The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will virtually hold the first public plenary of its 2021 session on Tuesday, 19 January, during which it will hear a statement by Tatiana Valovaya, Secretary-General of the Conference on…

  La Conférence du désarmement, unique instance multilatérale pour les négociations sur le désarmement, a clos aujourd’hui les travaux de sa session de 2020 en adoptant son rapport annuel à l’Assemblée générale (document CD/WP.629/Rev.5). Comme à l’accoutumée, cette session annuelle s’est…

  Le développement de nouvelles armes telles que les drones risque d’accroître la course aux armements, est-il souligné   La Conférence du désarmement a tenu ce matin une séance plénière publique consacrée aux nouvelles armes de destruction massive, au cours de laquelle de nombreuses…

  La Conférence du désarmement, qui doit clore le 18 septembre prochain les travaux de sa session annuelle, a tenu ce matin sa première séance plénière publique sous la présidence du Bélarus. Les débats de cette séance ont porté sur la préparation du rapport annuel de la Conférence sur sa…

  The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon held the last plenary meeting under the presidency of Bangladesh, during which it heard statements by Austria, United Kingdom, Mexico, Syria, Iran and Belarus. In the discussion, some speakers said it was in the shared interest of all States to…

Observes Minute of Silence to Pay Tribute to Victims of the Explosion in Lebanon and of the COVID-19 Pandemic     The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning under the presidency of Bangladesh, during which it heard a statement by Tatiana Valovaya, Secretary-…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2020 session on Tuesday, 21 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the Presidency of Algeria. The Presidency of the…

The Conference on Disarmament today concluded the third and last part of its 2019 session. The first part of the session was held from 21 January to 29 March. The second part was held from 13 May to 28 June. The third part started on 29 July and concluded today, 13 September. During the session…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted its 2019 annual report to the General Assembly Ambassador Taonga Mushayavanhu of Zimbabwe, President of the Conference on Disarmament, said that it was an honour to be presiding over their last plenary meeting of the 2019 session of the…

In the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the annual Amended Protocol II Group of Experts meeting took place on 22 August, and the Protocol V Meeting of Experts on 23 August 2019. The CCW is a key instrument of international humanitarian law seeking to ban or…