Eminent disarmament campaigner Alyn Ware, Founder and Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) attended the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12 in Vienna. INPS multimedia director and President of INPS Japan joined IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura at a meeting with Alyn Ware and invited him to a video interview.
IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met Ambassador Salah Abdel Shafi from the Mission of the State of Palestine to Austria & Slovenia and the Permanent Observer Mission to UN and International Organisations in Vienna met during the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12 in Vienna.
Discussions centred around:
The background to the State of Palestine becoming the 191st member-state of the NPT in the 2015 NPT Review Conference in New York,
50 years since Israel occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights;
100 years since the Balfour Declaration, issued by the British Empire in support of a Jewish state in historic Palestine; and
70 years since the UN Partition Plan allotting 56% of historic Palestine for a Jewish state, which triggered the Nakba (mass displacement of Palestinians from their lands).
Daryl Kimball, the Executive Director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association (ACA), was in Vienna in the second week of the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12. IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura discussed with him the status of negotiations on May 9 and invited him to a video interview which was recorded by the INPS multimedia director Katsuhiro Asagiri.
India’s Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines was a keynote speaker at the Vienna Energy Forum 2017 on May 11 at Hofburg Palace in the Austrian Capital.
IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met him briefly and invited him for a video interview, which was recorded by INPS multimedia director Katsuhiro Asagiri.
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Daryl Kimball, the Executive Director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association (ACA), was in Vienna in the second week of the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference from May 2-12. IDN-INPS DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura discussed with him the status of negotiations on May 9 and invited him to a video interview which was recorded by the INPS multimedia director Katsuhiro Asagiri.
Athletes participating at the Launch of the 4th International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
Tahl Leivovitz (left) and Kanak Jha, USA Table Tennis demonstrate their abilities in the UN Visitors Lobby