Disarmament

Press Release
DC/2690

SYMPOSIUM MARKS TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

Press Release
DCF/393

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES FIRST PART OF YEAR 2000 SESSION; SPEAKERS DECRY CONTINUING STALEMATE ON STARTING SUBSTANTIVE WORK

GENEVA, 23 March (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament completed this morning the first part of its 2000 session with Member States expressing concern about the forum's continued inability to reach agreement on a work programme.

Press Release
DC/2688

AD HOC GROUP OF STATES PARTIES TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION TO HOLD NINETEENTH SESSION 13-31 MARCH

Press Release
DCF/392

FOREIGN MINISTERS OF UKRAINE, NORWAY ADDRESS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

Conference Hears Statement from Annual International Women's Day Seminar

(Reissued as received.)

Press Release
DC/2687/Rev.1*

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2001 SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE CONCLUDES FIRST SESSION, DEFERS DECISION ON DATE, VENUE

The Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects decided to defer its decision on the dates and venue of the Conference until the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, as the Committee concluded its first session on Friday, 3 March.

Press Release
DC/2687

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2001 SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE CONCLUDES FIRST SESSION, DEFERS DECISION ON DATE, VENUE

The Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects this evening, 3 March, decided to defer its decision on the dates and venue of the Conference until the 2000 session of the General Assembly, as the Committee concluded its first session.

Press Release
DC/2685

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2001 SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE ELECTS VICE-CHAIRMEN, RAPPORTEUR

The Preparatory Committee for the 2001 United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects this afternoon elected 10 additional Vice-Chairmen and its Rapporteur.

Press Release
DC/2681/

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2001 CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE

CORRECTION

On page 4 of Press Release DC/2681 issued 28 February, the statement of the representative of Algeria should read, as follows:

Press Release
DC/2684

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR UN CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS TRADE CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE

The representative of Sierra Leone this morning called for a ban on the sale of small arms and light weapons to countries sharing contiguous borders with areas of conflicts, as the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons concluded it general debate .

Press Release
DC/2683

SPEAKERS IN PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2001 SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE CALL FOR RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS OF STATES TO SELF-DEFENCE

As the Preparatory Committee for the 2001 Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons continued its general debate this afternoon, several speakers called for the recognition of sovereign rights of States to self-defence, as enshrined in the United Nations Charter