Disarmament

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Volodymyr Yelchenko (Ukraine):

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the opening of the 2017 session of the Conference on Disarmament, in Geneva today:

NEW YORK, 19 January (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific has launched a project to assist the Philippines in strengthening its national capacity to control transfers of small arms and light weapons, with a view to preventing their illicit trade and diversion.

NEW YORK, 3 January (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the World Customs Organization have agreed on a memorandum of understanding to formalize existing cooperation.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Security Council open debate on stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-State actors, in New York, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of United Nations Office at Geneva, to the fifth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in Geneva today:

The “International Conference in Nagasaki — Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons” will take place in Nagasaki, Japan, from 11 to 14 December.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in New York today: 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, in Santiago today: