Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

15^th Meeting (AM)

HUGE, SOPHISTICATED CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRADE FLOURISHING IN MORAL, LEGAL

VACUUM, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD IN CONTINUED DEBATE

 

Speakers also Address Illicit Small Arms Trade,

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

14^th Meeting (AM)

REDUCTION OF NUCLEAR ARSENALS VERIFICATION, CLUSTER MUNITIONS,

AMONG ISSUES RAISED, AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

13^th Meeting (PM)

SMALL ARMS TRAFFIC FUELS CONFLICTS, UNDERMINES STABILITY, DEVELOPMENT

FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD IN CONTINUED DEBATE

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

Canada seeks treaty to prevent illicit flow of small arms to conflict areas

As assembly’s disarmament committee receives range of new texts

Implementation of Existing Agreements also Discussed;

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

11^th Meeting (PM)

SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN OUTER SPACE LINKED TO NATIONAL SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT;

INACTION COULD LEAD TO WEAPONIZATION OF SPACE, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

JAPAN INTRODUCES DRAFT ON ‘RENEWED DETERMINATION TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS’,

IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR WEAPON TEST BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

7^th & 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran defend nuclear programmes

in United Nations disarmament committee

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

THOUSANDS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON HIGH ALERT MAKES MOCKERY OF DISARMAMENT PROGRESS,

WITH NON-PROLIFERATION THREATENED BY LOPSIDED APPROACH, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD

World Risks Return To Unregulated Competition

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

UNITED STATES TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE 2006 ‘WATERSHED’, AS SECURITY COUNCIL,

AFTER LONG DELAY, TAKES UP THREATS POSED BY IRAN, NORTH KOREA

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

JAPAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA URGE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

 

TO REFRAIN FROM NUCLEAR WEAPON TEST, IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE

Double Standards in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime,