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Alix Renaudin
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⚖️ Associate Legal Officer @vertic.bsky.social 🗣️ IHL, WMD Disarmament & Arms control ☢️ ☣️, Use of force, Polar & Western Balkans issues 🇺🇳 Former UN Legal Affairs, UN Disarmament Affairs, CTBTO Views=my own/RT≠endorsement | Posts in 🇬🇧,🇫🇷,🇳🇴 | he/him
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 23
🗞️ 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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vertic.bsky.social VERTIC @vertic.bsky.social · Jul 23
📢 T&V No. 176 is out! Marking 50 yrs of the BTWC 🧬 & 100 yrs of the Geneva Protocol 📜, with a lead article by Jean Pascal Zanders (@ban-cbw.bsky.social), plus insights on nuclear irreversibility, institutionalisation of the BTWC & maritime sanctions evasion. Read: www.vertic.org/2025/07/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 176, Summer 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 · 21d
"C'était donc cela, la peine de mort : ce sacrifice judiciaire dans les ténèbres de l'ignorance"
R. Badinter, L'abolition.
afp.com Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 21d
🇫🇷 "Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon avec les lumières et l'esprit de 1789, la promesse accomplie de la révolution. Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon avec les principes de l'état de droit", a déclaré Emmanuel Macron lors de la cérémonie en hommage à l'artisan de l'abolition de la peine de mort ⤵️
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Aug 27
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Two side events at the BWC Working Group - VERTIC
This week, VERTIC's National Implementation Measures and Verification & Monitoring Programmes hosted simultaneous side events on August 20th at the sixth session of the BWC Working Group.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Aug 27
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 · Aug 21
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 · Aug 20
📣 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 · Aug 18
📣 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 · Aug 13
🔔 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 · Aug 11
Links to the 2 decisions:
- www.courdecassation.fr/decision/688...

- www.courdecassation.fr/decision/688...
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Aug 11
The Court justifies its u-turn on the matter by an "evolution" of customary international law encouraged by states' practice.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Aug 11
This decision is also a good signal for the enforcement of the prohibitions related to the development, production, possession and use of #ChemicalWeapons, when those activities are carried out by a State
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Aug 11
The Court based its decision on ICTY decision and foreign practices, referring to Germany, Switzerland judicial decisions, as well as
@UN
International Law Commission's report on immunities

docs.un.org/A/CN.4/701
Select a language for A/CN.4/701
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Aug 11
⚖️ 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 · Jul 24
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
The NSR highlights the importance of monitoring the developments of biotechnologies and the risks of proliferation of new biological & chemical threats posed by the uses of AI.
Unlike the precedent NSR issued in 2022, no example of chemical weapons proliferation is mentioned.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
☣️🧪 Regarding the biological & chemical weapons proliferation, the NSR mentions the pursuit of BW & CW proliferation, while insisting on the necessity to safeguard research, intelligence, expertise and response on/to CBRN issues.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
Finally, the National Strategic Review assesses the weakening of the arms control regimes form the Cold War era (NEW START, INF, etc.) while criticising the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as being detrimental to the strategic stability.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
The NSR also addresses the threat of use of nuclear weapons by Russia 🇷🇺 in the context of the conflict against Ukraine 🇺🇦. According to the document, this threat increases the risks of proliferation.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
The document also refers to the "unprecedented levels" attained by Iran 🇮🇷, despite the 🇮🇱🇺🇸 use of force against nuclear facilities. The NSR refrains from giving a prediction on the future/non-future of the Iranian nuclear programme.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
☢️ On nuclear proliferation, the NSR mentions the recent developments in DPRK 🇰🇵, with the evolution of its nuclear doctrine towards preemptive strikes and underlines the "probable" technological support from Russia 🇷🇺.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
The French 🇫🇷 National Strategic Review 2025 was published a few days ago and includes some references to WMD proliferation (Chemical, Biological, Nuclear).

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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
La RNS précise l'importance de suivre les évolutions des biotechnologies et de la prolifération de nouvelles menaces biologiques et chimiques liées à l'IA. Contrairement à la RNS2022, aucun exemple de prolifération d'armes chimiques n'est mentioné.
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
☣️🧪 Sur la prolifération d'armes biologiques et chimiques, la RNS évoque la "poursuite" de la prolifération tout en insistant sur la nécessité de préserver les capacités de recherche, renseignement, expertise et réponse sur les sujets NRBC (CBRN).
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
Enfin, la RNS constate l'affaiblissement des régimes de maîtrise des armements issues de la guerre froide (NEW START, Traité FNI, etc.), tout en dénonçant le Traité d'Interdiction des Armes Nucléaires (TIAN) comme "nui[sant] à la stabilité stratégique"
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Alix Renaudin @alixrnd.bsky.social · Jul 24
La menace d'utilisation de l'arme nucléaire par la Russie 🇷🇺 dans le conflit en Ukraine 🇺🇦 est évoqué, qui accroît selon la RNS les risques de prolifération.
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