. Naela Gabr)
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9:30 - 10:30 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
US Nuclear
Weapons Policy: A Death Plan for Humanity
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Regina
Hagen, for INESAP and Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Website: www.inesap.org,
www.wagingpeace.org
Wednesday, May 9
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
NGO Briefing with Ambassador Kavanagh
of Ireland (TBC)
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9 -10 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Weapons in Space and the Disarmament/Nonproliferation
Regime
Where: Plenary Room A
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Rhianna Tyson,
Program Officer for Global Security Institute
Website: www.gsinstitute.org
CTBTO's "Putting
an end to nuclear test explosions:10 years of building
the verification regime and the lessons learned from the 9
October 2006 event in the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea"
Where: The New Operations Centre of the CTBTO, Vienna International
Centre, E-building, 6th floor
When: 2- 3pm
Contact: info@ctbto.org;
+43 (1) 26030 6200
Website: www.ctbto.org
Space is limited. Please sign up with one of the CTBTO officers
at the CTBTO information desk in Foyer A or contact us at
info@ctbto.org or +43 (1) 26030 6200.
Thursday, May 10
Governmental Briefing with Germany,
Mr. Rudiger Ludeking
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9-10 am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Implementing Disarmament Education
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 1:15-2:45
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan
Website: www.disarmamenteducation.org
CTBTO's "Putting
an end to nuclear test explosions:10 years of building
the verification regime and the lessons learned from the 9
October 2006 event in the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea"
Where: The New Operations Centre of the CTBTO, Vienna International
Centre, E-building, 6th floor
When: 2- 3pm
Contact: info@ctbto.org;
+43 (1) 26030 6200
Website: www.ctbto.org
Space is limited. Please sign up with one of the CTBTO officers
at the CTBTO information desk in Foyer A or contact us at
info@ctbto.org or +43 (1) 26030 6200.
Friday, May 11
Abolition Caucus Strategy Meeting:
Open
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 8-9am
Contact: Anthony
Salloum
Website: www.abolition2000.org
Governmental Briefing with Australia, Ambassador
Caroline Millar
Where: NGO Room in the Austria Center (02 C 246)
When: 9-10 am
Contact: Jennifer
Nordstrom, Reaching Critical Will
Website: www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Event Descriptions
The Revised
Model Nuclear Weapons Convention: A Tool for Nuclear Disarmament
In 1997 a group of scientists, lawyers and disarmament
experts drafted a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (Model
NWC) outlining the legal, technical and political requirements
for a nuclear weapons free world. The Model NWC, which was
circulated as UN Document A/C.1/52/7, has recently been updated
to take into account developments since 1997. In this panel,
a group of experts will outline the Model NWC, summarise the
revisions and discuss how it can assist deliberations and
negotiations for nuclear disarmament.
Sponsors (to be confirmed): International Association of
Laywers Against Nuclear Arms, International Network of Engineers
and Scientists for Global Responsibility, International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Article 9 of Japanese constitution
is a unique peace provision that renounces war as a mean for
settling international disputes and also prohibits the maintenance
of armed forces for this purpose The Global Article 9 Campaign
to Abolish war aims, in support of Japan's Article 9, to encourage
governments and global civil society to adopt similar peace
provisions in their own legislation and/or constitution and
to establish Demilitalization mechanisms to realize the concept
of article 9 at international, regional, national and local
levels. This includes drastic reduction of armament including
nuclear disarmament, military spending, armed forces, military
bases and military industry and the conversion of resources
into peaceful civilian use for sustainable development and
human security.
Presenter: Akira Kawasaki, Jasna Bastic and others (tbc)
Fissile materials (highly
enriched uranium - HEU - and plutonium) are essential for
all types of nuclear explosives, from first-generation fission
weapons to advanced thermonuclear weapons. International monitoring
of the production, use and disposition of both military and
civilian fissile materials is crucial to nuclear disarmament,
to halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to ensuring
that terrorists do not acquire them. This meeting will feature
presentations on current estimates for HEU and separated plutonium
stocks worldwide and the challenges facing a fissile material
cut-off treaty; a review of efforts to end the civilian use
of HEU fuel in nuclear reactors, and ways to speed this up;
and an analysis of technical and political constraints in
monitoring of clandestine production of fissile materials,
with focus on detecting atmospheric signatures from plutonium
production.
IFPM - International Panel on Fissile Materials (www.fissilematerials.org)
iGSE -dependent Group of Scientific Experts on the detection
of clandestine nuclear-weapons-usable materials production
(www.igse.net)
Chair: Regina Hagen (iGSE); presenters: Zia Mian (IPFM),
Ole Reistad (IPFM), and Petra Seibert (iGSE)
BALANCING THREE WITH SIX: MOVING
TOWARDS A STABLE EQUILIBRIUM—The British American
Security Information Council (BASIC) and the Verification
Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) seminar
on Thursday, 3 May will examine approaches to balanced implementation
of NPT Articles III and VI. The programme is:
- 13.15-13.20—Introductory remarks, Ambassador Johannes
Landman, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to
the Conference on Disarmament
- 13.20-13.45—‘Thinking inside the box: exploring
legal approaches to build confidence in Iran’s nuclear
programme’ Andreas Persbo, Nuclear Law and Policy
Researcher, VERTIC; and 'The use of voluntary transparency
measures to increase trust in states' nuclear programmes:
the case of Iran', James Acton, Science and Technology Researcher,
VERTIC
- 13.45-14.10—‘Beyond the 13 steps: looking
to a future without nuclear weapons’, Ian Davis, Co-Executive
Director, BASIC
- 14.10-14.45—Discussion
The
US-India Nuclear Deal and the Future of the NPT: A Role for
the Nuclear Suppliers Group?
The US-India nuclear deal, approved by the US congress and
President Bush in 2006, ends a thirty year ban on nuclear
trade with India. It does not require that India halt its
production of fissile materials (plutonium and highly enriched
uranium) for nuclear weapons. An analysis by the International
Panel on Fissile Materials shows that the deal will enable
to significantly increase its production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons, leading to a nuclear arms race in South
Asia (see the report at http://www.fissilematerials.org/southasia.pdf).
The US-India deal ignores United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1172 (6 June, 1998), which unanimously demanded
that India and Pakistan stop production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons. This demand was reaffirmed in the final
document of the 2000 NPT Review Conference, which said: "The
Conference also calls upon all State parties to refrain from
any action that may contravene or undermine the objectives
of the Treaty as well as of United Nations Security Council
resolution 1172 (1998)."
For the deal to come into force, it has to be accepted by
a consensus of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
The decision may be made this year.
This meeting will discuss the implications of the US-India
deal for the NPT and the possible role of NSG members in upholding
UN Security Council Resolution 1172 and the 2000 NPT Review
Conference decisions, and promoting an end to the production
of fissile materials for weapons in South Asia.
US
Nuclear Weapons Policy: A Death Plan for Humanity
While countries around the world are looking at ways
to strengthen the non-proliferation regime, current US Nuclear
Policy remains out of touch with the interests of its own
citizens as well those of its international allies. With last
year's passage of the US-India deal and the current debate
in Congress over the construction of a new generation of nuclear
weapons, US nuclear policy is moving even farther in the wrong
direction and dragging the rest of the world with it. This
panel will answer some of the very important questions about
US nuclear policy that will affect nuclear non-proliferation
and disarmament efforts internationally. What is US nuclear
weapons policy and where is it headed? What forces at work
are pushing the US in the wrong direction? What are the international
implications of US policy?
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