First Committee
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- FIRST COMMITTEE ASKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ENCOURAGE STATES TO ENSURE IRONCLAD INTERNAL CONTROLS TO PREVENT DIVERSION OF LEGAL WEAPONS TO ILLICIT MARKET - 31 October 2008
- FAILURE TO COMBAT ILLICIT ARMS BROKERING WOULD PROLONG CONFLICTS, EASE ACCESS BY NON-STATE ACTORS TO MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS, SAYS FIRST COMMITTEE TEXT - 30 October 2008
- STAUNCHING UNCONTROLLED SPREAD OF ILLICIT WEAPONS IS THRUST OF 1 OF 20 DRAFTS APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE, AS VOTING CONTINUES ON BROAD RANGE OF MEASURES - 29 October 2008
- SEEKING TO REDUCE NUCLEAR DANGER, GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR URGENT STEPS TO REDUCE RISK OF ACCIDENTAL USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BY FIRST COMMITTEE TEXT - 28 October 2008
- CANADA ASKS FIRST COMMITTEE TO IMAGINE ‘UTOPIAN’ PICTURE OF DISARMAMENT MACHINERY; URGES ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS WHERE PROGRESS IN TRADITIONAL MACHINERY HAS STAGNATED - 27 October 2008
- LOFTY GOALS OF PEACE, DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION REQUIRE SOUND REGIONAL PROGRAMMES, FIRST COMMITTEE HEARS AS THEMATIC DEBATES CONTINUE - 24 October 2008
- UNITED NATIONS IS DRIVING FORCE IN EFFORTS TO ADDRESS NEW SECURITY THREATS, AS DISARMAMENT MACHINERY ASSUMES MORE MAJOR ROLE, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD - 23 October 2008
- FIRST COMMITTEE WILL ASK GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CALL ON STATES TO ADOPT LEGISLATION TO PREVENT ILLICIT ARMS BROKERING, ACCORDING TO NEW DRAFT RESOLUTION - 22 October 2008
- NIGERIA URGES COUNTRIES TO HEED ‘CLARION CALLS ON OUR CONSCIENCES’ BY NEGOTIATING ARMS TRADE TREATY, AS FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATES CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS - 21 October 2008
- PREVENTING OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE WOULD AVERT GRAVE DANGER; POSSIBLE NEW VERIFIABLE BILATERAL, MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS NEEDED, SAYS DRAFT TEXT IN FIRST COMMITTEE - 20 October 2008
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