First Committee
First Committee
Press Releases
- 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
- GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR IMMEDIATE, URGENT STEPS TO REDUCE UNINTENTIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS USE, ACCORDING TO ONE OF 21 TEXTS APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE - 30 October 2007
- ‘LOOPHOLES’ IN SMALL ARMS NORMS MUST BE CLOSED, AS ILLICIT WEAPONS WEAKEN STATE STABILITY, DESTROY ECONOMIC FABRIC, KILL HUNDREDS DAILY, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD - 29 October 2007
- SIGNING WEAPONS REDUCTION TREATIES, TALKING ABOUT NON-PROLIFERATION NOT ENOUGH; NATIONS MUST HAVE ‘POLITICAL STRENGTH’ FOR COMPLIANCE, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD - 26 October 2007
- RUSSIAN FEDERATION, UNITED STATES CALL ON STATES TO JOIN TREATY REGIME REJECTING INTERMEDIATE-RANGE, SHORTER-RANGE MISSILES, IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE - 25 October 2007
- DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TACKLES BROAD RANGE OF ITEMS, INCLUDING CLUSTER MUNITIONS, SMALL ARMS, LANDMINES, VERIFICATION OF ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT TREATIES - 24 October 2007
- IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS TRANSFERS, SOARING DEATH TOLL FROM SMALL ARMS, LIGHT WEAPONS UNDERSCORE ‘PRESSING NEED’ FOR ARMS TRADE TREATY, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD - 23 October 2007
- UNITED STATES SAYS DISCUSSING MERITS OF TREATIES TO PREVENT ‘WEAPONIZATION’ OF OUTER SPACE ‘POINTLESS’, AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONTINUES THEMATIC DEBATES - 22 October 2007