UNODA STRUCTURE
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is structured in five branches:
CD Secretariat & Conference Support Branch (Geneva)
The CD Secretariat and Conference Support Branch (Geneva) provides organizational and substantive servicing to the Conference on Disarmament (CD), the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, and its Ad hoc Committees.
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Branch
The WMD Branch provides substantive support in the area of the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons). It supports and participates in multilateral efforts to strengthen the non-proliferation of WMD and in this connection cooperates with the relevant intergovernmental organizations and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, in particular the IAEA, the OPCW and the CTBTO PrepCom.
Conventional Arms Branch (CAB)
The Conventional Arms Branch focuses its efforts on(all weapons not considered WMD , including smal arms and light weapons. It is responsible for substantive conference support on the UN Programme of Action on small arms, the Arms Trade Treaty process, and the UN transparency registers. CAB chairs the UN-internal coordination mechanism on small arms (CASA)
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