The third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of…
2025
The third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is scheduled to be held in which of the following cities from 3 to 7 March 2025?
Answer: A. New York — Concept — where the venue of a treaty Meeting of States Parties comes from. A multilateral disarmament treaty usually does not name any city in its own text.…
- A.
New York
- B.
Vienna
- C.
Geneva
- D.
Tokyo
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Correct answer: A
Concept — where the venue of a treaty Meeting of States Parties comes from. A multilateral disarmament treaty usually does not name any city in its own text. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) follows this pattern: Article 8 makes the United Nations Secretary-General, as depositary, responsible for convening the Meetings of States Parties on a biennial rhythm unless the states parties agree otherwise, while the states parties themselves settle the place and dates of the next session in the decisions of the current one. So the venue of any particular meeting is never deduced from the treaty text — it is read off the decision of the previous meeting and the Secretary-General’s convening notification, and it may be a United Nations complex or an ordinary conference centre.
Applying it here. The TPNW opened for signature in 2017 and entered into force on 22 January 2021. Its second session had already decided that the next one would be convened at United Nations Headquarters, and the Secretary-General’s notification duly set the third Meeting of States Parties for United Nations Headquarters, which stands in New York, from 3 to 7 March 2025 — the exact window named in the question.
Cross-check against the series of meetings.
Meeting | Host city | Venue | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
First Meeting of States Parties | Vienna | Austria Center Vienna | 21–23 June 2022 |
Second Meeting of States Parties | New York | United Nations Headquarters | 27 November – 1 December 2023 |
Third Meeting of States Parties | New York | United Nations Headquarters | 3–7 March 2025 |
Contrasting the other cities offered.
Vienna did host the first Meeting of States Parties in June 2022, at the Austria Center Vienna, but the 2025 session was not convened there.
Geneva hosts the United Nations Office at Geneva and the Conference on Disarmament, which is a separate standing negotiating body rather than this treaty’s own Meeting of States Parties; no TPNW Meeting of States Parties has been convened in that city.
Tokyo has hosted no TPNW Meeting of States Parties; Japan has not joined the treaty and takes part in nuclear-disarmament diplomacy through other channels.
Result: the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 to 7 March 2025.