Pilkerton outlined four priorities: protecting national security, encouraging legitimate investment, working with allies under the 2018 FIRRMA (Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act) law, and preparing for emerging technology risks through the Investment Security Technology Initiative. He stressed that national security would remain the guiding principle even as the office sought to respond more effectively to investors and businesses.

Through the ATLAS initiative, the IAEA aims to bring together key stakeholders, including Member States, the International Maritime Organization, port authorities, nuclear and maritime regulators, and industry representatives, to address the legal, regulatory, and technical challenges associated with deploying nuclear technology at sea.

The EASF, which was established in 2007 and reached full operational capability in December 2015, is the product of several factors that have defined regional integration in the field of peace and security in Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa, including long-standing and continuing tensions between countries of the region and the threats to peace and security with internal wars, environmental degradation, terrorism, and unconstitutional changes of government notwithstanding. 

Uganda is in preparations to host the two high level international summits of Non Aligned Movement (NAM) and the...