EWI Vice President W. Pal Sidhu participated in an international effort to reduce nuclear arsenals around the world.

Sidhu, who leads EWI’s work on weapons of mass destruction, attended For Peace and Development: Disarm Now, a three-day U.N. conference in Mexico City to lay the groundwork for the 2010 NPT Review Conference. Sidhu joined U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and others who urged world leaders to implement Mr. Ban’s five-point plan for disarmament. Mr. Ban first presented the plan at EWI’s international consultation on weapons of mass destruction on October 24, 2008.

According to a U.N. press release, Sidhu stressed that the process would not be easy, given fundamental differences of opinion between the global West or North, represented mainly by NATO, and the East or South, comprising Iran, China, India, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Israel. Without common consensus, he suggested, little progress would be made.

Sidhu’s comments from the conference were covered in InDepthNews, a news service that provides in-depth news and information services to newspapers, websites and online readers around the globe.

• Click here to read the U.N. press release covering Sidhu’s panel
• Click here to read the article in InDepthNews.
• Click here to read more about EWI’s original conference on WMD on October 24, 2008.