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Alix Renaudin

@alixrnd.bsky.social
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⚖️ Lawyer in Public International Law 🗣️ IHL, WMD Disarmament & Non-Proliferation ☢️ ☣️, Use of force, Polar & Western Balkans issues 🇺🇳 Former UN Legal Affairs, UN Disarmament Affairs, CTBTO, VERTIC Views=my own/RT≠endorsement | Posts in 🇬🇧,🇫🇷,🇳🇴 | he/him

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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Den norske regjeringen kunngjorde undertegningen av en «omfattende forsvarsavtale» med Frankrike med to samarbeidsnivåer: - En gjensidig forsvarspakt, ledsaget av militære samarbeidsaktiviteter (øvelser, koordinering, utstyrsforberedelse) www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/n...
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Norge og Frankrike inngår gjensidig forsvarsavtale
Norge og Frankrike har i dag inngått en bred forsvarsavtale hvor landene forplikter seg til å stille opp for hverandre dersom det blir behov for det. Sammen med ni andre europeiske land vil Norge også...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Norwegian government announced the signature of a “comprehensive defense agreement” with France with two levels of cooperation: - A mutual defense pact, accompanied with military cooperation activities (exercises, coordination, equipment preposition) www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/n...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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How to salvage the NPT Review Conference
A divided review conference is a likely outcome in New York. But there may be a narrow path to consensus if parties come ready to make difficult compromises on non-proliferation.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🦠Packed room for day 1 of the 7th Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva 🇺🇳. Encouraging participation and momentum as discussions get underway. #1972BWC @vertic.bsky.social
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"C'était donc cela, la peine de mort : ce sacrifice judiciaire dans les ténèbres de l'ignorance" R. Badinter, L'abolition.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Insightful days at @ungeneva.bsky.social 🇺🇳 with the @vertic.bsky.social delegation for the 6th session of the #1972BWC Working Group with two successful side events! Many thanks to all speakers and attendees!
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Norway in Geneva @norwayingeneva.norway.no · 21/08/2025
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) mtg this week: 🔸Norms against biological weapons must be upheld 🔸Strong & effective national implementation of BWC is vital in light of today’s rapid development in Life Sciences and Biotech. Norway proud supporter of @vertic_org #1972BWC
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
📣 Join us Today in Geneva for a side event on the margins of the #1972BWC WG on Enhancing National Implementation of the BWC Explore @vertic.bsky.social projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database 📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
📣 Join us this Wednesday in Geneva for a side event on the margins of the #1972BWC Working Group on Enhancing National Implementation of the BWC Explore VERTIC projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database 📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII 🇺🇳
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VERTIC @vertic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🔔 Upcoming Events! Join us next week at VERTIC's two side events on the margins of the 6th meeting of the BWC WG. The events will focus on enhancing national implementation of the BWC and assessing BWC compliance and monitoring, respectively. The side-events will take place on 20 August at 13:15.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
⚖️ Important recent decisions from the 🇫🇷 @courdecassation.fr on functional immunities of State officials. The Court ruled that it exists exceptions to functional immunities for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in cases against former Syrian officials.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The French 🇫🇷 National Strategic Review 2025 was published a few days ago and includes some references to WMD proliferation (Chemical, Biological, Nuclear). Short thread 🧶
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
La Revue Nationale Stratégique 2025 est sortie il y a quelques jours. Quelques références à la prolifération d'armes de destruction massive (Chimique, Biologique & Nucléaire). Petit thread 🧶
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🗞️ The latest edition of Trust&Verify is out! 🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc. ⤵️
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🎂 Today marks the 100th anniversary of the #1925GenevaProtocol, one of the earliest global norm to ban the use of asphyxiating gases and biological weapons in war. 100 years later, it is still a critical instrument to address the proliferation and use of Biological and Chemical weapons ⤵️
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Disclose @disclose.ngo · 27/05/2025
🔴 Days before a parliamentary inquiry presents its report on the nuclear tests in French Polynesia, documents obtained by @disclosengo.bsky.social and seen by @lemonde.fr and @theguardian.com suggest the CEA ran a concerted campaign to discredit the revelations👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Fate Unknown: The Pandemic Agreement's Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing | Think Global Health www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/fate...
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Fate Unknown: The Pandemic Agreement's Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing | Think Global Health
Seven issues exemplify the complex choices that member state negotiators still face
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 20/05/2025
It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly! My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer. What a moment in global health history. Together!
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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A l’ONU, le travail de sape des fausses ONG chinoises
« China Targets » (3/3). « Le Monde », en collaboration avec le consortium de journalistes ICIJ, a enquêté durant plusieurs mois sur la répression chinoise orchestrée depuis Pékin sur les opposants au...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🗞️ Discover our paper: “N5: Possible Steps to Consolidate the Non-Testing Norm & Facilitate CTBT Entry Into Force” Proposing actions for the N5 to build trust, strengthen monitoring, and support CTBT entry into force. #CTBT #NuclearDisarmament #NonProliferation youthgroup.ctbto.org/system/files...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Why Norway is restoring its Cold War military bunkers
Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases. Tensions with Russia have brought the bunkers back into focus
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The Arctic Institute @arcticinstitute.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 Join next week’s event on #France's 🇫🇷 Strategic Role in #NATO's #Arctic Ambitions ❄️ 🗓️ Thursday March 27th, 2025 ⏱️ 6:00 AM AK | 10:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM CET 🎙️ Speaker Alix Renaudin will join moderator & TAI’s Victoria Herrmann 🔗 More info: www.thearcticinstitute.org/event/france...
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France's Strategic Role in NATO's Arctic Ambitions
This event by The Arctic Institute on 27 March 2025 will explore the evolution of France’s interests in the Arctic, including NATO's role.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/03/2025
NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines due to the military threat from their neighbor Russia, the four countries said reut.rs/41yCxL9
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Poland and Baltic nations plan to pull out from landmines convention
NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines due to the military threat from their neighbour Russia, the four countries said on Tuesday.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"De 1954 à 1959, la France coloniale n’a pas hésité à gazer, notamment dans les zones montagneuses difficiles d’accès, des populations sans défense" www.liberation.fr/internationa...
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Guerre d’Algérie : France Télévisions déprogramme un documentaire sur l’usage des armes chimiques par l’armée française
Dans un contexte diplomatique tendu et alors que les débats sur les crimes coloniaux font rage, un documentaire inédit révélant l’utilisation d’armes chimiques par la France en Algérie a été retiré de...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Anti-personnel mines: the false promise of security through exceptionalism in war blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
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Anti-personnel mines: the false promise of security through exceptionalism in war
Efforts to abandon the APMBC challenge fundamental precepts of IHL and undermine essential safeguards for upholding humanity in war.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Denmark to spend DKK 14.6 billions more on Arctic military security in partnership with its autonomous territories Greenland 🇬🇱 and the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴, adding to the DKK 10-15 billions for Greenland's defence announced last December. #Arctic #ArcticSecurity bbc.com/news/article...
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Denmark to spend billions more on Arctic military security
The move comes after President Donald Trump said he wants to acquire Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.
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VERTIC @vertic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trust & Verify No.175 is out! Featuring a lead article on the establishment of the new Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team for implementation of UNSCRs relating to North Korea, plus pieces on North Korea’s enrichment programme & the use of AI for tracking dark ships www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
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Trust & Verify no. 175, Winter 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
📰 The latest edition of Trust & Verify is out! ☣️ It features my article on export and dual-use research 🧪controls, discussing a case in the US 🇺🇸. Check it out, along with updates on North Korea’s enrichment programme 🇰🇵 and the use of AI to track dark ships, here ⤵️
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VERTIC @vertic.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨New VERTIC commentary Recent events in Syria present potential opportunities and challenges for verifiably eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles. Our latest piece explores the future implications for #CWC national implementation. Read our commentary here: t.co/v075n5NwXz
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https://www.vertic.org/2024/12/future-for-syria-and-the-chemical-weapons-convention-the-legislative-implications/
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 19/12/2024
NEW: For over a year, the Israeli government has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the minimum water needed for survival, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths. A calculated policy. An act of genocide. 🧵⤵️ www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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High North News @highnorthnews.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"The #Arctic is no longer a low-tension region," says #Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs. As part of its #new #Arctic #strategy, Ottawa is initiating an Arctic #security #dialogue with the #US and the #Nordics, and opening new #consulates in #Anchorage and #Nuuk. @melaniejolycan.bsky.social
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Strong Security Focus in Canada's New Arctic Foreign Policy
"The Arctic is no longer a low-tension region," says Canada's minister of foreign affairs. Ottawa is now initiating an Arctic security dialogue, strengthening the security perspective at a regional le...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Insightful days at the UN - Geneva 🇺🇳 with the @vertic.bsky.social delegation at the #1972BWC Working Group meeting. Hoping it will bring solid steps forward! 🧪🦠
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SIPRI.bsky.social @sipri.org · 02/12/2024
‘The biggest Middle Eastern arms producers in the Top 100 saw their arms revenues reach unprecedented heights in 2023. Growth looks set to continue.’ — Dr. Diego Lopes da Silva, SIPRI. Read more in the press release: bit.ly/4i9pcQT #SIPRI #ArmsIndustry #Top100
The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2023
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🧊 Excited to share my latest analysis for the Arctic Institute on #France 🇫🇷 strategic role in #NATO's #Arctic ambitions, offering insights from a non-Arctic perspective! Check out the full analysis through the link below ⤵️ www.thearcticinstitute.org/frances-stra...
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France's Strategic Role in NATO's Arctic Ambitions: A Non-Arctic Power's Perspective
France's role in NATO’s Arctic activities demonstrates its strong involvement in shaping Arctic governance and addressing regional stakes.
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