67th Session of the General Assembly
First Committee Press Releases, Draft Resolutions, Statements, Secretary-General's Reports, and Side Events
Press Releases
- 7 November 2012
First Committee, Concluding Session, Sends 59 Draft Texts to General Assembly - 6 November 2012
Diplomatic Frustration over Conference on Disarmament Deadlock Sparks Urgent Calls for Tangible Results in First Committee Drafts - 5 November 2012
Persistent Divisions in First Committee Lock Voting Machine in Familiar Pattern as 26 Drafts, 16 by Recorded Vote, Forwarded to General Assembly - 2 November 2012
First Committee Approves Series of Drafts on Which Diverse Positions Converge - 1 November 2012
First Committee, Seeking to Catch Up in Hurricane's Wake, Speeds through Thematic Debates, Hearing Calls to Translate Arms Trade Concerns into Durable Treaty - 25 October 2012
Gruesome Consequences of Conventional Weapons Poses 'Insurmountable Challenges', Delegate Says as Thematic Debate Continues - 24 October 2012
Complexity of Arms Restraint Considered in First Committee as Delegates Urge ‘Get Back to Work’ on Binding Treaty to Regulate Trade - 23 October 2012
Full-Spectrum Dominance of Outer Space Can Turn Frontier into ‘Military Theatre’, Build Walls of Suspicion, Breach Global Security, First Committee Told - 22 October 2012
Manifold Misery of Mass Destruction Weapons Captures Attention of First Committee as Speakers Wrestle with Consequences of Unmet Commitments, Weak Verification - 19 October 2012
Nuclear Weapons Remain Integral to Strategic Doctrines of Military Alliances, Despite ‘High-Sounding and Moralistic Assertions’, First Committee Told - 18 October 2012
Centrality of Missiles for Offensive, Defensive Purposes, Absence of Far-Reaching Commitments to Restrain Their Proliferation Draw Attention of First Committee - 17 October 2012
As First Committee Begins Focused Debate on Nuclear Weapons, National Positions Converge on Principles, Classic Differences Persist on Practical Enforcement - 16 October 2012
Attempts to Further Mass Destruction Weapon-Free Zone in Middle East Falter amid Seemingly Insoluble Disagreements, Speakers Tell First Committee - 15 October 2012
‘End Nuclear Testing Before Nuclear Testing Ends Us,’ First Committee Told, as Disarmament Machinery Chiefs Assist Search for Global Consensus - 12 October 2012
Non-Nuclear-Armed States in First Committee Seek to Bridge Security Gap with Unconditional Pledge of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons against Them - 11 October 2012
Prospects for Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Increasingly Illusive as ‘Tectonic Shifts’ from Unilateral Measures Affect Strategic Stability, First Committee Told - 10 October 2012
United States’ Patience Wearing Thin on Unblocking Progress to Ban Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons, Delegate Tells Disarmament Committee - 9 October 2012
High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Urges First Committee Not to Become Arena for Competitive Advancement of One State's Interests Over Another - 8 October 2012
Opening Day in First Committee Spotlights Strategic Uncertainty, Political Stasis, as Speakers Urge ‘Save Ourselves from Ourselves’(GA/DIS/3453) - 5 October 2012
First Committee Prepares for Annual Debate with Approval of Agenda, Work Programme for Sixty-Seventh Session(GA/DIS/3452) - 18 September 2012
Biographical Note on Desra Percaya of Indonesia, Chair of First Committee (GA/DIS/3451) - 4 September 2012
First Committee Elects Bureau for Sixty-Seventh General Assembly Session (GA/DIS/3450)
Draft Resolutions Adopted by the First Committee
| A/C.1/67/L.1 | Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East |
| A/C.1/67/L.2 | The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East |
| A/C.1/67/L.3 | Prevention of an arms race in outer space |
| A/C.1/67/L.4/Rev.1 | General and complete disarmament: Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia |
| A/C.1/67/L.5 | Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report Of the Disarmament Commission |
| A/C.1/67/L.6 | Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region |
| A/C.1/67/L.7 | General and complete disarmament: Missiles |
| A/C.1/67/L.8 | General and complete disarmament: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction |
| A/C.1/67/L.9 | General and complete disarmament: Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons |
| A/C.1/67/L.10 | Maintenance of international security-good-neighbourliness, stability and development in South-Eastern Europe |
| A/C.1/67/L.11 | General and complete disarmament: Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms — The arms trade treaty |
| A/C.1/67/L.12 | 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 |
| A/C.1/67/L.13 | General and complete disarmament: Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments |
| A/C.1/67/L.14 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.15 | General and complete disarmament: Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol |
| A/C.1/67/L.16 | General and complete disarmament: Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium |
| A/C.1/67/L.17 | General and complete disarmament: Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control |
| A/C.1/67/L.18 | General and complete disarmament: Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation |
| A/C.1/67/L.19 | General and complete disarmament: High-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.20 | General and complete disarmament: Relationship between disarmament and development |
| A/C.1/67/L.21 | General and complete disarmament: Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them |
| A/C.1/67/L.22 | General and complete disarmament: Transparency in armaments |
| A/C.1/67/L.23 | General and complete disarmament: The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation |
| A/C.1/67/L.24 | General and complete disarmament: Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities |
| A/C.1/67/L.25 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons |
| A/C.1/67/L.26 | General and complete disarmament: Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction |
| A/C.1/67/L.27 | General and complete disarmament: Reducing nuclear danger |
| A/C.1/67/L.28 | General and complete disarmament: Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems |
| A/C.1/67/L.29 | Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction |
| A/C.1/67/L.30 | Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security |
| A/C.1/67/L.31 | Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations |
| A/C.1/67/L.32 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament Asia and the Pacific |
| A/C.1/67/L.33 | Report of the Conference on Disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.34 | General and complete disarmament: United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education |
| A/C.1/67/L.35/Rev.1 | General and complete disarmament: Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control |
| A/C.1/67/L.36 | General and complete disarmament: Information on confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms |
| A/C.1/67/L.37 | General and complete disarmament: Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures |
| A/C.1/67/L.38 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| A/C.1/67/L.39 | General and complete disarmament: Preventing the acquisition by terrorists of radioactive sources |
| A/C.1/67/L.40 | General and complete disarmament: Mongolia's international security and nuclear-weapon-free status |
| A/C.1/67/L.41 | General and complete disarmament: Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices |
| A/C.1/67/L.42 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Disarmament Information Programme |
| A/C.1/67/L.43* | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty |
| A/C.1/67/L.44 | General and complete disarmament: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction |
| A/C.1/67/L.45 | General and complete disarmament: Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas |
| A/C.1/67/L.46 | General and complete disarmament: Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations |
| A/C.1/67/L.47 | General and complete disarmament: Regional disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.48 | General and complete disarmament: The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects |
| A/C.1/67/L.49 | General and complete disarmament: United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons |
| A/C.1/67/L.50 | General and complete disarmament: Nuclear disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.51 | General and complete disarmament: Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context |
| A/C.1/67/L.52 | Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons |
| A/C.1/67/L.53 | General and complete disarmament: Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels |
| A/C.1/67/L.54 | Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.55 | African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty |
| A/C.1/67/L.56 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services |
| A/C.1/67/L.57 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa |
| A/C.1/67/L.58 | General and complete disarmament: Open-ended working group on the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament |
| A/C.1/67/L.59 | Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa |
| A/C.1/67/L.60 | PBI - General and complete disarmament: Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms |
Chair's Statement
High Representative Statements
- 17 October 2012
Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly
Follow-up of resolutions and decisions adopted by the First Committee at its past session / Presentation of reports
- 15 October 2012
Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly
Exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and other high-level officials in the field of arms control and disarmament
- 8 October 2012
High Representative Angela Kane's Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly
Countries, Groups and Organisations' Statements
General Debate
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Chile
- Chile on behalf of CELAC
- China
- Colombia
- Conference on Disarmament, Secretary-General
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Egypt on behalf of the Arab Group
- Ethiopia
- European Union
- France
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Guatemala
- Haiti on behalf of CARICOM
- Hungary
- IAEA
- ICRC
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of NAM
- Israel
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Republic of Korea
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Montenegro
- Myanmar on behalf of the ASEAN Member States
- Nepal
- New-Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Nigeria on behalf of the African Group
- Norway
- Oman
- Opanal
- OPCW
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Peru
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Russian Federation
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition (NAC)
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tadjikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Thematic Debate on Nuclear Weapons
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Bangladesh
- Egypt on behalf of Arab Group
- European Union
- France
- India
- Indonesia on behalf of NAM
- Iran
- Japan
- Kazakhstan on behalf of CANWFZ
- Libya
- Mexico on behalf of the Co-Sponsors of Draft Resolution L.46
- Mongolia
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Peru on behalf of UNASUR
- Republic of Korea
- South Africa
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey on behalf of NPDI
- United States of America
- Zambia
Thematic Debate on Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
Thematic Debate on Disarmament Aspects of Outer Space
Thematic Debate on Conventional Weapons
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belarus
- Burkina Faso
- Democratic Republica of the Congo
- Denmark
- Egypt on behalf of the Arab Group
- European Union
- Finland
- France
- Germany on behalf of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom on the ATT
- India
- Indonesia on behalf of NAM
- Iran
- Ireland
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Mali
- Myanmar
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru on behalf of UNASUR
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Senegal
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Tanzania
- Trinidad and Tobago on behalf of CARICOM
Thematic Debate on Other Disarmament Measures and International Security
Thematic Debate on Regional Disarmament and Security
Thematic Debate on Disarmament Machinery
Civil Society and NGO Presentations
Secretary-General's Reports
| A/67/42 | Disarmament Commission |
| A/67/112 | United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific |
| A/67/113 | Progress made on 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, ten years following its adoption |
| A/67/114 | Confidence-building measures in the regional and sub-regional context |
| A/67/115 | Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol |
| A/67/117 | United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa |
| A/67/128 | Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures |
| A/67/129 | Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels |
| A/67/130 | Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control |
| A/67/131 | Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation |
| A/67/132 | United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and development in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| A/67/133 A/67/133/Corr.1 | Consolidated report on: - Reducing nuclear danger - Nuclear disarmament - International Court of Justice |
| A/67/134 | Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region |
| A/67/135 | Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons mass destruction |
| A/67/137 | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty |
| A/67/138 | United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education |
| A/67/139 (Part I) A/67/139 (Part II) |
Consolidated report on: - Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East - The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East |
| A/67/154 | Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) |
| A/67/160 | United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services programme |
| A/67/166 | Mongolia's international security and nuclear-weapon-free status |
| A/67/167 | Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security |
| A/67/169 | Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) |
| A/67/176 | Consolidated report on: - Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures; - Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them; - The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects |
| A/67/177 | Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium |
| A/67/186 | Relationship between disarmament and development |
| A/67/202 | United Nations Disarmament Information Programme |
| A/67/203 | Work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters |
| A/67/209 | Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) |
| A/67/212 | United Nations Register of Conventional Arms |