CONCERNED ABOUT HIGH-ALERT STATUS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL

FOR DECREASE IN OPERATIONAL READINESS, BY NEW DRAFT APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE

Recognizing Threat to Civil Aviation, Security Posed by ‘MANPADS’ Illicit Use,

APPROVING 15 DRAFTS, FIRST COMMITTEE URGES ALL STATES TO REMAIN SEIZED ‘AT HIGHEST

POLITICAL LEVEL’ OF NEED TO OPERATIONALIZE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY

Other Texts Included Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere,

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

21^st & 22^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

19^th & 20^th Meetings (PM)

 ‘LOOPHOLES’ IN SMALL ARMS NORMS MUST BE CLOSED, AS ILLICIT WEAPONS WEAKEN STATE

STABILITY, DESTROY ECONOMIC FABRIC, KILL HUNDREDS DAILY, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

18^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

17^th Meeting (AM)

RUSSIAN FEDERATION , UNITED STATES CALL ON STATES TO JOIN TREATY REGIME REJECTING

INTERMEDIATE-RANGE, SHORTER-RANGE MISSILES, IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

16^th Meeting (AM)

DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TACKLES BROAD RANGE OF ITEMS, INCLUDING CLUSTER MUNITIONS,

SMALL ARMS, LANDMINES, VERIFICATION OF ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT TREATIES

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

14^th & 15^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

13^th Meeting (AM)

UNITED STATES SAYS DISCUSSING MERITS OF TREATIES TO PREVENT ‘WEAPONIZATION’

OF OUTER SPACE ‘POINTLESS’, AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONTINUES THEMATIC DEBATES

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)