The UN Role in the Chemical Weapons Issue in Syria: An Insider’s Perspective

Guest speaker: Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs to the UN Secretary‐General.

 

Introduced by Ghassan Salamé, Dean of PSIA-Sciences Po

 

This topic hits on one of the most challenging aspects of the situations the United Nations was confronted with: investigating allegations of use of weapons prohibited under international law and subsequently eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme during a civil war. No Government or international organization has ever attempted to undertake such an investigation or the verified elimination of an entire category of weapons during an armed conflict.

 

Ms. Angela Kane is High Representative for Disarmament Affairs to the UN Secretary‐General. She has a distinguished career in the United Nations where she has held various managerial functions. She served as Under‐Secretary‐General for Management from 2008‐2012. From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Kane served as Assistant Secretary‐General for Political Affairs. She also held the positions of Director in the Department of Political Affairs and Director in the Department of Public Information.

 

This conference, which is open to the public, is offered as part of the course taught by Julien Serre in the Master in International Security at PSIA: “Fragile States in a Globalized World”.

 

Registration:
– Students may register online
– Faculty members and external guests may register by email at: psia.events@sciencespo.fr