Led by Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, and Singapore, the first-ever #IAEA General Conference resolution on Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards in Ukraine was adopted with the support of 69 delegations.

#CHEMEXAfrica Facts: 🇩🇿 Event hosted in Algeria 🦺 80 Participants from 30+ African countries 🌍 South-South cooperation ensures long-term sustainability 🧑‍🏫 Train-the-trainer programme enables African instructors to train the next-generation of African #FirstResponders 🇨🇦 Funding

‘I feel hopeless': Living in a country on the brink bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

🇨🇦’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program is proud to support this outstanding work by RUSI to shine a light on weapons proliferators.

The latest edition of the #GPWMD Newsletter is out! See what we are doing to mitigate 🌍#CBRN threats and check out the feature article from BWC Implementation Support Unit UNODA Geneva on efforts to universalize the #BTWC in Africa in support of the GP #SIMBA. Check it out at👉 bit.ly/3PXFVcG

Thanks to 🇯🇵 for hosting this successful meeting in Nagasaki, where member countries and partners reaffirmed their shared commitment and developed new programming to mitigate WMD terrorism and proliferation threats.

In 1716, François de Callières wrote a short practical treatise on diplomacy. It became a core text for trainee diplomats for centuries. It was ahead of its time in many ways, arguing for a professional and merit-based diplomatic service Here are 10 pieces of advice on drafting:

A NEW MENTAL MODEL MEGATHREAD HAS ARRIVED! In 20 tweets I’ll summarize 20 key principles to understand the world. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Value: potentially a lifetime.

Get your certificate like the 2600+ people from 128 countries who have taken UN Office on Drugs & Crime‘s #eLearning module on #CBRN #terrorism. The one-hour course is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish @ unodc.org/icsant/en/web-… thanks to funding from 🇨🇦

Our program is thrilled to continue our partnership with @CRDFGlobal to disrupt the flow of illicit funds to North Korea’s WMD development.

ON THIS DAY the first international legal instrument against #nuclearterrorism #CPPNM entered into force. UN Office on Drugs & Crime promotes universalization and effective implementation of #CPPNM, #ACPPNM and #ICSANT thanks to funding of 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇦. #UNODC_CBRN

On Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness Day, #GPWMD’s 31 members reaffirm our commitment to delivering tangible #WMD threat reduction assistance. Progress and success are possible – we prove it with our partners every day.

New tunes 🎶 New tour 🚗 Same me 👩‍🦰 Heading to some of my favourite places this June! 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Tickets on sale this Friday at 10am local at bnds.us/g25k8f

📰 Hot off the presses, check out #GPWMD’s latest quarterly newsletter. Learn more about the impressive efforts of the GP’s 31 members to tackle #CBRN threats, including through an ambitious new Countering WMD #Disinformation initiative. Read here: bit.ly/3W16ylD

Learned a ton moderating today’s #ICONS2024 panel on how Chile, Dominican Republic, and Paraguay removed legacy radioactive material with support from IAEA NS and Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program. Helping make Latin America and the Caribbean safer, one source at a time!

Statement of the Participant Countries of the Ukraine Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Information Sharing Initiative. canada.ca/en/global-affa…

Thread of photographers who patiently waited to capture the shot of a lifetime 🧵 1. Leonardo Sens (3 years)

That’s a wrap on 2025’s first #GPWG in Ottawa 🇨🇦! It was a productive week of discussions across sub-working groups, including on WMD-relevant technology and assessing emerging threats.

A year ago I sent Jason Isbell my then freshly-recorded version of his song ‘Traveling Alone’. In all honesty, we didn’t really know one another very well, I had opened a handful of shows for him over the last few years and notionally I knew we were friendly, mostly exchanging

It’s safe to say that the world changed a lot in the last five years. It certainly did for me. After putting out Total Freedom in 2020 then accepting the fact that touring it and promoting it wasn’t going to happen, I went back to my coffee shop and worked, I got married, I moved