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Ukraine diplomacy, the nuclear testing taboo, Canada and Saudi arms exports and more
September 3, 2023
Modest but important steps in the direction of diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine; strengthening the nuclear testing taboo, and disturbing new reasons why Canada should end its arms exports to Saudi Arabia are some of our topics in this week’s blog post.
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Join in global efforts to abolish nuclear weapons
September 19, 2016
Rideau Institute President Peggy Mason was honoured to speak at the international conference Building a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World in Astana, Kazakhstan on August 30th. She began her remarks, entitled, A-Canadian-Defence-Policy-that-moves-towards-Security-without-Nuclear-Weapons-or-War with: Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev in his Manifesto of the World for the 21st Century set out a visionary, yet clear and practical programme for achieving security […]
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Canada spurns UN nuclear disarmament plan
August 26, 2016
In an article which first appeared in Wednesday’s Hill Times, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Doug Roche delivered a stinging rebuke to the Liberal government for its recent actions in the Geneva Conference on Disarmament. See Canada Turns Back on UN Nuclear Disarmament Plan (Douglas Roche, 24 August 2016). The focus of his concern was the […]
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