From 13 to 17 April 2015, the States parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW[1]) held intense discussions at the United Nations in Geneva on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) in a Second Meeting of Experts devoted to this subject. Presiding over the Meeting of Experts…

Delivered by Mr. Michael Moller, Acting Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament It gives me great pleasure to greet the Conference on Disarmament as it opens its session for 2015. The need for progress in multilateral disarmament is greater than ever. Increasing tension and instability…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2015 session on Tuesday, 20 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Mexico. The presidency of the…

Adopts annual report to the United Nations General Assembly The Conference on Disarmament adopted its annual report to the United Nations General Assembly and concluded its 2014 session in a public plenary today. The session officially ends on Friday 12 September. Ambassador Mazlan Muhammad of…

GENEVA - The United Nations Group of Governmental Experts, which has been tasked to make recommendations on possible aspects that could contribute to but not negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, will meet for the first…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2014 session on Tuesday, 21 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will address the plenary. The session…

Zambia has deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), bringing the total membership of the Convention to 117 States parties. The accession ceremony took place during this year’s Treaty Event organized by the United Nations in New York under the…

The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concluded its 2013 session in a public plenary today. The session officially ends tomorrow, Friday 13 September. In a message to the Conference on 22 January - read out by the…

The 2013 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 25 Member States of the United Nations. The programme will last for a period of nine weeks. Diplomats from the following 25 Member…

Third Meeting of a New Intersessional Work Programme The 2013 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Meeting of Experts will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 12 to 16 August. The BWC prohibits the development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. The 2013…