U.S. First Committee Cyber Security Statement
The United States favors international engagement to develop a consensus on appropriate cyberspace behavior, based on existing principles of international law …
Read moreUN First Committee Conventional Weapons Statement
The United States is steadfast in its commitment to achieve a strong ATT that will respond to the adverse impacts of the illicit international arms trade on global peace and stability.
Read moreAmbassador Kennedy: Statement at August 14, 2012 Plenary of the Conference on Disarmament
We will continue to support an Arms Trade Treaty because we believe it will make a valuable contribution to global security by helping to stem illicit arms transfers.
Read moreAmbassador Laura Kennedy statement on Negative Security Assurances
We believe that the most appropriate way of implementing legally-binding negative security assurances is through adherence to the relevant protocols to established nuclear weapon free zone treaties.
Read moreInternational Diplomats Visit U.S. National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick
Following up on the the Bio-Transparency and Openness Initiative announced by Secretary Clinton at the December 2011 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference, the U.S. hosted a visit July 24 to its National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Ft. Detrick.
Read moreAmbassador Kennedy’s Statement on Stability in Space
The United States welcomes the progress made by the GGE at its first session last week in New York. The indicative program of work adopted by the GGE provides a solid framework for Experts to conduct a comprehensive review of the role of bilateral and multilateral mechanisms to strengthen stability in space.
Read moreThe U.S. is prepared to engage in substantive discussions on space security
The U.S. is prepared to engage in substantive discussions on space security and is willing to consider space arms control proposals and concepts that are equitable, effectively verifiable, and enhance the national security of the United States, partners, and allies.
Read moreAmbassador Kennedy: the international community is ready to negotiate a FMCT now
“The conclusion of a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) remains a vital and necessary step for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. An FMCT is essential if we are to work toward a world without nuclear weapons, as President Obama highlighted in his 2009 Prague speech.”
Read moreThe U.S. practices what it preaches on nuclear disarmament
The U.S. has been reducing our inventory of nuclear weapons for more than four decades. By September 2009, the U.S. nuclear stockpile has been reduced by 84% to approximately 5,000 nuclear warheads from its peak of approximately 31,000 nuclear warheads in 1967.
Read moreStatement of Ambassador Kennedy to the Conference on Disarmament
“Our governments did not send us here to endlessly discuss procedure and negotiate phantom programs of work, they, or certainly my government, sent us here to negotiate substance, beginning with this next step for nuclear disarmament.”
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