Daisy Alliance Represented by Bruce Roth at UN Panel Events
Bruce A. Roth, founder of Daisy Alliance and author of No Time To Kill, attended a three day panel event hosted by Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament and the Middle Powers Initiative at the United Nations. The panels, “Advancing the UN Secretary General’s Five-Point Plan on Nuclear Disarmament,” “Defining Success at the NPT Review Conference,” and “Strengthening Space Security,” were held during the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security meetings in New York, NY, from October 12-14, 2009.
(Issues Wire / PRWEB) November 3, 2009 -- Bruce A. Roth, founder of Daisy Alliance and author of No Time To Kill, and Holly Lindamood, Program Director, attended a three day panel event hosted by Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Middle Powers Initiative (MP) at the United Nations during the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security meetings in New York, from October 12-14, 2009.
The first panel, “Advancing the UN Secretary General’s Five-Point Plan on Nuclear Disarmament” was chaired by Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute. Speakers included Uta Zapf MP, Chair of the German Parliament Sub-committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, Mikyung Lee MP, Secretary-General of the South Korean Democratic Party, Senator Tadashi Inuzuka, Member of Parliament representing Nagasaki, Japan, and Representative Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congress. The panel reported on initiatives to advance UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s agenda for a nuclear weapons free world.
Panel two, “Defining Success at the NPT Review Conference,” was chaired by Ambassador Henrik Salander, Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative. Speakers included Swiss Ambassador Jurg Streuli, Swiss Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, U.S. Ambassador Susan Burk, Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Mexico Ambassador Pablo Macedo, Director-General for United Nations, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The third panel, “Strengthening Space Security,” included presentations by Dr. John Steinbruner and Dr. Nancy Gallagher of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of their report “Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security.” Mr. Cesar Jaramillo also presented the 2009 edition of Space Security Index, a publication of Project Ploughshares. GSI Senior Officer Rhianna Tyson Kreger chaired the panel.
The United Nations General Assembly is a consensus-building body, where issues of international peace and security are collectively discussed among all UN member states. The General Assembly's work on disarmament is conducted through its First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.
The First Committee provides a forum for each state to discuss its positions on disarmament-related matters, and to work together to come up with compromises or to propose language to better understand and approach the issues. It offers the opportunity for states to build consensus on the issues, to reach common understandings and principles, and to agree on norms of behavior. Thus rather than ensuring “security” through the size of their arsenals, governments can discuss how to best arrive at cooperative security arrangements that minimize spending on weapons, reduce arms production, trade, and stockpiles, and increase global security. This consensus can subsequently be used in other disarmament fora, such as the Conference on Disarmament, where disarmament treaties are negotiated.
According to Roth, "These meetings are vital to the process of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) contains the only binding commitment to nuclear disarmament in a multilateral treaty. At the 2005 Treaty Review Conference, states parties could not agree on a final document, and the five week long conference was considered to be a failure. 2010 is the next chance to move forward."
ABOUT DAISY ALLIANCE—Daisy Alliance was founded by Bruce A. Roth in 2006 as a global grassroots peace organization which promotes the non-proliferation, disarmament, and elimination of nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons—all types of Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMDs. Daisy Alliance raises funds from the sale of its products: lapel pins and a book written by its founder, No Time To Kill, in order to educate the public in all walks of life about the threat that WMDs pose to civilization. No Time To Kill is a holistic guide to WMDs, terrorism, and genocide, written for the layperson. More than just discussing these problems, it presents a reasonable solution to make the planet safer—an approach never tried before. The Daisy Alliance lapel pin symbolizes the globe at its center and its petals represent people of the world. The inspiration for the name Daisy Alliance came from the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson presidential television campaign ad.
CONTACT:
Bruce A. Roth
Daisy Alliance
770-804-5578 (phone)
http://www.daisyalliance.org
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