Disarmament negotiations in critical times

by

Ambassador Leonardo Bencini

9 April 2025, 5:30 pm (CEST)

chair: Maurizio Bona 

(Former Advisor of the Director-General of CERN, and professor at University of Pavia (I))

virtual event - ZOOM only

please register at: https://tinyurl.com/disarm2025

The status of disarmament negotiations in the current international contest will be presented by the speaker, who already made a presentation at the Forum in November 2023. He will be available to interact with the participants after his talk. 

Some of the main topics treated in the presentation, and possibly discussed with the participants, are:

• has the risk of a nuclear weapon use increased recently, as a consequence of the deterioration of the international situation?
• how can we move out of the current impasse and the current situation?
• how can we escape the general trend of militarization also in science ?
• how to deal with increased dual-use classification in science?

Discussion will be under Chatham House rule: participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

Ambassador L. Bencini is the Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN Conference on Disarmament; he served as President of the Conference in the session January-February 2025. Previously, he has served in Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Oslo, Moscow, St. Petersburg and now Geneva. He has dealt with United Nations issues at various stages of his career - from human rights to peacekeeping and peacebuilding, from UN reform to sustainable development.

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