Perspectives on disarmament and continued relevance of the recommendations of the Blix Commission

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden in collaboration with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) organized a High-Level Panel discussion with Ms Margot Wallström, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden; Dr Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), IAEA Director General Emeritus, and former Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring and Verification Commission in Iraq (UNMOVIC), Ambassador Henrik Salander, Secretary-General of the WMDC, former Ambassador for Disarmament of Sweden; and Dr Irma Arguello, Founder and Chair of the Non-Proliferation for Global Security Foundation, Head of the Secretariat for the Latin American and Caribbean Leadership Network for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. UN Under-Secretary General Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, provided brief comments. Ambassador Olof Skoog, Sweden’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, introduced the High-Level Panel to the audience of some 200 delegates. The moderator for the High-Level Panel was Tariq Rauf, Director of SIPRI’s Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme.

In our feature box below, please find the full event report by SIPRI's Tariq Rauf and key presentations from the event.