States Parties Set to Examine the Operation of the Biological Weapons Convention and Chart its Course for the Next Five Years Representatives of the 165 States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention will meet in Geneva from 5 to 22 December 2011 for the seventh five-yearly review of the…

Office for Disarmament Affairs Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit Supports International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition Members of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Implementation Support Unit (ISU) from the Office for Disarmament Affairs will take part…

The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concludes its 2011 session this week. The first plenary session began on 25 January and it officially ends on Friday 16 September. Addressing the Conference on 26 January, the…

Hears address by Cuba’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning, which marked the first under the presidency of Cuba. The Conference also heard an address by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, and welcomed participants of the…

The 2011 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…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2011 session on Tuesday, 25 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Canada. The presidency of the Conference…