PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE

TO HOLD THIRD SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 19 – 30 MARCH

‘KA HOA TE RANGATAHI:  A PACIFIC WAY TO DISARMAMENT’ TO CONVENE

IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, 27 - 30 MARCH

NEW YORK, 13 March (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- Representatives from government, academic and research institutes and non-governmental organizations, mainly from the South Pacific, will attend a first-time four-day regional disarmament meeting in the South Pacific in Wellington, New Zealand, from 27 to 30 March 2001.

CONFERENCE ON FACILITATING ENTRY INTO FORCE OF COMPREHENSIVE

NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY AT HEADQUARTERS, 25-27 SEPTEMBER

ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING ON DISARMAMENT

IN KATHMANDU, 9 - 11 MARCH

NEW YORK, 2 March (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -– The Department for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, will convene the thirteenth regional disarmament meeting in Kathmandu from 9 to 11 March 2001.  The theme of this year’s meeting will be “Prospects for further confidence-building”.

111 STATES RATIFIED CONVENTION ON ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES,

BELGIUM TELLS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

No Consensus on Work Programme Consultations Says President

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS STATEMENTS FROM MYANMAR, NEW ZEALAND,

MALAYSIA, SWEDEN, CHINA, UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

(Reissued as received.)

AD HOC GROUP OF STATES PARTIES TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

CONVENTION OPENS TWENTY-SECOND SESSION

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT OPENS 2001 SESSION

Secretary-General Urges Conference

To Take Firm Action to Reach Consensus on Work Programme

(Reissued as received.)

Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 the Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

24^th Meeting (PM)

SMALL ARMS PREPARATORY COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT CONFERENCE AGENDA

CORRECTION

On page 2 of Press Release DC/2748 issued 18 January, the statement of Irena Mernik (Slovenia) should read, as follows:

Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 The Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 And Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

26^th Meeting (AM)* and Round-up