First Committee
Press Releases
- AMID CONFLUENCE OF CRISES, UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES CAPABLE OF RIDDING PLANET OF ‘WEAPONS THAT WE FALSELY BELIEVE PROTECT US’, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD - 10 October 2008
- DELEGATES BLAME NON-COMPLIANCE WITH TREATY OBLIGATIONS, DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR HOLDING UP INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION EFFORTS - 9 October 2008
- UNITED STATES COMMITTED TO NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, BUT ONLY ONCE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PERMITS; PRUDENT NOW TO MAINTAIN NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES, FIRST COMMITTEE HEARS - 8 October 2008
- RELIANCE ON ILLUSION OF UNIPOLAR WORLD, CONNIVANCE AT DOUBLE STANDARDS IN GLOBAL SECURITY AGGRAVATE DISARMAMENT CRISIS, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD - 7 October 2008
- HUMANKIND STILL ‘CONFRONTS SELF-EXTINCTION ARISING FROM MASSIVE, COMPETITIVE BUILD-UP OF MOST DESTRUCTION WEAPONS EVER PRODUCED’, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD - 6 October 2008
- FIRST COMMITTEE WILL BEGIN DEBATE ON 6 OCTOBER; ITEMS INCLUDE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION, AVERTING OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE, STAUNCHING ILLICIT ARMS TRADE - 2 October 2008
- MARCO ANTONIO SUAZO OF HONDURAS CHAIRMAN OF FIRST COMMITTEE - 16 September 2008
- CONCLUDING WORK, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE WOULD HAVE GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE STATES TO SECURE NUCLEAR PLANTS TO PREVENT TERRORISTS’ USE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS - 2 November 2007
- CONCERNED ABOUT HIGH-ALERT STATUS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR DECREASE IN OPERATIONAL READINESS, BY NEW DRAFT APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE - 1 November 2007
- APPROVING 15 DRAFTS, FIRST COMMITTEE URGES ALL STATES TO REMAIN SEIZED ‘AT HIGHEST POLITICAL LEVEL’ OF NEED TO OPERATIONALIZE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY - 31 October 2007
>> Press Releases Home
First Committee
Other Committees
