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NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: HANS BLIX IN ROME NEXT THURSDAY

On the eve of the presentation of the Obama Plan for the reduction of nuclear weapons, the US-Russian summit and the international Conferences of Washington and New York, which in coming months will place the reduction of nuclear arsenals at the centre of international politics Hans Blix, former AIEA Director general and Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, will be in Rome on Thursday, 25 March.

Hans Blix will be attending the Conference: “DOES SECURITY REQUIRE NUCLEAR WEAPONS?”, which will be held in the lower house of Italy’s Parliament (Chamber of Deputies, sala del Mappamondo, 3 p.m.), promoted by the Permanent Secretariat of the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit, chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev and Walter Veltroni, and by Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.

Speakers at the Conference, chaired by the Hon. Federica Mogherini, of the Defence Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and member of the International Council of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and (PNND), will include the Hon. Giorgio La Malfa and the Hon. Arturo Parisi, signatories of the appeal for a world without nuclear weapons, Ambassador Carlo Trezza, Chairman of the UN Advisory Committee for Disarmament Affairs, Flavio Lotti, Coordinator of the “Tavola della pace”, Lisa Clark, Mayors for Peace, and Prof. Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Secretary General of Pugwash, Nobel Peace Prize Organisation.

Hans Blix, Swedish Foreign Secretary from 1978 to 1979 and former AIEA Director general, chaired the Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) from January 2000 to June 2003, and on 27 November 2002 was named head of inspectors sent to Iraq as part of UN Resolution 1441 measures to search for weapons of mass destruction believed to be held by that country. He is currently one of the leading voices and advisors on the subject of nuclear weapon reduction policies and on the use of nuclear energy in Middle East countries.

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