UN Fellows

I presented to a group of younger diplomats from around the world yesterday at the UN, a fascinating experience. They all work in disarmament ministries (or the equivalent) and are smart, committed, well-informed and articulate. I asked at one point for views on the NPT and it was intriguing and enormously useful to be able to hear opinions from Slovenia, Switzerland, Russia, Egypt, Myanmar, Hungary, Nepal, Bangladesh, Poland, Iran, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, China, Korea, and several others all around one table. The variations and subtleties of emphasis were instructive and useful.

I was welcomed and there was a lively debate and I learned things, and that is always what I like best.

I hope that they can fulfill their promise, because their promise, it seems to me, is great.