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United States Nuclear Policy and Programs & Side Event-October 6th
The United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and are in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations, Frank Rose, Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance told an audience in a Side Event held in the United Nations Headquarters on October 6, 2016. In the panel discussion, Rose said that the US is committed to a policy of non-use and to the reduction of its nuclear arsenal. He pointed to the signing of the New START treaty…
The UN, Cyberspace and International Peace & Security-Side Event-October 5th
Moderator Kerstin Vignard who leads UNIDIR’s work on cyber issues The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) held a side event on cyberspace and international peace and security on October 5, 2016 during 71st Session of the General Assembly First Committee. Three expert presenters discussed the important details of cybersecurity in the modern world and how Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are increasingly influential on economic, scientific, social, and political developments. They were: Mr. Karsten Geier, the chair of the Group of Governmental…
Disarmament and non-proliferation education side event October 3
Disarmament and non-proliferation education side event panelists On October 3, the Permanent Mission of Poland organized a side event on disarmament and education in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The Permanent Representative of Poland, H.E. Mr. Boguslaw Winid moderated the panel. In his opening remarks, he presented a brief overview of the achievements in the field of disarmament education. Ambassador Winid highlighted the relevance of the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education (A/57/124) and considered it as…
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – September 26th
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson On September 26, 2016 the United Nations celebrated the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, established in 2013, the day calls for the urgent commencement of negotiations to prohibit the possession, development, production, acquisition and testing of nuclear weapons. The high-level informal meeting commemorating the event was opened by the Deputy Secretary-General and attended by over seventy state delegations and non-governmental organizations. The Deputy Secretary-…
Technologies of Peace – September 16 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
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. Students from Japan were also able to present their active projects; focused on promoting a cessation of armed conflict. “The Archives” is a community that organizes memories via digital mapping, a process where data is compiled and formatted into a virtual image to give a historical…
Nagasaki Peace Messenger visits United Nations Office at Geneva
Acting-Director of the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Ms. Mary Soliman greets Japanese Students. On 16 August, the Nagasaki Peace Messenger as Youth Communicators for a world without nuclear weapons visited the United Nations Office at Geneva and met with Acting-Director of the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Mary Soliman. The twenty-two students from Japan were accompanied by Ms. Tadako Kawazoe a Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) from Hiroshima.During their visit, they handed over 125.413 signatures, collected…
Winners of the Poster for Peace Contest honored
On 3 May 2016, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) organized an event to showcase the twelve winning posters from eleven artists who won the United Nations Poster for Peace Contest. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Kim Won-soo and United Nations Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas participated. Honoured guests were first prize winner Ivan Ciro Palomino Huamani and third prize winner Anjali Chandrashekar. The contest was held to commemorate the seventieth anniversary…
Side event highlights EU support for the Biological Weapons Convention implemented by UNODA
On 27 April, the European Union organized a side event at the Preparatory Committee for the Eighth BWC Review Conference. The side event marked the official launch of EU Council Decision 2016/51/CFSP in support of the BWC. H.E. Mr Peter Sørensen, Ambassador, Head of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva and Ms. Mary Soliman, Acting Director, Geneva Branch, UNODA highlighted in their keynote addresses the importance of this Decision, which provides EUR 2.34 million to six BWC projects over the next three years. The…
European Union adopts 2.3 million Euro voluntary contribution in support of the Biological Weapons Convention
Participants at workshop in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, funded by the European Union, and implemented by the of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs In January 2016 the Council of the European Union adopted “Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/51 in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in the framework of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”. The Decision provides for a voluntary contribution of EUR 2,340,000 which will be administered by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs over the…
High Level Roundtable on Partnerships for Silencing the Guns in Africa
On 25 January 2016, UNREC (ODA), UNOCHA, and the African Union convened a High Level Panel on the “Silencing the Guns in 2020”; a side event on the margins of the Summit of Heads of State of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The participants included representatives of the AU Peace and Security, Political and Social Affairs Departments, the AU Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security Mme Bineta Diop, as well as the ICRC, IOM, UNOAU, UNESCO, UNHCR and UN Women. Representatives of several African Member States, including South Africa, Gabon, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, and other…