Experts Consider Responses in the Case of Alleged Use of Biological Weapons The 2010 Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was held in Geneva from 23 to 27 August 2010. The Meeting was held to discuss and promote common understanding and effective…

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today: I am delighted that the Convention on Cluster Munitions enters into force on 1August2010. This new instrument is a major advance for the global disarmament and humanitarian agendas, and will help us to counter the…

Concludes First Part of 2010 Session The Conference on Disarmament, which finishes the first part of its 2010 session this week, heard addresses this morning from Laura Kennedy, the new Permanent Representative of the United States, and from Canada. Croatia also made a statement on behalf of an…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2010 session on Tuesday, 19 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Ambassador Abdul Hannan of Bangladesh.…

Workshop in Riyadh to Focus on Effective National Implementation of Biological Weapons Convention in Member States of Gulf Cooperation Council The Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit (ISU) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will jointly host a…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted its annual report to the General Assembly by consensus and closed the work of its 2009 substantive session, which officially ends this Friday, 18 September. The major achievement of the Conference this year was the adoption of decision CD/1864 on…

To mark the start of the second half of the Secretary-General’s 100-day “WMD-We Must Disarm” countdown campaign to the International Day of Peace on 21 September, the United Nations has launched a competition to find the best short film on the issue of nuclear disarmament and/or non-proliferation.…

The conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) more than a decade ago was an important milestone in norm-setting and marked a significant achievement in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation. But for too long, it has not been brought into force. The price is high. There…

At its plenary meeting today, under the Presidency of Ambassador Jazaïry (Algeria), the Conference on Disarmament adopted, by consensus, its Programme of Work for 2009. This action has ended over ten years of efforts to resume the substantive work of the Conference, which came to a hold in 1999…

The Meeting of Experts of the States Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will take place from 22 to 24 April 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Meeting of Experts constitutes the key integral part of the…