March and July 2017

SGI's Working Papers Submitted to the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Negotiations

By resolution 71/258, the General Assembly decided to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. These negotiations concluded on 7 July 2017 in New York, when 122 states voted for the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

  • Disarmament
  • Nuclear Abolition

To contribute to the negotiations, SGI submitted the following two working papers:

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