Disarmament

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

A seminar for African parliamentarians on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 22-23 February.

NEW YORK, 22 February 2016 (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The Security Council considered the first report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations (OPCW)-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism this morning, pursuant to resolution 2235 (2015).

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño (Venezuela):

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

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, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Conference on Disarmament, in Geneva today:

NEW YORK, 20 January (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The Government of Myanmar, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), hosted its first National Round Table on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) on 19-20 January.

The Disarmament Commission elected the Chair for its 2016 substantive session today, and reviewed the provisional agenda for the second year of its three-year cycle, to be held from 4 to 21 April.

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