The Global Zero Summit, February 2-4, 2010, brings together 200 international political, military, business, and faith leaders for strategy talks on the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons and for the launch of the next phase of our global campaign to build public and political support for this agenda. The Summit is currently taking place at the Le Grand InterContinental Hotel in Paris until Thursday February 4th.  The 2010 Paris Summit is proving to be a catalytic event in the lead-up to President Obama’s April summit on nuclear security and the May Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.

Participants

On the opening day of the Global Zero Summit, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, and Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim addressed the conference. George Shultz, who delivered the Summit’s keynote address, served as Secretary of State for President Ronald Reagan (1982-1989), and was instrumental in the famous Reykjavik Summit at which Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev broached the possibility of an agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Minister Carl Bildt previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden and as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia, among other leadership positions. Minister Celso Amorim has served as Brazil’s Ambassador to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the United Kingdom.

The second day of the Summit was opened by U.S. Under-Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Ellen Tauscher. Under-Secretary Tauscher served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 13 years, where she chaired the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and was a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Other Global Zero Summit participants include: His Highness the Aga Khan, Ambassador Marcos de Azambuja, Ambassador K. Shankar Bajpai, Mr. Lawrence Bender, Minister Hans Blix, Ambassador Richard Burt, Rev. Richard Cizik, Mr. Michael Douglas, Minister Gareth Evans, Prime Minster Yasuo Fukuda, Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Mian Khurshid Kasuri, Ambassador Shaharyar Khan, Dr. Konstantin Kosachev, Mr. Tony Lake, Ambassador Vladimir Lukin, Ambassador Ma Zhengang, Senator Mikhail Margelov, Col. Gen. (Ret.) Evgeny Petrovich Maslin, Her Majesty Queen Noor, Gen. (Ret.) Bernard Norlain, Lord David Owen, Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, President Mary Robinson, Prime Minister Michel Rocard, Ambassador Shri Shyam Saran, Gen. (Ret.) John “Jack” Sheehan, Min. Jaswant Singh, Ambassador Song Min-soon, Air Chief Marshal (Ret.) SP Tyagi, and President Ernesto Zedillo, among others.

 

Student Summit

Thirty student leaders from around the world were selected from 450 applicants to participate in the Global Zero Summit.  Students arrived in Paris the evening of January 30 and participated in a two-day student leader retreat before joining the full Global Zero Summit.  At the Summit, the students work alongside Global Zero leaders to chart a course for an international public campaign for Zero.

From GlobalZero

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