UN High Level Meeting on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

The UN General Assembly will hold a High Level Meeting on Oct 2 to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Speakers will be mostly high-level government representatives, Prime Ministers, Presidents, Foreign Ministers and UN Ambassadors. However, the President of the UN General Assembly has also invited two representatives of global civil society to address the meeting. They are Saber Chowdhury MP, PNND Co-President and Honorary President of the Inter-Parliamentar Union, and Vanda Proskova (Czech Republic), Vice-Chair of the PragueVision Institute for Sustainable Security. Ms Proskova was also one of the moderators of A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, for the global civil society event on Sep 26 commemorating the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

The event can be watched on UNTV.