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The following titles are available for download as PDFs.
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MPI Briefing Paper
November 2011
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Final report of the Geneva Consultation
Geneva, Switzerland
September 14-15, 2010
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Briefing Paper for the Middle Powers Initiative/Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Conference, From Aspiration to Reality: Nuclear Disarmament after the NPT Review
Geneva, Switzerland
September 14-15, 2010
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Briefing paper for the Atlanta Consultation III: Fulfilling the NPT, January 21-22, 2010
From President Barack Obama’s Prague speech to the UN Security Council Summit, 2009 was an extraordinary year of commitments at the highest levels to the objective of a world free of nuclear weapons. This year, 2010, must be the year for action, for setting in motion irreversible processes to achieve that objective. Middle powers must capitalize on the mo-mentum at this spring’s pivotal Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference.
This MPI Briefing Paper is intended to inform the January 2010 Consultation in Atlanta sponsored by MPI and the Carter Center in anticipation of the Review Conference. In this paper, MPI offers several practical and substantive recommendations.
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Briefing paper, October 2009
In both national and international deliberations, there are now a series of extraordinary openings to advance the nuclear disarmament agenda. This paper lays out MPI’s analysis of these events and recommends a number of practical and effective steps middle power governments can take to help continue to build the momentum for a nuclear weapon-free world.
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Briefing paper for the Sixth Meeting of the Article VI Forum
Berlin, Germany
January 29-30, 2009
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Briefing Paper for the Fifth Meeting of the Article VI Forum
Dublin, Ireland
March 26-28, 2008
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MPI Paper for the 2007 Preparatory Committee, Vienna, April 2007
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Briefing Paper
A Middle Powers Initiative Briefing Paper
June 2006
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The Middle Powers Initiative was honored to inaugurate the "Article VI Forum" at the United Nations on October 3, 2005. The Forum will continue its work of advancing the imperative to uphold the core bargain of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty relating to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and ensuring steady progress toward their global elimination.
United Nations, New York
October 3, 2005
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A Political Analysis of the Seventh
Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
New York, May 2-27, 2005
By Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C.
June 2005
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Briefing Paper for "Atlanta Consultation II: On the Future of the NPT"
A Middle Powers Initiative Briefing Paper
January 2005
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A Political Analysis of the Third Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
By Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C.
May 2004
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By Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C.
Chairman, Middle Powers Initiative
Geneva, April 28-May 9, 2003
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by Robert Green
1998
The Middle Powers Initiative is a network of international citizen organizations working to encourage the nuclear weapon states and their influential allies to move rapidly to eliminate nuclear weapons via practical steps including a Nuclear Weapons Convention. The New Agenda Coalition is a group of middle-ranking nations whose governments have also called for the early elimination of nuclear weapons via similar steps. The work of MPI and NAC at the United Nations and elsewhere is described, and their impact on NATO nuclear weapons policy discussed.
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