Disarmament

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:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Elbio Rosselli (Uruguay):

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the nuclear test announced by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in New York today:

NEW YORK, 21 December 2015 (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The three-member leadership panel of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, led by its Head, Virginia Gamba, was in Damascus on 17 December for meetings with the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic.

NEW YORK, 11 December 2015 (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The United Nations and the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic signed the status of mission agreement of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism in New York this morning.  With the status of mission agreement, the Syrian Government agreed to provide support to the Mechanism to conduct its activities in accordance with Security Council resolution 2235 (2015).