Disarmament

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):

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

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.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mary Soliman, Acting Director, Geneva Branch, Office for Disarmament Affairs, to the Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for an event marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, in New York today:

NEW YORK, 30 August 2016 (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The Security Council considered the third report (document S/2016/738) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)‑United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, pursuant to resolution 2235 (2015). 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Building a Nuclear-Free World Conference, in Astana today: