United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
MAIN ISSUES
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Missiles, Resolution 1540, Counter-Terrorism Strategy, CBW Use Investigations, NPT PrepCom 2009, Report of the Secretary-General:
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction
- Conventional Arms
Small Arms / Armed Violence, Arms Trade Treaty, Transparency Registers, Ammunition, Landmines, Certain Conventional Weapons & Cluster Munitions
- Regional Disarmament
Regional Approach to Disarmament, Cooperation with Regional Partners, UN Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa
- UN Regional Centres for Peace and Disarmament:
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean
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MEETINGS/EVENTS
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* Secretary-General, Addressing Contracting Parties to Protocol V to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Urges Stronger Measures to Help Victims (9 November 2009)
* United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa holds Ministerial Meeting, N’djamena, Chad, 9 to 13 November (6 November 2009)
* The Disarmament Committee today recommended that the General Assembly convene a United Nations conference on an arms trade treaty in 2012 (30 October 2009)
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| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
* The next session on an Arms Trade Treaty will be held in New York from 12 to 23 July 2010
* Secretary-General's priority for action on Non-proliferation and disarmament
* Secretary-General's five point proposal on nuclear disarmament
* Small Arms: New Chair-designate for 2010 Biennial Meeting of States endorsed by Member States
* Nuclear-weapon-free zone mousepads and postcards depict spread of zones since 1967
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