Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – The nuclear weapon missile business is contradictory, full of missteps, highly dangerous and prepared in its madness (Mutually Assured Destruction, aka MAD, they used to call it in Cold War days) to plunge the world into a nuclear war that will reduce most of the world to […]
Trump’s Damning Move Raises the Stakes Over Jerusalem
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Poets as diverse as William Blake and Yehuda Amichai have sung the praises of the heavenly Jerusalem, a land without strife or rancour, war or bitterness, envy, acquisitiveness or hatred. Until last week and President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s de facto capital, Israel, Fatah, […]
Miles To Go Before Corruption Is Rooted Out
Viewpoint by Drago Kos Drago Kos chairs the OECD Working Group on Bribery. The following is his statement on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Working with over 100 countries, the OECD is a global policy forum that intends promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people […]
No More Bluster, A Way Out of North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – When, soon after the election, President Barack Obama invited Donald Trump to the White House we didn’t learn much about their conversation. But we were briefed on one thing: Obama had told Trump that North Korea would be the most pressing and difficult issue on his agenda. […]
Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Miscalculation
By Daryl G. Kimball Daryl G. Kimball is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. This article first appeared with the caption ‘Step Back From the Nuclear Brink’. WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – Over the past year, cavalier and reckless statements from President Donald Trump about nuclear weapons and his threat to unleash “fire and fury” […]
China and UNIDO Have Engaged in Substantial Cooperation
By WANG Shouwen WANG Shouwen is China’s Vice-Minister of Commerce. Following are extensive excerpts from his address at the 17th session of the UNIDO General Conference ‘Partnering for Impact: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’ in Vienna on November 27, 2017 – after Li Yong was re-appointed for a second term (2017-2021) as the Director General […]
Progress Toward Nuclear Weapons Abolition
Viewpoint by David Krieger* SANTA BARBARA | USA (IDN-INPS) – The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has been working to end the nuclear weapons threat to humanity and all life for 35 years. We were one of many nuclear disarmament organizations created in the early 1980s, in our case in 1982. Some of these organizations have endured; […]
Mladic Verdict After 22 Years Cries for Shake-up of the UN Court
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Timing is everything. Dear Reader you’re right. If I was going to write on the conviction in a UN court of General Ratko Mladic I should have done it last week when the court sentenced him to life imprisonment for the mass murder of a significant part […]
In Sri Lanka, Development Begins with Reconciliation
By Prasad Kariyawasam Prasad Kariyawasam is Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary. Following are extensive excerpts from his address to the UN’s Peacebuilding Commission at the UN Headquarters in New York on November 20, 2017. – The Editor UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Sri Lanka is known, perhaps mostly, as the place where Ceylon Tea originates from, or […]
Industrial Development is About a Decent Life for All People
By Miroslav Lajčák, President of the UN General Assembly Following are extensive extracts from the remarks of Miroslav Lajčák, President of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, at the 17th session of the UNIDO General Conference ‘Partnering for Impact: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’ in Vienna on November 27, 2017. Li Yong was […]