By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – Ambassadors from Central Asia and UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Tadamichi Yamamoto met at Kazakhstan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations on December 14, two weeks ahead of the Central Asian state’s non-permanent membership of the […]
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Disarmament Emphasize Need to Combat Climate Change
By Aleksandra Gadzinski KATOWICE (IDN) – Nuclear weapons and climate change are the two major existential threats to the survival of humanity, civilization and the planet Earth. With this in view, in January 2018 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the legendary Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes to Midnight, due to […]
Sri Lanka’s Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part 4
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. The following is Part 3 of the text of his keynote address delivered at Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya, Kandy, on 26 November 2018. – Click here for Part 1, Part 2 […]
Sri Lanka’s Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part 3
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. The following is Part 3 of the text of his keynote address delivered at Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya, Kandy, on 26 November 2018. – Click here for Part 1 and Part […]
Sri Lanka’s Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part 2
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. The following is Part 2 of the text of his keynote address delivered at Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya, Kandy, on 26 November 2018. – Click here for Part 1. COLOMBO (IDN-INPS) […]
Sri Lanka’s Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part 1
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. The following is Part 1 of the text of his keynote address delivered at Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya, Kandy, on 26 November 2018. COLOMBO (IDN-INPS) – We look back on a […]
U.S. INF Treaty Termination May Once Again Trigger Nuclear Arms Race
By Daryl G. Kimball and Kingston A. Reif The following is the text of the analysis in Issue Brief (Volume 10, Issue 10, December 4, 2018) by the Arms Control Association (ACA). Daryl G. Kimball, is the executive director and Kingston A. Reif the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy of ACA. – The […]
The Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons Violates the Right to Life, Warns a UN Committee
By Alyn Ware The author is Coordinator of the World Future Council Peace and Disarmament Program, Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, and International Representative of Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace (the New Zealand affiliate of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms). GENEVA (IDN) – The threat or use of nuclear […]
Experts Push for Trump-Putin Accord on Nuclear Forces Treaty
By J C Suresh TORONTO (IDN) – In the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to “terminate” the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty “in response to Russian violations of the agreement”, an international group consisting of high-level experts and former officials is warning of the dangers of the collapse of the treaty and urging […]
Finland Eyes Nuclear Power to Hit Climate Targets
By Jeffrey Donovan The author is Press and Public Information Officer of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), based in Vienna. This article first appeared on the IAEA website on November 16, 2018. VIENNA (IDN-INPS) – Along the pine-lined shores of Finland’s bucolic western coast, a clean energy vision of the Nordic country’s future is quietly […]