The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday September 2nd, 2022
Dark Clouds and Little Light at the Nuclear-Weapon Non-Proliferation Meetings by Rene Wadlow
After late night negotiations, the every-five-year Review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (The NPT Review) failed to reach a consensus on a final statement this past Friday. The terms of the Review require a consensus and not a majority-minority vote. This is not the first time that a NPT Review has failed to reach a consensus on a final document, but the failure is an indication of strong tensions among nuclear-weapon states – in particular over the Russian Federation armed conflict in Ukraine.
151 States participated in the Review held at the United Nations in New York; however the Review is not a U.N. conference, thus the consensus rules of procedure. There were 160 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accredited to participate in the Review. I had chaired the NGO representatives at the first Review in 1975 held in Geneva, and also chaired the NGOs at the 1980 Review. We were fewer then. However getting consensus among NGOs is nearly as difficult as among States. The impact of NGOs depends to a large part on preparation before the Review and follows up after.
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Goldfish #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“we search for aliens
out there
a million miles
away”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #40 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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