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Alexander Kmentt

Alexander Kmentt is the Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department at the Austrian Foreign Ministry. Kmentt served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union in 2016-2019 and as President of the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022. His book on the origins of the TPNW was published in 2021 at Routledge.


Articles by Alexander Kmentt

Alexander Kmentt of Austria (center) talks with fellow delegates at the NPT review conference on May 1, 2015. (Credit: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons / ICAN)

How the ban treaty addresses the inherent injustices of nuclear weapons

By Alexander Kmentt | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

The ban treaty, two years after: A ray of hope for nuclear disarmament

By Alexander Kmentt | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion