NEW YORK, 17 June (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — A workshop on capacity-building for the Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Arms Trade Treaty jointly organized by the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific is taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 and 18 June.
NEW YORK, 3 June (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The Government of Jordan, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, hosted a regional workshop on the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) for member States of the League of Arab States.
Twelve of the eighteen former members of the Group of Experts that supports the work of the Security Council’s 1540 Committee concluded a two-day meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. It was organized by South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.
GENEVA, 27 May (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — Algeria has become the 121st State Party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
After weeks of intense debate, States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) concluded the month-long 2015 Review Conference this evening, unable to reach consensus on an outcome text that would have delineated steps to speed progress on nuclear disarmament, advance non-proliferation and work towards a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council’s open debate on small arms and light weapons, held in New York on 13 May:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Virginia Gamba, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the launch of the Global Zero Action Corps, today, in Washington, D.C.:
Fervent calls by survivors and activists for genuine and sustained efforts towards the abolition of nuclear weapons dominated the 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) today, as non-governmental organizations addressed delegates at Headquarters.
Considering that there were enough nuclear weapons to put an end to the whole planet in minutes without anyone or anything able to help, nuclear doctrines were therefore “doctrines of death” in which “all were losers,” the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference heard today during its fourth day of deliberations.
