A Group of Experts established by the States Parties to Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will convene on 20 and 21 April 2009 at the Palais des Nations in…

The Second 2009 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) will convene from 14…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2009 session on Tuesday, 20 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Ambassador Le Hoai Trung of Viet Nam.…

States Parties Agree on Common Understandings and to Promote Effective Action on Measures to Improve Biosafety and Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness Raising, and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention took place from 1 to 5 December 2008 in…

States Parties to Promote Effective Action on Biosafety, Biosecurity, Oversight, Education, Awareness-raising and Codes of Conduct The Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) for 2008 will be held in the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1 to 5 December. Chaired…

The Second Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is being held on 10 and 11 November 2008 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Edvardas Borisovas of Lithuania was designated by…

Negotiations to Focus on New Instrument on Cluster Munitions Negotiations on a new instrument on cluster munitions by a Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted its annual report to the General Assembly and closed the work of its 2008 substantive session, which officially ends this Friday, 12 September. In concluding remarks at its final meeting, Ambassador German Mundarain Hernandez of Venezuela,…

The Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) continued its efforts last week to "negotiate a proposal to address urgently the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions, while striking a balance between military and humanitarian considerations", a mandate…

The Fourth 2008 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) will convene from 1…