5 years 6 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HOLDS ITS LAST SESSION UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF NIGERIA (French only)
19 February 2016
Meeting Summaries
La Conférence du désarmement a tenu, ce matin, sa dernière séance plénière sous présidence nigériane, en entendant les interventions du Pakistan, de l’Inde, de l’Autriche, du Brésil et du Zimbabwe.
Le Président de la Conférence, M. Peters Omologbe Emuze, chargé d’affaires à la Mission permanente du Nigéria auprès des Nations Unies à Genève, a indiqué que le projet de décision pour l’établissement d’un programme de travail qu’il a soumis aux membres de cette instance et qui figure dans le document CD/WP.594 n’était toujours pas prêt à être…
5 years 6 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DISCUSSES PROPOSED PROGRAMME OF WORK
16 February 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament met this morning to discuss a draft programme of work, as proposed by Nigeria, the President of the Conference.
Peters Emuze, Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria and President of the Conference on Disarmament, said that the previous week he had shared a draft proposal of a programme of work for the 2016 session. Over the previous several weeks, he had held extensive consultations with delegates, all with the view of finding a roadmap towards breaking the logjam.
The new Ambassador of Iraq stated that a way had to be found to…
5 years 6 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DISCUSSES CURRENT RELEVANT ISSUES AND METHODS OF WORK
09 February 2016
Meeting Summaries
Hears General Statements Condemning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Recent Launch Using Ballistic Missile Technology
The Conference on Disarmament met this morning to discuss issues of relevance to the Conference. The recent launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea using ballistic missile technology, one month after carrying out a nuclear test, was at the heart of today’s statements.
The Netherlands on behalf of the European Union, Republic of Korea, Ireland, France, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Italy, Canada, New…
5 years 6 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DISCUSSES THE WAY FORWARD TOWARDS ADOPTING A PROGRAMME OF WORK
02 February 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard general statements by a number of delegations, and discussed the way forward towards adopting a programme of work.
Peters Emuze, Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria and President of the Conference on Disarmament, said that consultations on a programme of work had shown that some countries favoured the constitution of an informal working group while some others favoured an informal debate on the core issues. Delegations had underlined the need for all…
5 years 6 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT OPENS 2016 SESSION, HEARS MESSAGE FROM UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON
26 January 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament today opened its 2016 session, hearing a message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and broad condemnation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s recent nuclear test.
In the message, which was delivered by Kim Won-Soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, the Secretary-General regretted the lack of progress achieved by the Conference and its inability to negotiate. As a result, two goals he had outlined almost a decade ago had become more urgent than ever. First…
5 years 6 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT TO HOLD FIRST PUBLIC PLENARY OF 2016 SESSION ON TUESDAY, 26 JANUARY
21 January 2016
Press Release
The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2016 session on Tuesday, 26 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The session will open under the presidency of Nigeria. The presidency of the Conference rotates among its Member States according to the English alphabetical order, with each president holding office for four working weeks. Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland and the Republic of Korea will also hold the presidency during 2016. The three parts of…
5 years 7 months ago
2015 MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION CONCLUDES
21 December 2015
Meeting Summaries
States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) have concluded the 2015 Meeting of States Parties (MSP), held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 14 to 18 December. The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Mazlan Muhammad of Malaysia with the support of Ambassador Henk Cor van der Kwast of the Netherlands, and Ambassador György Molnár of Hungary, as Vice-Chairs.
The conclusion of the MSP marks the end of the fourth and last year of the current intersessional programme mandated by the Seventh BWC Review Conference in 2011. Next year will see…
5 years 8 months ago
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO CONVENE IN GENEVA FROM 14 TO 18 DECEMBER 2015
11 December 2015
Meeting Summaries
The 2015 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 14 to 18 December 2015. Formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, the Convention was the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban an entire category of weapons. It was opened for signature in 1972 and entered into force in 1975, meaning that the BWC is celebrating its…
5 years 8 months ago
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO MEET TO ASSESS PROGRESS IN THE FIGHT TO ELIMINATE ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES
26 November 2015
Meeting Summaries
Representatives of 162 States parties and dozens of international and civil society organizations will gather in Geneva from 30 November to 4 December 2015 for the Fourteenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (“Ottawa Convention” or Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention).
The meeting will see States addressing challenges faced in implementing the Convention and the Maputo Action Plan - a five-year road-map to…
5 years 9 months ago
CCW MEETING TAKES FORWARD MANDATE ON LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS SYSTEMS AND PAVES THE WAY FOR 2016 FIFTH REVIEW CONFERENCE
17 November 2015
Meeting Summaries
States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons(CCW)[1] completed a week of conferences on Friday, 13 November, where one of the key issues before States parties was Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), which has been the subject of intense discussion over the past two years within the CCW.
The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha of Sri Lanka.
In welcoming the decision on the 2016 mandate on LAWS, Ambassador Aryasinha said “LAWS if developed could be a major game changer in how…
