2 June/7 June: Launch of SIPRI Yearbook

Media Launch

The 2010 SIPRI Yearbook is launched electronically for media on 2 June. Read the press release in English, Swedish and French here. There will not be a formal press conference this year. Interested media are welcome to attend the seminar on 7 June (below).

Yearbook Issue Seminar

SIPRI has launched the 2010 SIPRI Yearbook to an audience of more than 90 representatives from the diplomatic community, academia and interested public at an expert roundtable seminar. The session has been TV recorded and will soon be available for download.

Panelists were

Dr Alexei Arbatov, 
Carnegie Moscow Centre, SIPRI Board member and Russia's leading thinker on arms control

Dr Barry M. Blechman, 
co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center focused on nuclear disarmament

Amb. Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board and former member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament

Åsa Gustafsson, Deputy Director of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Amb. Henrik Salander, Secretary-General of the Blix Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission 2003-2006 and Senior Advisor to SIPRI

SIPRI Director Dr Bates Gill  moderated the session.