Events (2020)

November

19th

:

20th

IAEA: Board of Governors*

Vienna, Austria

16th

:

20th

Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Second Session)

New York

10th

World Science Day for Peace and Development

1st

:

30th

Twenty-Fifth Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention

The Hague (TBC)

October

28th

:

30th

2nd

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ( TBD )

July

20th

:

24th

Group of Governmental Experts on “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus” (Postponed)

New York

6th

:

8th

In-country training programme in support of gender mainstreamed policy on small arms control: First round scheduled ( TBD )

Dili, Timor-Leste

June

30th

:

1st

Bangladesh national interagency roundtable meeting to support implementation of UNSCR 1540 (2004)- (TBD)

Dhaka, Bangladesh

25th

:

26th

22nd

:

26th

Responsible Innovation Virtual Workshops with students from Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Singapore University of Technology and Design, under the Responsible Innovation for a Secure Environment in Asia and the Pacific (RISE-AP) project

Virtual Meeting

15th

:

19th

IAEA: Board of Governors*

(Virtual) Vienna, Austria

May

27th

:

29th

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support Sri Lanka in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on SALW: Final Briefing Visit ( TBD )

Colombo, Sri Lanka

19th

:

21st

Regional Seminar to Support the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in South Asia ( Postponed )

Kathmandu, Nepal

11th

:

15th

4th

:

6th

April

24th

Fourth Conference of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia (postponed to a period in 2021 to be decided by the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session)

New York

20th

:

24th

Group of Governmental Experts on “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus”( Informal virtual sessions )

Virtual - Informal Sessions

14th

:

17th

Arms Trade Treaty Working Group meetings and 2nd CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting (Cancelled)

WMO Building, Geneva

6th

:

24th

The substantive session of the United Nations Disarmament Commission ( Postponed to 2021 )

New York

March

26th

45th anniversary of the entry into force of the BWC

10th

:

13th

Ninety-Third Session of the OPCW Executive Council

The Hague

9th

:

13th

IAEA: Board of Governors

Vienna, Austria

4th

:

6th

Regional Asia-Pacific Seminar on Gun Violence and Illicit Small-Arms Trafficking from a Gender Perspective

Kathmandu, Nepal

February

25th

:

27th

Workshop for selected CARICOM Countries on the Universalization of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT), the Convention for the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and its 2005 Amendment

24th

:

28th

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Training for MFA and MoD representatives from Asian States, Jointly with UNITAR Hiroshima

Hiroshima Japan

17th

:

28th

17th

:

19th

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support Sri Lanka in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on SALW: Assessment Visit

Colombo, Sri Lanka

12th

:

13th

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support Timor-Leste in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on SALW and the ATT: Final Briefing Visit

Dili, Timor-Leste

4th

:

7th

Arms Trade Treaty Working Group meetings and 1st CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting

Room V, Palais des Nations, Geneva

4th

:

7th

Working Group meetings and 1st CSP6 Informal Preparatory Meeting

Room V, Palais des Nations, Geneva

January

29th

:

31st

Thematic seminar on pillar I (disarmament) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in preparation for the 2020 NPT Review Conference

Geneva

20th

:

27th

Conference on Disarmament Part I

Algeria (20 Jan- 14 February), Argentina (17 Feb- 13 March), Australia (16 March- 5 June).

13th

:

15th

Conference on UNSCR 1540 – Planning for 2021 and beyond

13th

:

17th

Group of Governmental Experts on “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus”( Session 1)

New York