Background Release

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR THE 2005 NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

REVIEW CONFERENCE TO MEET IN GENEVA 28 APRIL – 9 MAY

Disarmament Commission

2003 Substantive Session

256^th Meeting (PM)

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION CONCLUDES SESSION WITHOUT PROPOSALS

TO ADVANCE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, CONFIDENCE-BUILDING

Disarmament Commission

2003 Substantive Session

254^th & 255^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WORLD ORDER BASED ON EFFECTIVE ARMS CONTROL, REJECTION OF UNILATERAL USE

OF FORCE CALLED FOR IN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION

Disarmament Commission

2003 Substantive Session

252^nd & 253^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

‘CREEPING RETREAT’ FROM NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, INCREASED PROLIFERATION RISK

AMONG ISSUES STRESSED, AS DISARMAMENT COMMISSION OPENS SESSION

DEBATE ON IRAQ WAR ERUPTS IN CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

Conference Holds Final Plenary of First Part of 2003 Session

(Reissued as received.)

FIVE COUNTRIES SPEAK BEFORE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

Egypt Calls for Fair Application

of Disarmament Resolutions throughout Middle East

(Reissued as received.)

EXPERT REVIEW OF REGISTER OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS AT HEADQUARTERS, 17-21 MARCH

NEW YORK, 17 March (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- A group of governmental experts on the continuing operation and further development of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms is holding its first meeting for the year from 17 to 21 March at United Nations Headquarters.  This is the fourth review of the Register; previous reviews were conducted in 1994, 1997 and 2000.

Conference on Illicit Small Arms Trade in South-Eastern Europe concludes

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS OFFER BY KENYA TO HOST 2004 REVIEW CONFERENCE

ON CONVENTION PROHIBITING MINES

Conference Expresses Condolences

Over Assassination of Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro

(Reissued as received.)

TheUnited Nations, OSCE TO HOLD Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms

AND LIGHT Weapons in South-Eastern Europe, 11-12 MARCH, IN SLOVENIA