As of August 29, 2024, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is set to visit the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) for the fifth time (since September 2022) this week to assess the nuclear safety and security situation amid the intensifying conflict. In this context, we would like to recall and highlight the commentary (April 2024) of Dr. Vladimir Orlov, Founding Director of PIR Center, and Mr. Sergey Semenov, PIR Center Research Fellow, as well as the one (March 2024) written by Mr. Sviatoslav Arov, PIR Center Research Fellow — Executive Assistant to Director. [...]

PIR Center interviewed H.E. Ambassador Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan on the margins of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference (MNC). During the conversation, we discussed Mongolia’s role in the international nuclear nonproliferation regime and Mongolia’s path to becoming a state that has officially declared its territory free of nuclear weapons. [...]

Signed in 1995 and entering into force two years later, the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) is a treaty between the 10 Southeast Asian member-states of ASEAN. Parties to the treaty are obligated not to develop, manufacture, acquire, possess, or control nuclear weapons within the zone. The protocols of the treaty remain open for signature by the nuclear weapon states (NWS), which none have signed. Doing so would mean that the NWS would forgo the threat or use of nuclear weapons against any state party to the treaty. [...]

The Second Session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 11th Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference concluded in Geneva on August 2. It included the debates on the FMCT, the CTBT, the NWFZ, the provision of negative guarantees to non-nuclear-weapon states, the situation with ZNPP, and other topical issues. Alexandra Zubenko, an M.A. Candidate in the International Dual Degree M.A. Program “Global Security, Nuclear Policy, and WMD Nonproliferation” (MGIMO-MIIS-PIR Center), attended the Session. [...]