📋 Tender Overview
The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation VCDNP organized on January 15 2020 the seminar Building Bridges and Facilitating Consensus for a Successful ICONS 2020 in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Romania to Vienna.The event provided a useful platform for debates on enhancing the interest of the member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA and other actors with nuclear safety concerns as a prelude to the ministerial conference International Conference on Nuclear Security Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts ICONS 2020 from Vienna. The event will take place on February 10-14 and will be co-chaired by Romania and Panama. ICONS 2020 is an IAEA brand event in the field of nuclear safety and the prevention of nuclear terrorism the previous editions taking place in 2013 and 2016. The objective of ICONS 2020 is to provide a framework for policy makers officials and experts in the field of nuclear safety to change views on experiences.The January 15th event began with the speech of Rafael Grossi general director of the IAEA and continued with speeches from the representatives of Romania as co-chair of the preparatory process of ICONS 2020 Egypt and Nuclear Threat Initiative. More than 120 people representatives of the diplomatic academic and think-tanks in Vienna attended the moderated discussions by the executive director of the VCDNP.The selection of our country in March 2019 for the role of co-president of ICONS 2020 represents a recognition of the substantial and constructive role assumed in promoting nuclear security as well as our countrys traditional contribution to achieving the IAEAs goals for non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. The preparations for ensuring the smooth running of the ministerial segment of ICONS 2020 and for the negotiation of the Ministerial Declaration to be adopted at ICONS 2020 are coordinated by the Missions of Romania and the Republic of Panama from Vienna.
