General Assembly First Committee
- First Committee, Concluding Session, Sends 59 Draft Texts to General Assembly, Consistent with Its Practice of Voting on Nearly Half (7 November 2012)GA/DIS/3471
- Diplomatic Frustration over Conference on Disarmament Deadlock Sparks Urgent Calls for Tangible Results in First Committee Drafts (6 November 2012)GA/DIS/3470
- Persistent Divisions in First Committee Lock Voting Machine in Familiar Pattern as 26 Drafts, 16 by Recorded Vote, Forwarded to General Assembly (5 November 2012)GA/DIS/3469
- First Committee Approves Series of Drafts on Which Diverse Positions Converge before Tackling Raft of More Contentious Texts Next Week (2 November 2012)GA/DIS/3468
- First Committee, Seeking to Catch Up in Hurricane’s Wake, Speeds through Thematic Debates, Hearing Calls to Translate Arms Trade Concerns into Durable Treaty (1 November 2012)GA/DIS/3467
- Conference on Disarmament President Tells First Committee ‘Do Not Ask What the CD Can Do for Your Country, Ask What Your Country Can Do for the CD’ (25 October 2012)GA/DIS/3466
- Complexity of Arms Restraint Considered in First Committee as Delegates Urge ‘Get Back to Work’ on Binding Treaty to Regulate Trade (24 October 2012)GA/DIS/3465
- Full-Spectrum Dominance of Outer Space Can Turn Frontier into ‘Military Theatre’, Build Walls of Suspicion, Breach Global Security, First Committee Told (23 October 2012)GA/DIS/3464
- Manifold Misery of Mass Destruction Weapons Captures Attention of First Committee as Speakers Wrestle with Consequences of Unmet Commitments, Weak Verification (22 October 2012)GA/DIS/3463
- Nuclear Weapons Remain Integral to Strategic Doctrines of Military Alliances, Despite ‘High-Sounding and Moralistic Assertions’, First Committee Told (19 October 2012)GA/DIS/3462
- Centrality of Missiles for Offensive, Defensive Purposes, Absence of Far-Reaching Commitments to Restrain Their Proliferation Draw Attention of First Committee (18 October 2012)GA/DIS/3461
- As First Committee Begins Focused Debate on Nuclear Weapons, National Positions Converge on Principles, Classic Differences Persist on Practical Enforcement (17 October 2012)GA/DIS/3460
- Attempts to Further Mass Destruction Weapon-Free Zone in Middle East Falter amid Seemingly Insoluble Disagreements, Speakers Tell First Committee (16 October 2012)GA/DIS/3459
- ‘End Nuclear Testing Before Nuclear Testing Ends Us,’ First Committee Told, as Disarmament Machinery Chiefs Assist Search for Global Consensus (15 October 2012)GA/DIS/3458
- Non-Nuclear-Armed States in First Committee Seek to Bridge Security Gap with Unconditional Pledge of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons against Them (12 October 2012)GA/DIS/3457
- Prospects for Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Increasingly Illusive as ‘Tectonic Shifts’ from Unilateral Measures Affect Strategic Stability, First Committee Told (11 October 2012)GA/DIS/3456
- United States’ Patience Wearing Thin on Unblocking Progress to Ban Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons, Delegate Tells Disarmament Committee (10 October 2012)GA/DIS/3455
- High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Urges First Committee Not to Become Arena for Competitive Advancement of One State's Interests Over Another (9 October 2012)GA/DIS/3454
- Opening Day in First Committee Spotlights Strategic Uncertainty, Political Stasis, as Speakers Urge ‘Save Ourselves from Ourselves’ (8 October 2012)GA/DIS/3453
- First Committee Prepares for Annual Debate with Approval of Agenda, Work Programme for Sixty-Seventh Session (5 October 2012)GA/DIS/3452
- Desra Percaya of Indonesia Chair of First Committee (18 September 2012)BIO/4406-GA/DIS/3451
- First Committee Elects Bureau for Sixty-Seventh General Assembly Session (4 September 2012)GA/DIS/3450
- First Committee, Concluding Work for Session, Sends 52 Draft Texts to General Assembly Covering Broad Spectrum of Disarmament, Security Concerns (31 October 2011)GA/DIS/3449
- If Disarmament Conference Fails to Start Work by End of 2012 Session, General Assembly to Consider Options for Fissile Material Ban, Says First Committee (28 October 2011)GA/DIS/3448
- First Committee Seeks to Ban Development of New Types of Mass Destruction Weapons, by One of 22 Draft Texts Forwarded to General Assembly for Adoption (27 October 2011)GA/DIS/3447
- Voting Machine ‘Locks’ in Familiar Pattern as Disarmament Committee Sends 17 Drafts to General Assembly for Adoption (26 October 2011)GA/DIS/3446
- Perception in First Committee ‘World Cannot Afford to Stand Still’ on Disarmament, but Divergent Views Emerge on Reasons for Stagnation, Ways to Overcome It (25 October 2011)GA/DIS/3445
- Seven Draft Resolutions Introduced in First Committee, Two Reflecting Divergent Views on Solving Impasse in Multilateral Disarmament Forum (24 October 2011)GA/DIS/3444
- If Conference on Disarmament Cannot Break 15-Year-Long Deadlock, United Nations Could ‘Lose Legitimacy in Disarmament Affairs’, First Committee Told (21 October 2011)GA/DIS/3443
- Unregulated Information Highway is Non-Traditional Security Threat with Too Many ‘Traffic Accidents’, China Tells First Committee, Warning of Security Breaches (20 October 2011)GA/DIS/3442
- World’s Weapons Stockpile ‘Over-Supplied’, as States Reshape True Aim of Charter-based Article on Self-Defence, First Committee Told (19 October 2011)GA/DIS/3441
- Stockpiled Instruments of Modern Violence — Conventional Weapons — Focus of Debate in First Committee, as Delegates Rally Support around Key Draft Resolutions (18 October 2011)GA/DIS/3440
- First Committee Hears Introduction of Eight Drafts on Range of Topics, from Threat of Outer Space Arms Race to Terrorist Acquisition of Mass Destruction Weapons (17 October 2011)GA/DIS/3439
- When It Comes to Non-Proliferation, Arms Limitation, Disarmament Agreements, ‘Rules Must Be Binding, Violations Must Be Punished’, First Committee Told (14 October 2011)GA/DIS/3438
- It Is ‘Bitter Reality’ in Complex, Dangerous World that Possession of Nuclear Weapons by Some Gives Others Excuse to Acquire Them, First Committee Told (13 October 2011)GA/DIS/3437
- ‘Sorry to Report’, Conference on Disarmament Official Tells First Committee, No Key Disarmament, Non-Proliferation Treaties in Pipeline Now (12 October 2011)GA/DIS/3436
- ‘Mantra’ of Nuclear-Armed States that Fissile Material Ban Ripe for Negotiation Follows Dictates of Convenience, Not Security, First Committee Told (11 October 2011)GA/DIS/3435
- International Community Wise to ‘Take Step Back, Seriously Question Approach as Mindless Arms Race Flourishes Unencumbered’, First Committee Hears (10 October 2011)GA/DIS/3434
- China Champions New Thinking on Security, Shaped by Mutual Trust, Mutual Benefit, Amid Calls in First Committee for Binding Pledges of Non Use of Nuclear Weapons (7 October 2011)GA/DIS/3433
- Membership in Conference on Disarmament Yields Rights but Also Responsibilities, First Committee Told, as Delegations Make Clear Deadlock Taking Its Toll (6 October 2011)GA/DIS/3432
- Nuclear Proliferation ‘Biggest Danger Facing Our Planet’, Says France, Warning in First Committee Debate ‘More Disarmament Will Not Suffice’ to Stop It (5 October 2011)GA/DIS/3431
- Path from Prague ‘Fast and Straight’, but Moving into ‘Uncharted Terrain’, United States Delegate Tells First Committee during General Debate (4 October 2011)GA/DIS/3430
- First Committee Must Not ‘Close Shop and Wait for World Peace’ before Furthering Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Delegations Told as Debate Opens (3 October 2011)GA/DIS/3429
- First Committee, in Preparation for Start of Annual General Debate Monday, Holds Organizational Meeting to Adopt Agenda, Work Programme for Session (30 September 2011)GA/DIS/3428
- First Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Sixth General Assembly Session (16 September 2011)GA/DIS/3427
- Jarmo Viinanen of Finland Chair of First Committee (14 September 2011)BIO/4319-GA/DIS/3426
- Disarmament Committee Notes New Strategic Relationship between Russian Federation, United States, Their Endeavour to Reduce Role, Importance of Nuclear Weapons (29 October 2010)GA/DIS/3425
- Conventional Arms Control, Symmetry as Lynchpin to Regional, Subregional Stability Subject of One of 16 Draft Resolutions, Decisions Approved by First Committee (28 October 2010)GA/DIS/3424
- Time Now Opportune for Nuclear-Armed States to Take Effective Disarmament Measures to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, by 1 of 12 Drafts Approved in First Committee (27 October 2010)GA/DIS/3423
- General Assembly to Ask Nuclear Powers to Meet Obligations to Forswear Nuclear Weapons, Reduce Significance in Security Concepts, by First Committee Text (26 October 2010)GA/DIS/3422
- Momentum Gathering for Weaponization of Outer Space, Risk of Outer Space Arms Race Rising, Warns China’s Delegation in First Committee, Urging Binding New Treaty (25 October 2010)GA/DIS/3421
- First Committee Considers One of Greatest Contemporary Security Threats — Chemical, Biological Weapons, as Thematic Debates, Introduction of Drafts Continue (22 October 2010)GA/DIS/3420
- Fortifying Regional Disarmament and Security, Countering Potential Cyberwarfare, Misuse of Dual-Purpose Technologies, Focus of Debate in First Committee (21 October 2010)GA/DIS/3419
- Arms Supplies to Conflict-Ridden Regions with Unmanageable Conventional Weapons Imbalance Enhance Compulsion to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told (20 October 2010)GA/DIS/3418
- Patchwork of National, Regional Controls over Conventional Weapons Trade Lacks Global Support Needed to Reduce Arms in Circulation, First Committee Hears (19 October 2010)GA/DIS/3417
- ‘High Priests of Disarmament Content with Status Quo,’ First Committee Told, as Debate Intensifies Over Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament Gridlock (18 October 2010)GA/DIS/3416
- Thematic Debate Continues in First Committee, as Speakers Seek to Recast Norm against Nuclear Weapons Possession, Codify Global Security Architecture (15 October 2010)GA/DIS/3415
- Double Standards, Discriminatory Practices Must Be Traded for Trust to Overcome Obstacles to Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, First Committee Hears in Debate (14 October 2010)GA/DIS/3414
- Conference on Disarmament Chief Asks Member States in First Committee: ‘Do You Want Disarmament or Do You Want Consensus?’, as Nuclear Weapons Debate Begins (13 October 2010)GA/DIS/3413
- Treaty Banning Only Future Production of Fissile Material Will Freeze Asymmetries in Stockpiles, Be Injurious to Pakistan’s National Security, First Committee Told (12 October 2010)GA/DIS/3412
- Controlling Fissile Material Holdings of Key Nuclear Weapons Possessors Would Go Far to Curb Proliferation, Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, First Committee Told (11 October 2010)GA/DIS/3411
- Diplomatic Clash over Absence of Binding Promises Never to Use Nuclear Weapons against Non-Nuclear-Weapon States Resurfaces in First Committee during Debate (8 October 2010)GA/DIS/3410
- Alongside Focus on Nuclear Threat, Eyes Must Be Pinned on Devastating Small Arms Scourge — Fuelling Armed Violence, Black Market Trade, First Committee Told (7 October 2010)GA/DIS/3409
- Rule of Law Not Rule of Power Needed to Tackle Disarmament Challenges, First Committee Told in Debate on Full Range of Security Threats (6 October 2010)GA/DIS/3408
- World Faces Conundrum over Desire for Security through Outdated Machinery that Delivers Stalemates Instead of Progress, First Committee Hears (5 October 2010)GA/DIS/3407
- ‘May the Momentum Be with Us,’ Urges Disarmament Chief in First Committee, Warning against Indefinite Delays, Chronic Compliance Questions, Military Spending Trends (4 October 2010)GA/DIS/3406
- First Committee Completes Bureau, Prepares Ground for Upcoming General Debate on All Disarmament, International Security Items, in Organizational Meeting (1 October 2010)GA/DIS/3405
- Miloš Koterec of Slovakia Chair of First Committee (14 September 2010)BIO/4239-GA/DIS/3404
- Reframing Disarmament Debate in First Committee, Strengthening Multilateralism Advanced Momentum, Led to Approval of 54 Drafts, Chair Says as Session Closes (2 November 2009)GA/DIS/3403
- Sending Six Drafts to General Assembly, First Committee Calls for International Day for World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Conference on Arms Trade Treaty in 2012 (30 October 2009)GA/DIS/3402
- First Committee Advances Bold, Sweeping Plans to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Arsenals, Build Confidence, Boost Transparency, Submitting Nine Texts to General Assembly (29 October 2009)GA/DIS/3401
- Disarmament Committee Sends 25 Texts to General Assembly, Seeking to Avert Outer Space Arms Race, Unilateral Actions, Unverified Non-Compliance Accusations (28 October 2009)GA/DIS/3400
- Gravely Concerned at Danger of Possible Nuclear Weapons Use, First Committee Draft Resolution Calls on States to Prevent Proliferation, Promote Nuclear Disarmament (27 October 2009)GA/DIS/3399
- Barriers Blocking Disarmament Negotiations Beginning to Yield, First Committee Told, Examining Strength of Disarmament Machinery Following Years of Paralysis (23 October 2009)GA/DIS/3398
- Robust Regional Action, Combined with Strict Compliance with Arms Control Accords, Contains Arms Races, First Committee Told during Debate on Regional Disarmament (22 October 2009)GA/DIS/3397
- Time for General Discussion on Arms Trade Treaty Is Over, First Committee Hears, Seeking in One of Five Drafts to Prevent Diversion of Weapons to Illicit Market (21 October 2009)GA/DIS/3396
- Divergent Paths Emerge as First Committee Debates Issues of Cluster Munitions, Transparency of Weapons Sales, Viability of International Arms Trade Treaty (20 October 2009)GA/DIS/3395
- First Committee Wraps Up Debate on Disarmament Aspects of Outer Space, Opens Discussion on Conventional Weapons, Hearing Introduction of Six Draft Texts (19 October 2009)GA/DIS/3394
- Chemical Weapons Ban Took a Century to Enact, But ‘Living Example’ of Success in Field, First Committee Told, Taking Up Weapons of Mass Destruction Debate (16 October 2009)GA/DIS/3393
- First Committee Hears Introduction of Five Drafts, Detailed Accounts by Russian Federation, United States of Reductions in Nuclear Warheads, Ballistic Missiles (15 October 2009)GA/DIS/3392
- Proposal for International Day to Rid World of Nuclear Weapons Submitted in First Committee, with Traditional Text on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere (14 October 2009)GA/DIS/3391
- Efforts to Stem Spread of Violence, Armed Conflict Finds Diverse Allies, Boosting Chances of Achieving Disarmament Goals, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee (13 October 2009)GA/DIS/3390
- New Brand of Nuclear Arms Race, Ballooning Defence Budgets, Still-Full Nuclear Arsenals Challenge Renewal of Non-Proliferation Regime, First Committee Hears (12 October 2009)GA/DIS/3389
- New Winds Blowing through the Halls of Disarmament, but Real Menace -– Small Arms, Light Weapons -- Destabilizing Societies Everywhere, First Committee Told (9 October 2009)GA/DIS/3388
- Exploiting Renewed Focus on Nuclear Disarmament Requires Political Will, Reversal of Past Policies, Understanding New Dynamics Among Nations, First Committee Told (8 October 2009)GA/DIS/3387
- For First Time in Years, Notion of Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Supported by Leaders of All Major Industrialized Countries, Disarmament Committee Hears in Debate (7 October 2009)GA/DIS/3386
- One Nuclear Weapon Exploded in One Major City Could Kill Hundreds of Thousands; No Single Nation Could Halt Spread Alone, United States Tells First Committee (6 October 2009)GA/DIS/3385
- Disarmament Remains ‘Burning Problem of Our Time’, But Today’s World Capable of Solving Problem, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee as Debate Opens (5 October 2009)GA/DIS/3384
- Disarmament Committee Prepares for Start of General Debate on Monday, 5 October, with Adoption of Agenda, Work Programme, in Brief Organizational Meeting (1 October 2009)GA/DIS/3383
- José Luis Cancela of Uruguay Chair of First Committee (15 September 2009)BIO/4125-GA/DIS/3382
- First Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Fourth General Assembly Session (14 July 2009)GA/DIS/3381
