🇦🇹 Congratulations to Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and the Austrian Foreign Ministry for being selected as the 2024 “Arms Control Persons of the Year”! 👏 👏
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🚨Voting for the Arms Control Person(s) of the Year contest ends today! #ACPOY2024 aims to highlight initiatives designed to advance disarmament, nuclear security, and international peace, security, and justice. Review the nominees and cast your vote: https://armscontrol.org/acpoy

🇯🇵#ACPOY2024: Fumio Kishida, former Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa of #Japan have been nominated for their leadership in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, including hosting a UNSC session that produced the #FMCT initiative, and more. Cast your vote: http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY

#ACPOY2024: Senators Sanders (I-Vt.), Welch (D-Vt.), Van Hollen (D-Md.) & others have been nominated for pressing the Biden admin to comply with laws that require suspension of arms transfers to states that don't allow humanitarian assistance to civilians in conflict. Vote: http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY

#ACPOY2024: Savannah River Site Watch, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, Nuclear Watch New Mexico & The South Carolina Environmental Law Project have been nominated for challenging a plan...

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Technical Secretariat has been nominated for #ACPOY2024 for its technical assistance visits to #Ukraine while investigating allegations that #Russia used riot control agents "as a weapon of warfare." Cast your vote at http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY

🇺🇸🇦🇷🇯🇵 #ACPOY2024: The United States, Argentina, and Japan have been nominated for taking action to reinforce global support for the 1967 Outer Space Treaty via a #UN resolution on “Weapons of mass destruction in outer space.” Cast your vote at http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY

🇦🇹 #Austria Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has been nominated for #ACPOY2024 for convening the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems and for advancing a #UN General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Cast your vote at http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY

The filmmakers of three new nuclear-age documentaries have been nominated for #ACPOY2024 for highlighting the devastating and long term effects of U.S. and Soviet Cold War-era nuclear weapons testing. Cast your vote at http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY

Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) and members of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group have been nominated for #ACPOY2024 for their leadership to challenge the rationale for and the exploding cost of the Sentinel ICBM program. Cast your vote at http://ArmsControl.org/ACPOY