GENEVA, 12 February (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard proposals to create an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament and to reappoint a special coordinator on the question of anti-personnel landmines.
GENEVA, 5 February (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements from Egypt, Syria, Romania and Iran which raised issues related to anti-personnel landmines and nuclear disarmament.
GENEVA, 3 February (UN Information Service) -- The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, Alexander Downer, today urged the Conference on Disarmament to focus its work on a fissile material cut-off treaty and a ban on anti-personnel landmines.
GENEVA, 27 January (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard a statement by Bangladesh supporting the proposal made by South Africa at the opening session last week for the establishment of an ad-hoc committee on nuclear disarmament.
GENEVA, 20 January (UN Information Service) -- Disarmament was of central importance to the global agenda, and the United Nations had an essential role and primary responsibility in that field, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message to the opening of the first part of the 1998 session of the Conference on Disarmament this morning.
GENEVA, 16 January (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will open its 1998 session on Tuesday, 20 January at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
