Disarmament

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, at a seminar on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, in Reykjavik, today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, in New York today:

The third annual International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Tests will be observed on 26 September at United Nations Headquarters. 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, observed on 26 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the eighth ministerial meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), in New York today:

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Government of Kyrgyzstan, with the assistance of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, are jointly organizing a national round-table meeting to review the National Implementation Action Plan (NIAP) on the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard van Bohemen (New Zealand):

NEW YORK, 8 September (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The Government of Samoa and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) are jointly organizing a workshop on building capacity for the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty in the Pacific, in Apia, Samoa, from 13 to 15 September 2016.  The workshop is made possible with financial support from the Governments of Australia and New Zealand.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: