Disarmament

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:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council at the open debate on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day against Nuclear Tests, observed on 29 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, today:

NEW YORK, 6 August (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated by Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) to identify those responsible for the use of chemicals as weapons in Syria, visited Damascus this week.  The Leadership Panel met with Syria’s relevant Government and other officials to discuss matters pertaining to the Mechanism’s mandate.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC), in New York today:

The Russian Federation hosted a training course for the national Points of Contact of participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) region for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) in Kaliningrad from 28 June to 1 July.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President François Delattre (France):