The UNODA High Representative, Mr. Kim Won-soo, delivered a statement to the plenary session of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Read the statement here
The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, gave remarks at planting ceremony of the second-generation Hibakusha tree. Read the remarks here.
Information about the First Committee of the 71st General Assembly on Disarmament and International Security, including press releases, draft resolutions, statements, Secretary-General’s reports, and side events, is available here.
The UNODA High Representative, Mr. Kim Won-soo, delivered a statement to the High-Level Meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Read the statement here.
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General gave remarks to the high level plenary meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Read the remarks here.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, issued a message on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Read the message here.
The third annual International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Tests will be observed on 26 September at United Nations Headquarters. The 2016 observance will be marked by a one-day high-level plenary meeting to be convened by Peter Thomson (Fiji), President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly
On September 16, 2016, high school students from New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki came together to learn peace lessons from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Digital Archives at the Technologies of Peace Conference at the United Nations Headquarters.
This publication’s authors, who include some of the world’s leading scholars, diplomats and activists on the topic, examine historic, strategic, humanitarian and economic aspects of general and complete disarmament to elaborate and elevate the case for prohibiting conventional weapons systems as well as nuclear weapons. The featured articles were originally presented at the seminar held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 21 October 2015 entitled “Comprehensive Approaches for Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century: Rethinking General and Complete Disarmament”. It was organized by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, gave remarks to the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Friends of the CTBT. Read the remarks here
The 2015 Disarmament Yearbook (Part 2) was released. It is available for download as a PDF. Hard copies can be ordered from the UN Bookstore. Read the Yearbook here.
The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Kim Won-soo, gave remarks at the “UN International Day of Peace Observance: Sustainable Peace, Sustainable Development”. Read the remarks here.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, issued a message to the Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Read the message here.
The Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), or CSP2, took place in Geneva from 22 to 26 August 2016. In the statements delivered by Member States in the United Nations' General Assembly General Debate
Monday, 29 August 2016, is the International Day Against Nuclear Tests - a day in which educational events, activities and messages aim to capture the world’s attention and underscore the need for a unified attempt in preventing further nuclear weapons testing
