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| Foreword

| Acknowledgements

• Chapter I: Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues
  • Developments and trends, 2006
  • Issues related to the CTBT
    • Third Joint Ministerial Statement
    • The Preparatory Commission for the CTBT Organization
  • Conference on Disarmament 2006
    • Nuclear disarmament
    • Fissile material for nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices
    • Negative security assurances
    • Radiological weapons
  • Bilateral agreements and other issues
    • United States-India Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
    • Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
  • IAEA verification
    • Strengthened safeguards system
    • Addressing challenges to the IAEA safeguards system
    • Implementation of safeguards
      • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
      • Islamic Republic of Iran
      • Application of IAEA safeguards in the Middle East
  • Nuclear safety and security
    • Nuclear safety trends and issues
    • Application of international safety standards
    • Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management
    • Incident and emergency response
    • Safety and security of radioactive sources
    • Safe transport of nuclear and radioactive material
    • Nuclear Security Plan 2006-2009
    • Coordination on international instruments related to nuclear security
    • Physical protection of nuclear and other radioactive material, facilities and transports
    • Combating illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive material
    • Illicit Trafficking Database
    • Nuclear security capacity-building
  • Export controls
    • Nuclear Suppliers Group
    • Missile Technology Control Regime
  • Missile-related issues
    • The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC)
  • Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) and 1673 (2006)
    • Examination of reports
    • Outreach activities
    • Beijing
    • Accra
    • Lima
    • Other outreach activities
    • Legislative database
    • Cooperation with other relevant UNSC Committees
    • Relevant IAEA activities
  • Political declarations and other initiatives
    • Trident nuclear deterrent
    • Visions for global supply mechanisms for nuclear fuel
    • Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC)
  • General Assembly, 2006
  • Conclusion
  • Annex I: Security Council resolution 1673 (2006)
  • Annex II: Security Council resolution 1695 (2006)
  • Annex III: Security Council resolution 1696 (2006)
  • Annex IV: Security Council resolution 1718 (2006)
  • Annex V: Security Council resolution 1737 (2006)
• Chapter II: Biological and chemical weapons
  • Developments and trends, 2006
  • Biological weapons
    • Sixth Review Conference of the BWC Preparatory Committee
    • Sixth Review Conference of the BWC
  • Chemical weapons
    • Eleventh Session of the Conference of States Parties
    • Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  • UNMOVIC
  • Export controls
    • Australia Group
  • General Assembly, 2006
  • Conclusion
• Chapter III: Conventional weapons issues
  • Developments and trends, 2006
  • Small arms and light weapons
    • Security Council
    • United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
    • The International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons
    • Group of Governmental Experts to consider further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons
    • Coordinating Action on Small Arms (CASA) mechanism
    • Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations Children's Fund)
    • Armed violence prevention (UNDP and WHO)
    • Violence against children (UNICEF)
    • Firearms protocol (UNODC)
    • International Assistance: Findings of a Global Survey
    • Research and studies (UNIDIR)
  • Transparency in conventional arms transfers and military expenditures
    • The UN Register of Conventional Arms
    • Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
  • Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
    • Group of Governmental Experts of the States Parties to the CCW
    • Eighth Annual Conference of the States Parties to CCW Amended Protocol II
    • Third Review Conference of the States Parties to the CCW
    • Seventh Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Convention
  • Towards an arms trade treaty
  • Export controls
    • Wassenaar Arrangement
  • General Assembly
  • Conclusion
  • Annex I: Composition of the 2006 Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms
  • Annex II: Recommendations of the 2006 Group of Governmental Experts on the Register of Conventional Arms (excerpted from A/61/261)
  • Annex III: Composite table of replies of Governments for the Register of Conventional Arms: calendar year 2005
  • Annex IV: Composition of the Group of Governmental Experts to consider further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons (first session)
  • Annex V: Antigua Guatemala Declaration of the Regional Preparatory Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean States for the United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
• Chapter IV: Regional disarmament
  • Developments and trends, 2006
    • Security Council ministerial-level meeting on regional-global security partnership
  • Nuclear-weapon-free zones
    • Central Asia
  • Disarmament and arms regulation at regional levels
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia and the Pacific
    • Middle East
    • Europe
  • General Assembly, 2006
  • Conclusion
• Chapter V: Related issues and approaches
  • Terrorism and disarmament
    • General Assembly, 2006
  • Outer space
    • Conference on Disarmament, 2006
    • General Assembly, 2006
  • Human rights, human security and disarmament
    • Fifty-eighth session of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
    • Disarmament and human security
  • Developments in the field of information technology and security
    • General Assembly, 2006
  • Relationship between disarmament and development
    • General Assembly, 2006
  • Gender and disarmament
  • Multilateralism and disarmament
    • General Assembly, 2006
  • Arms limitation, disarmament agreements and verification
    • General Assembly, 2006
  • Conclusion
• Chapter VI: Disarmament machinery
  • Developments and trends, 2006
  • Conference on Disarmament, 2006
  • Disarmament Commission, 2006
    • Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
    • Confidence-building measures (CBMs) in the field of conventional weapons
    • Improving the effectiveness of the methods of work of the Commission
  • Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
  • The Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC)
  • The Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-LiREC)
  • The Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (RCPD)
  • General Assembly, 2006
  • Conclusion
  • Annex I: Members of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, 2006
• Chapter VII: Governmental expert studies, information and United Nations research
  • Disarmament studies
    • Studies concluded in 2006
    • Studies in progress
    • Studies mandated in 2006
  • Disarmament and non-proliferation education
    • Implementation of the recommendations by Member States
    • Implementation of the recommendations by civil society and non-governmental organizations
    • Implementation of the recommendations by the United Nations and other international organizations
  • Disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services, 2006
  • United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
  • General Assembly, 2006
  • Annex I: Promotion of disarmament and non-proliferation education and training: practical recommendations
  • Annex II: Publications and other materials of the Department for Disarmament Affairs and its regional centres in 2006
  • Annex III: UNIDIR publications in 2006
• Appendices
  • Appendix I: Status of multilateral arms regulation and disarmament agreements
  • Appendix II: Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia
  • Appendix III: Sixth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction: Final Declaration
  • Appendix IV:Third Review Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects: Final Declaration
  • Appendix V:Texts of disarmament resolutions and decisions
  • Appendix VI:Disarmament resolutions and decisions listed by chapter
  • Appendix VII:Table of resolutions and decisions on disarmament issues
  • Appendix VIII:Voting patterns of resolutions and decisions on disarmament adopted by the General Assembly in 2006
  • Appendix IX:List of reports and notes of the Secretary-General
  • Appendix X:Abbreviations and acronyms
• Selective index