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This book, to be published and officially handed today by the current Chair of the FSC to the OSCE Chairmanship, is also being symbolically presented to the United Nations, in the presence of Ambassador Kuniko Inoguchi of Japan. Last July, Dr Inoguchi chaired the first UN Biennial Meeting on the implementation of the UN's own small arms Programme of Action. ...

With the backing of the Organization's Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) and assistance from its Conflict Prevention Centre, a group of 12 OSCE participating States (Canada, Germany, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States) has developed a Handbook of Best Practice Guides on SALW control issues. Eight practical guides aimed at governments, parliaments, non-governmental organizations and international organizations, will help in reviewing legislative proposals or formulating new programmes to reduce the availability of small arms. ... [Read More]

"It's Academic" Special Edition

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U.S. Statement at the Meeting of the Standing Committee Meeting on Mine Clearance, Mine Risk, Education, and Mine Action Technologies

The U.S. has always been, and will remain a strong supporter of Humanitarian Mine Action. We share common causes with all of those who wish to reduce the harm inflicted by landmines. This year alone, our country will -- including special supplementary funds for Iraq and Afghanistan -- provide nearly $200 million to support Humanitarian Mine Action. In 2005, resources available to the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement within the State Department will total $70 million. In making decisions on how to allocate these resources, we expect potential recipients to propose sound national strategies for investments, not charity. Strategies should include clearly articulated visions and precise, measurable objective. To this end, we feel that the format that has been prepared for “Communicating Elements of Plans to Implement Article 5” is exactly the type of practical, focused measure that can form the basis for future cooperation. ... [Read More]

IEW > Events

IEW began with a "Tower of Babel" conference of secondary school and university instructors of foreign languages, with the support of the Smolny Institute and Bard College. The conference became a forum for the exchange of practical teaching approaches that could be applied across languages. Key moderators during the conference were alumni of the Teachers' Excellence Awards (TEA) and Junior Faculty Development (JFDP) Program. The St. Petersburg office of American Councils organized the conference for International Education in cooperation with the American Center and with the support of Smolny Institute. The Center for American and British Studies at St. Petersburg State University hosted a roundtable discussion on Russian and American literature of the 20th century; Russian and American students and faculty in the philology depar ... [Read More]

The Zangger Committee

The purpose of the 35-nation Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Exporters (Zangger) Committee is to harmonize implementation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s requirement to apply International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards to nuclear exports. Article III.2 of the Treaty requires parties to ensure that IAEA safeguards are applied to exports to non-nuclear weapon states of (a) source or special fissionable material, or (b) equipment or material especially designed or prepared for the processing, use or production of special fissionable material. The Zangger Committee maintains and updates a list of equipment and materials that may only be exported if safeguards are applied to the recipient facility (called the "Trigger List" because such exports trigger the requirement for safeguards). ... [Read More]

Ambassadors to Europe and Eurasia
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US Department Of State Post Report

UNVIE provides permanent U.S. representation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN Office on Drugs & Crime, the Wassenaar Arrangement, and a number of other UN organs with headquarters in Vienna. UNVIE also represents the U.S. before the Preparatory Commission and Provisional Secretariat of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). The United States only supports activities related to building the International Monitoring System of the CTBTO, not the Treaty itself.  UNVIE promotes U.S. global interests on a number of fronts including: prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation; combating international terrorism; fighting the production and abuse of illicit narcotics, curbing international organized crime, corruption, and human trafficking; and controlling transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use technologies. In support of these policies, UNVIE supports over 1000 official visitors each year — from Cabinet officers and large ... [Read More]

American Citizens Services

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The 2004 Congressional Elections: Likely Outcome, Consequences for Governing

On the other hand, if there's a crisis of legitimacy because, say, two elections in a row the winner of the popular vote failed to enter the White House, then I could imagine a movement developing that would have a chance of overcoming the substantial political obstacles. This really is a remnant of a time when it, the electoral college, was imagined as a very, very different institution. The framers certainly didn't have in mind the way in which it's now being applied in an era of popular election, and it is really very said that 60 percent of the potential electorate is not engaged in the campaign because they're irrelevant to it because of the nature of the electoral college. So I hope it changes, but as true of much political reform, it takes a crisis for it to happen. ... [Read More]