1540 Committee

Points of Contact (POC) training course for English-speaking African States, Addis Ababa, 26-28 March 2019.
National Capacity-Building Workshop: Strengthening Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) under the framework of UN Security Council resolution 1540 (2004), Lomé, Togo, 23-25 January 2019
African Union (AU) Comprehensive Model Law on Weapons of Mass Destruction Inception Workshop, 13-14 December 2018, Vienna, Austria
National Round Table to Improve Implementation of UNSC resolution 1540 (2004) Lima, Peru – 15-16 November 2018.
UNSCR1540 (2004) Conference for States of Latin America and Caribbean – Seizing the Opportunities, Reducing the Risks, La Paz, Plurinational State of Bolivia, 7-8 November 2018.
Side event of the First Committee “Challenges for the Governance of Synthetic Biology and Implications for UN Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)”, hosted and supported by the Permanent Missions of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Sweden to the United Nations in cooperation with the 1540 Committee, its Group of Experts and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). October 30th, 2018.
Visit to Support the National Authorities of the Republic of Mali to Draft their First National Report on Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004).
Participants of the National Roundtable on the implementation of UNSCR1540(2004) in the Kingdom of Bahrain, 9-10 October 2018.
4th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity organized by the Global Emerging Pathogen Treatment Consortium (GET) in partnership with West African Task Force for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks (WATER) and Mothergold (MG). Freetown, Sierra Leone, 26-28 September 2018.
The 2nd UN Security Council Resolution 1540 Industrial Outreach Conference for the Asia-Pacific Region (Asia-Pacific Wiesbaden Conference), hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea supported by the United Nations office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) with financial contributions from the European Union and Germany,13-14 September 2018, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Participants of the Training Course for 1540 National Points of Contact of the OSCE-Member Sates, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation, 4-7 September 2018.
Participants of the Training Course for 1540 National Points of Contact of the OSCE-Member Sates, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation, 4-7 September 2018.
Points of Contact (POC) training session for francophone African States, Addis Ababa, 14-17 August 2018.
Visit by the Chair of the 1540 Committee to the Group of Experts, 2nd July 2018, New York, United States.
Regional Workshop on Science and Technology Developments Relevant to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) for the Middle East and North Africa, organized by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Government of Jordan, in cooperation with the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan, 11-12 July 2018, Amman, Jordan.
The Sixteenth Regional Meeting of National Authorities of States Parties in Africa, organized by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Government of Morocco, 19-21 June 2018, Marrakech, Morocco.
Participants at the Government of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Export Control Seminar “The Present and Future of Strategic Export Controls”, Islamabad, 9-10 May 2018.
The Security Council adopts resolution 2325 (2016) unanimously on 15 December 2016. Resolution 2325 (2016) builds on resolution 1540 (2004) and will facilitate its full and effective implementation. It was co-sponsored by 78 Member States. UN Photo