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Jayantha Dhanapala: An Outstanding Practitioner of Multilateralism at its Best—Part 2

Conventional & Autonomous Weapons, OPINION, UN INSIDER2024-06-052024-06-05 InDepthNews

By HMGS Palihakkara* Read Part 1: https://indepthnews.net/jayantha-dhanapala-an-outstanding-practitioner-of-multilateralism-at-its-best-part-1/ COLOMBO | 5 June 2024 (IDN) — On the challenge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is an animated ongoing discourse about the vistas of material advances AI promises as well as the dangers it can morph into. The human penchant to weaponise almost every technology they invent is […]

Jayantha Dhanapala: An Outstanding Practitioner of Multilateralism at its Best—Part 1

OPINION, UN INSIDER2024-06-042024-06-05 InDepthNews

By HMGS Palihakkara* COLOMBO | 4 June 2024 (IDN) — May 27 marked the first year since we lost that voice of reason and warmth—our dear friend and respected senior colleague, Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala. The person as well as the persona of JD, as we used to call him fondly, meant many things to most […]

Jayantha Dhanapala: A Leader for Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Weapons, OPINION, UN INSIDER2023-11-092023-11-10 InDepthNews

By Randy Rydell Remembering Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala, at the UN First Committee’s Side Event hosted on 7 November by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) at the United Nations. UNITED NATIONS | 9 November 2023 (IDN) — I am very pleased to have this opportunity to speak today and to meet once again […]

Tributes: Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala*

OPINION2023-05-28 InDepthNews

UNITED NATIONS, 28 May 2023 (IDN) — The sad demise of Sri Lanka’s veteran diplomat Dr Jayantha Dhanapala at the Kandy National Hospital, was announced on 27 May. Following are tributes by Nandasiri (Nandi) Jasentuliyana, former Deputy Director-General of the United Nations and Director UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOSA), and Ambassador A. L. […]

The NPT – From Promise to Reality

OPINION2021-03-27 InDepthNews

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is Ambassador, former High Representative of the United Nations for Disarmament Affairs and current President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs NEW YORK (IDN) — “How can we—the non-nuclear-weapon States—be expected to enter into an interminable obligation to remain non-nuclear if the nuclear-weapon States are engaged in […]

Eminent Persons Warn Against Any Demonstration Nuclear Test Explosion

CTBTO2020-05-30 InDepthNews

By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – Members of the CTBTO Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) have expressed “deep concern about credible press reports” that senior U.S. officials have discussed the possibility of conducting “a demonstration nuclear test explosion”. They warn that if carried out, it would break the global moratorium on nuclear weapon test explosions […]

25 Years After the Indefinite Extension of The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: A Field of Broken Promises and Shattered Visions

OPINION2020-05-11 InDepthNews

By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA (IDN) – “I long ago took to heart the words of Omar Bradley, spoken virtually a half century ago, when he observed, having seen the aftermath of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus: ‘We live in an age of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We live in a world that […]

An Unexpected Chance for the Success of Postponed NPT Review Conference

OPINION2020-04-12 InDepthNews

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and current President of Pugwash. NEW YORK (IDN) – It took patience from the President-designate of the 2020 NPT Review Conference, a sober assessment of the situation by a number of states, particularly from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and help from […]

Challenge for the NAM: Move the NPT Review Conference to 2021 in Vienna

OPINION2020-03-30 InDepthNews

Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf* VIENNA (IDN) – It is sometimes said that it is easy to try to herd cats than to get the States parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to agree on anything practical! This certainly seems to be the case now, as after dithering for several weeks the earth shaking announcement […]

Sri Lanka Committed to Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Asia-Pacific2020-01-31 InDepthNews

By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA | COLOMBO (IDN) – In an exceptional move, Germany has granted funds to Sri Lanka’s Forum on Disarmament and Development (FDD) for the translation of the texts of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty (CTBT) to the island state’s official languages Sinhala and […]