News Items
UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and Caribbean Launches Arms Trade Treaty Implementation Course
UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and Caribbean (UNLIREC) Launches Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Implementation Course. View News Item Source> [source: UNODA]
Speakers in First Committee Question Rationale for Nuclear Weapons Retention
Speakers in First Committee Question Rationale for Nuclear Weapons Retention, Say Thwarting Conventional Arms Flows ‘Weakest Link’ in Control Efforts. View News Item Source> [source: UNODA]
Winning ‘Battle of Ideas’ First Step in Long, Hard Fight to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told during Wide-Ranging Debate
Winning ‘Battle of Ideas’ First Step in Long, Hard Fight to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told during Wide-Ranging Debate. View News Item Source> [source: UNODA]
Nuclear Weapons Not Used Since 1945, But World ‘Cannot Rely on Luck Indefinitely’
Nuclear Weapons Not Used Since 1945, But World 'Cannot Rely on Luck Indefinitely', First Committee Hears, as Speakers Grapple with Profound Implications. View News Item Source> [source: UN]
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Fellowship Programme of 2014 Begins Final Segment at Headquarters
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Fellowship Programme of 2014 Begins Final Segment at Headquarters. View News Item Source> [source: UNODA]
High Representative’s remarks on the New Zealand Lectures on Disarmament
High Representative Angela Kane's remarks on the New Zealand Lectures on Disarmament. View News Item Source> [source: UNODA]
High Representative’s Opening Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly
High Representative Angela Kane's Opening Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly. View News Item Source> [source: UNODA]
The New Zealand Lectures on Disarmament
On Monday 7 October 2014, on the sidelines of the first day of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations organized a High Level Discussion to mark the launch of… [source: UNODA]
Secretary-General’s message on the International Day of Non-Violence
Secretary-General's message on the International Day of Non-Violence. View News Item Source> [source: UN]
Myanmar set to ratify Biological Weapons Convention
Minister for Foreign Affairs Wunna Maung Lwin told the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday that Parliament had approved the government’s proposal to ratify the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) of 1972. Parliament approved the country's accession to the convention… [source: Eleven (Myanmar)]