Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

7^th & 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)

DELAY IN REAPING ‘DISARMAMENT DIVIDEND’ DIVERTS RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT, FUELS

CONFLICT, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD TODAY AS IT CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE

World Safer Four Decades Ago; Now, ‘Faceless, Nameless Non-State Actors’ Have

Weapons of Mass Destruction, Many Countries on Verge of Joining ‘Nuclear Club’

CORRECTION

On page 11 of Press Release GA/DIS/3345 issued 16 October, the right of reply by the representative of Syria was incorrectly reported, due to an error in interpretation from Arabic to English.  The sixth full paragraph on that page should read as follows:

Moreover, the entity that was the fourth largest exporter of lethal weapons in the world, that which violated the airspace of sovereign States and carried out military aggression against them, as had happened on 6 September against Syria, such an entity, with all those characteristics and more, had no right to go on lying without shame.

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