Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for the meeting of Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), in Hiroshima today:
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific commenced a project on strengthening the national capacity of Maldives to implement the United Nations Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Arms Trade Treaty.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for the 2015 International Children’s Peace Forum, in Nagasaki City today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the sixty-fourth session of his Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, in New York on 30 June:
NEW YORK, 30 June (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementation Assistance Centre (RACVIAC), in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, hosted a seminar on Voluntary National Implementation Action Plans for United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization at the Science and Technology Conference, in Vienna, 22-26 June:
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.
