Disarmament

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):

NEW YORK, 16 March (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The United Nations Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) is calling for applications for rapid response funding to emergency situations in the field of weapons management.

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

The Head of the United Nations-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism, Virginia Gamba, is pleased to announce that the European Union has donated €4.6 million to be divided equally between the Mechanism and OPCW Special Missions in Syria.

NEW YORK, 8 March (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, in cooperation with the Government of Thailand, will organize a national workshop on “Building Capacity in Small Arms and Light Weapons Control through the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all Its Aspects and the Arms Trade Treaty” from 9 to 10 March, in Bangkok. 

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: