Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Alicia Sanders-Zakre will be tweeting and blogging throughout the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Talks at the United Nations. Follow her real-time updates at twitter.com/azakre.Second Negotiating Session: June 15-July 7, 2017UN Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear WeaponsJuly 7, 2017Today by a vote of 122-1 with 1 abstention, states adopted a historic treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons at the United Nations in New York. The Netherlands voted against the treaty and Singapore abstained.Before adopting the treaty, Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez declared that “after many decades, we have managed to sow the…