International Conferences
GATHERING OF THE GLOBAL SECURITY PROGRAM
NEW DELHI, INDIA – OCTOBER 1994
 The Gorbachev Foundation/USA, the precursor to the State of the World Forum, in partnership with the Gorbachev Foundation/Moscow and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation for Contemporary Studies developed a Global Security Program comprised of forty specialists from around the world. Mr. Gorbachev, Senator Alan Cranston, and a number of dignitaries met in Moscow in September 1993; in Washington in May 1994; and in New Delhi in October 1994, where the Global Security Program was adopted. A report was published by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute and released in October, 1994.
- The Global Security Programme Report’s findings were presented by Mikhail Gorbachev to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in October, 1994.
- This report was distributed widely to policy-makers in Washington DC and 600 copies were presented to national leaders and experts in scores of countries.
- The Forum launched the Nuclear Weapons Elimination Initiative in 1995, which continued as a major Initiative of the Forum until 1999, when it spun-off and became its own organization, the Global Security Institute, fulfilling a life-long dream of Senator Cranston’s.
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