In progress at UNHQ

First Committee


GA/DIS/3334
25 October 2006
General AssemblyGA/DIS/3334
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

20th Meeting (PM)


DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT REAFFIRMING URGENCY OF PREVENTING


OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE, NEED FOR REINFORCING EXISTING LEGAL REGIME


21 Draft Resolutions Recommended to General Assembly;

GA/DIS/3332
20 October 2006
General AssemblyGA/DIS/3332
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

18th Meeting (AM)


DISARMAMENT FAILURES REVEAL SERIOUS EROSION IN CONSENSUS ON MOST CRITICAL


ISSUES –- NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION -– FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD


15 Draft Resolutions Introduced; Disarmament and Development,

GA/DIS/3329
17 October 2006
General AssemblyGA/DIS/3329
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

15th Meeting (AM)


HUGE, SOPHISTICATED CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRADE FLOURISHING IN MORAL, LEGAL


VACUUM, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD IN CONTINUED DEBATE

 


Speakers also Address Illicit Small Arms Trade,

GA/DIS/3326
12 October 2006
General AssemblyGA/DIS/3326
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

12th Meeting (PM)


Canada seeks treaty to prevent illicit flow of small arms to conflict areas


As assembly’s disarmament committee receives range of new texts


Implementation of Existing Agreements also Discussed;