The Middle Powers Initiative builds bridges between nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear States in order to facilitate nuclear disarmament.
MPI organises track-two forums amongst key governments to discuss practical measures to eliminate the role of nuclear weapons in security doctrines and to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world.
Chair’s Blog
Insecurity Shadows the Iran Deal
Tuesday 17 October 2017. The US president has spoken. In a hostile statement reminiscent of George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech president Trump has refused to certify the Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA. The [...]
CREATING NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY FOR NORTH KOREA: Lessons Learned from the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
A paper to the “International conference on nuclear disarmament issues: global and regional aspects”, 31 August to 1 September, 2017 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. CREATING NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY FOR NORTH KOREA: Lessons Learned from the Iran Nuclear [...]
NEW NUCLEAR DIVIDES
NEW NUCLEAR DIVIDES By Tarja Cronberg On July 7th, 2017 122 nations agreed to prohibit nuclear weapons. It took 72 years after their first- and only- use. In her deeply moving closing statement, Setsuko Thurlow, [...]
MPI News
Tarja Cronberg and Sico van der Meer joint publication on Towards A Successful Non-Proliferation Treaty 2020 Conference
One of the most successful international treaties, the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is under pressure. Tensions between groups of member states led to the failure of its Review Conference in 2015. Without efforts to ease these [...]
Douglas Roche: What the UN’s next secretary general must do to succeed, and how Canada can help
The United Nations’ new secretary general, Antonio Guterres, who will take office Jan. 1, has pinpointed his top goal: “a surge in diplomacy for peace.” With the crucible of Aleppo revealing ruptures in the international [...]
Hon. Tarja Cronberg to Lead MPI
The Middle Powers Initiative (MPI) is extremely pleased to announce Hon. Tarja Cronberg as its new Chair, effective immediately. Dr. Cronberg has held numerous senior positions in the Finnish government and the European Parliament, where [...]
Calendar
- 27–31 March 2017 | New YorkFirst session of UN negotiations for a nuclear prohibition treaty
- 2–12 May 2017 | Vienna, Austria
First Preparatory Meeting for the 2010 NPT Review Conference - 19 June – 7 July 2017 | New York
- 2 October-2 November 2017 | New York