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Disarmament and Arms Control Treaties
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Statements at the First Committee of the General Assembly

Date	Title
30 October, 2015	UN General Assembly, First Committee – Other Disarmament Measures and International Security
26 October, 2015	UN General Assembly, First Committee – Thematic Debate on Conventional Weapons
14 October, 2015	UN General Assembly, First Committee – General Debate
20 October, 2014	UN General Assembly, First Committee – Thematic Debate on Nuclear Weapons
30 October, 2013	UN General Assembly, First Committee – Thematic Debate on Other Disarmament Measures and International Security
21 October, 2013	UN General Assembly, First Committee – Thematic Debate: Nuclear Weapons – New Zealand on behalf of Singapore and others on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons
9 October, 2013	UN General Assembly, First Committee – General Debate – Myanmar on behalf of the ASEAN Member States
8 October, 2009	UN General Assembly, First Committee – General Debate

Disarmament and Arms Control Treaties

Weapons of Mass Destruction
Treaty	Treaty’s Entry into Force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Antarctic Treaty	23.06.1961
Bangkok Treaty: Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone	27.03.1997		27.03.1997
BTWC: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction	26.03.1975		02.12.1975
CANWFZ: Treaty on the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia	21.03.2009
CPPNM: Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	08.02.1987			22.09.2014
CPPNM 2005 Amendment	08.05.2016		22.10.2014
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	Not yet entered into force		10.11.2001
CWC: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction	29.04.1997		21.05.1997
Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare	08.02.1928
ICSANT: International Convention for the Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism	07.07.2007	01.12.2006	02.08.2017
NPT: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons	05.03.1970		10.03.1976
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water	10.10.1963			12.07.1968
Treaty of Rarotonga: South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty	11.12.1986
Sea-Bed Treaty: Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof	18.05.1972		10.09.1976

Conventional Weapons
Treaty	Treaty’s Entry into Force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
ATT: Arms Trade Treaty	24.12.2014	05.12.2014
CCM: The Convention on Cluster Munitions	01.08.2010
CCW: 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	02.12.1983
CCW Amendment Article 1	18.05.2004
CCW protocol I: Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments	02.12.1983
CCW protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices	02.12.1983
CCW Amended Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices	03.12.1998
CCW Protocol III: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons	02.12.1983
CCW Protocol IV: Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons	30.07.1998
CCW Protocol V: Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War	12.11.2006
The Hague Declaration (IV,3): Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets	04.09.1900
Mine Ban Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction	01.03.1999
St. Petersburg Declaration: Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight	11.12.1868

Other
Treaty	Treaty’s Entry into Force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
ENMOD: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques	05.10.1978
Treaty on Open Skies	01.01.2002
Outer Space Treaty: Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies	10.10.1967			10.09.1976
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Programme of Action

United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA)

National PoA Report (latest): 2016 [English]

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