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Disarmament

SC/12367-DC/3633

Statement on Special Meeting for 2016 Comprehensive Review to Monitor Global Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) is a key instrument in global efforts to prevent non-State actors, in particular terrorists, from threatening society with weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, chemical or biological.  The resolution does this by requiring States to adopt laws with penalties that make such actions criminal, whether undertaken directly or by financing or assisting them; and by requiring States to implement wide-ranging domestic controls designed to keep weapons of mass destruction or the means to produce them out of the hands of non-State actors.

DC/3631

Joint Investigative Mechanism for Syria Visits Damascus

The investigators of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, pursuant to Security Council resolution 2235 (2015), visited Damascus last week.

SG/SM/17739-DC/3632

Regional Actors Should Use Creative Cooperation to Tackle Emerging Weapons Threats from Terrorists, Cyberattackers, Secretary-General Tells NATO Conference

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary-General United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction Arms Control, Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation, in Ljubljana today:

DC/3625

Joint Investigative Mechanism for Syria Visits Germany, Iran

The Leadership Panel of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, pursuant to Security Council resolution 2235 (2015), completed visits to Berlin and Tehran.