Tatiana Coutto Presents at UNIDIR Conference on Disarmament in Geneva

Professor Tatiana Coutto will participate in an International Conference on disarmament in the Middle East, which will take place in Geneva (Switzerland) on June 25. The event will be chaired by Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Theresa Hitchens, and will be titled "The Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction: Prospects and Challenges". Speakers will include practitioners and representatives of Israeli, Iranian, Egyptian, and German think tanks, as well as consultants in the field of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

Professor Coutto will join a panel entitled: "How to Facilitate a Middle East WMD-free Zone?" moderated by Pavel Podvig of the UNIDIR. She will speak about disarmament in Latin America as the first region in the world having been declared free of nuclear weapons in 1967, with a focus on the work of the Brazil-Argentina Agency for the Accountability and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC.)

More information on the conference