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First Committee

8 October 2009

GA/DIS/3387

Exploiting Renewed Focus on Nuclear Disarmament Requires Political Will, Reversal of Past Policies, Understanding New Dynamics Among Nations, First Committee Told

In the face of the continued existence and spread of nuclear weapons by nuclear Powers, the world could profit from the current attention to nuclear disarmament only from sincere political will, real change in past policies and respect for disarmament obligations, and understanding of the new dynamics among nations, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today.

7 October 2009

GA/DIS/3386

For First Time in Years, Notion of Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Supported by Leaders of All Major Industrialized Countries, Disarmament Committee Hears in Debate

Highlighting the positive climate that had emerged for progress towards achieving the goal of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, the representative of the Russian Federation today told the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) that it was noteworthy that, for the first time in recent years, the idea of a non-nuclear-weapon world had near-unanimous support from the leaders of all major industrialized countries.

6 October 2009

GA/DIS/3385

One Nuclear Weapon Exploded in One Major City Could Kill Hundreds of Thousands; No Single Nation Could Halt Spread Alone, United States Tells First Committee

Just one nuclear weapon exploded in one major city could kill hundreds of thousands and destabilize society, economies and ways of life, and halting their spread and preventing nuclear terrorism should be a shared responsibility because no single nation, no matter how powerful, could do that alone, the United States representative told the Disarmament Committee today.

5 October 2009

GA/DIS/3384

Disarmament Remains ‘Burning Problem of Our Time’, But Today’s World Capable of Solving Problem, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee as Debate Opens

With some 23,000 nuclear weapons reportedly still in existence, thousands of missiles and bombers to deliver them, weapons of mass destruction treaties short of universal membership and a large and growing agenda for conventional arms control, it was very difficult to dispute that achievement of the disarmament goals remained “the burning problem of our time”, Sergio Duarte, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, told the Disarmament Committee.

1 October 2009

GA/DIS/3383

Disarmament Committee Prepares for Start of General Debate on Monday, 5 October, with Adoption of Agenda, Work Programme, in Brief Organizational Meeting

The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), in a brief organizational meeting today, adopted its agenda and programme of work for the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly.

14 July 2009

GA/DIS/3381

First Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Fourth General Assembly Session

The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), in its last meeting of the current session, met this morning to fill the remaining vacancies on its Bureau for the upcoming sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly. The Committee elected by acclamation Hossam Aly ( Egypt), Hilario G. Davide, Jr. (Philippines), Florian Laudi (Germany) as Vice-Chairmen, and Tetyana Pokhval’ona (Ukraine) as Rapporteur for the Assembly session.

31 October 2008

GA/DIS/3380

FIRST COMMITTEE ASKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ENCOURAGE STATES TO ENSURE IRONCLAD INTERNAL CONTROLS TO PREVENT DIVERSION OF LEGAL WEAPONS TO ILLICIT MARKET

31 October 2008

	General AssemblyGA/DIS/3380

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

First Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

FIRST COMMITTEE ASKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ENCOURAGE STATES TO ENSURE IRONCLAD

INTERNAL CONTROLS TO PREVENT DIVERSION OF LEGAL WEAPONS TO ILLICIT MARKET