The biannual plenary meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism is being convened this week in Tokyo, Japan, where partner nations will review progress and share recommendations on the group’s short-term activities.
The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), co-chaired by the United States and Russia, is a partnership of over 80 countries and five organizations working to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to acts of nuclear terrorism.
The State Department said Wednesday that C.S. Eliot Kang, acting assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation, will attend the meeting on June 1-2.
The plenary meeting will include a review of progress made by the partnership’s working groups on nuclear forensics, nuclear detection, and response and mitigation. Nations in attendance will also discuss the partnership’s activities for 2017-2019, the State Department said.
A GICNT action plan released at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C. called for more information sharing on multilateral activities and a greater number of capacity building workshops for partner nations.
