Members of the ICAN and the Greek Anti-Nuclear Alliance invited ICAN Executive Director Melissa Parke to Athens. Melissa Parke had the opportunity to refer to international developments concerning the ratification of the Treaty and its use as a means of exerting pressure on countries that possess nuclear weapons. In June 2025 ICAN has published a fact sheet under the title "Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons spending in 2024. Melissa Parke and the Greek partners understood that the members of the Hellenic Parliament and the representative of the President of the Parliament are keen to create and participate to an inter-parliamentarian committee to ratify the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. You can watch Melissa Parke during her speech in the press conference moderated by the greek office of pressenza:Melissa Parke, ICAN, in Athens: her speech on the need to ratify TPNW.