Disarmament

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa will convene a workshop on 5 and 6 June in Lomé, Togo, to assist Portuguese-speaking States in preparing their initial reports pursuant to Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-State actors.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, are jointly organizing an international workshop on information and cybersecurity in Beijing, on 5 and 6 June.

On 3 June 2013, the Arms Trade Treaty was opened for signature in New York. Since then, 118 States have signed this historic treaty that sets common international standards for the regulation of the global arms trade.

The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific is cooperating with the Government of Myanmar to organize a two-day workshop in Nay Pyi Taw on 15 and 16 May to assist Government agencies involved in small arms and light weapons control, in order to effectively implement the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons.

The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons will hold discussions on lethal autonomous weapons systems from 13 to 16 May at the United Nations in Geneva, with the record attendance expected from representatives of States, United Nations entities, the International Committee of the Red Cross and non-governmental organizations.

A decade after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004),Governments around the world are working hard to implement its requirements, with Member States having enacted a large number of relevant laws and deployed a wide range of appropriate measures.

United Nations Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas will be coming to Headquarters for the launch of a book entitled Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do! on 15 April from 11 to 11:45 a.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium.

The Government of South Africa will host a workshop in Pretoria from 10 to 11 April — facilitated by the Institute for Security Studies, with support from the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa — to assist English-speaking States in preparing their initial reports pursuant to Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-State actors.