Overview
Workshop (2020)
An informal workshop on “Good Practices and Lessons Learnt with respect to Existing Nuclear-Weapons Free Zone” was held from 7-9 July 2020. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the workshop was conducted virtually. The workshop was organized in consultation with the President and participating States of first session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, as an effort to support the implementation of the outcome of the first session of the Conference which agreed to invite representatives of existing nuclear-weapon-free zones, as well as relevant academia and experts to share good practices and lessons learned in the establishment of such zones.
Details of the workshop can be found in the programme.
Documents
Opening Remarks by High Representative Nakamitsu
Presentations by Panelists
Theme 1: Adapting to the Regional Context
Presentation by Ambassador Gerardo Alberto Simón Yerres, Chairman of the OPANAL Council
Theme 2: The role of general obligations and provisions in the context of global disarmament and non-proliferation objectives
Presentation by Mr. Noel Stott, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre
Theme 3: How zones address transit, visitation and overflight; regulation of exclusive economic zones and the high seas
Theme 4: How zones address relations with external States, including security assurances
Presentation by Ambassador Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan, Blue Banner, Mongolia
Paper by Ambassador Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan, Blue Banner, Mongolia
Theme 5: How zones address arrangements for regional control and cooperation
Theme 6: How zones institutionalize arrangements for regional peace, disarmament and non-proliferation
Background
The participating States, observer States and relevant international organizations (IAEA, OPCW and BWC-ISU) of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction in accordance with the General Assembly decision 73/546 were invited to the informal virtual workshop. Representatives of existing nuclear-weapon-free zone organizations and some of their Member States were invited to speak on various proposed themes.
