Event Date: January 11, 2011 - 2:00 pm
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 4004
A talk by Paul Meyer, former Ambassador of Canada for Disarmament.
Presented by CIPS
Free. Registration not required. In English.
In May 2010 the NPT’s Review Conference in New York concluded with the adoption of a substantive Final Document, the first time in a decade that the principal meeting of the NPT members had achieved such an agreement. What exactly was agreed at the Review Conference and what does it mean for the health of the global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime?
Paul Meyer retired in September 2010 from DFAIT after a 35 year career in Canada’s Foreign Service. He served as Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2003-2007) in which capacity he headed the Canadian Delegation to the 2005 NPT Review Conference and several NPT Preparatory Committee meetings.
For those interested in the primary documents of diplomacy, the text of the Final Document can be accessed here.
[audio:http://web20.uottawa.ca/academic/socialsciences/cepi-cips/Meyer_20110111.mp3]