October 2020 Global Enterprise Meeting

The October 22 meeting of the Global Enterprise to Strengthen Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (GE) was the second in a series of virtual roundtables aimed at exploring concrete and actionable commitments states could take either prior to or at the postponed 2020 NPT Review Conference (RevCon). Participants engaged in a productive dialogue on a revised version of the discussion paper “Strengthening the NPT – Illustrative Actions for 2025” and the concept of Joint Voluntary Commitments (JVCs). Two new illustrative JVCs in the area of risk reduction – one on “Affirmation of Strategic Restraint” and another on “Reinvigorating Arms Control” – were circulated beforehand.