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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Messengers visits United Nations Office at Geneva
On 23 June 2017, over 20 Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Messengers (also known as Youth Communicators for a World without Nuclear Weapons) visited the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) in Geneva. The students from Japan were joined by first, second and third generation “Hibakusha”—survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Anja Kaspersen, Director of UNODA in Geneva, welcomed the students to the UN, where they shared personal stories about the experiences of their relatives in the atomic bombings. They also presented Ms. Kaspersen with a petition…
72nd Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Remembering and Looking Towards the Future
On 8 August 2017, the NGO Committee on Peace in Vienna and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs organized a commemorative event for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The event was held at the Vienna International Centre and was dedicated to the victims and survivors of these bombings which took place 72 years ago. Opening remarks were made by Yuko Gulda, Founder of Genbaku No Hi. The event also saw presentations by Ichitomo Taninai, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Japan to International Organizations in Vienna; Franz Josef Kuglitsch, Director for Disarmament,…
Fiji hosts regional workshop to promote the universalization of the Biological Weapons Convention in the Pacific
On 27 and 28 July 2017 Fiji hosted a regional workshop on universalization of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). With five States in the Pacific region not yet party to the BWC (Kiribati, Micronesia, Niue, Samoa and Tuvalu), the main objective of the regional workshop was to raise awareness of the BWC in the region and to promote the efforts of these states towards accession to the Convention. Around 40 participants from across the region attended the workshop. The workshop was organized in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the…
Assistance to Mauritania in drafting of the initial report on Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)
5 – 6 July 2017, Nouakchott, MauritaniaThe United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), in cooperation with the Government of Mauritania and the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), organized a national workshop on resolution 1540 (2004), held in Nouakchott from 5-6 July 2017. Financial support was provided by a voluntary contribution from Japan through the UN Trust Fund for Global and Reginal Disarmament Activities. The objective was to assist Mauritania in its implementation of the resolution,…
UNODA intern discovers personal connection to the history of disarmament
In a story that she wrote for the July-August 2017 edition of the magazine UN Special, Ms. Julie Clark, a former intern at UNODA in Geneva, found out about her very personal connection with the disarmament community when conducting research about her great uncle. He arrived in Europe as a Canadian soldier in WWI as Commonwealth nations reacted to Germany’s use of modern chemical weapons for the first time in history during the second battle of Ypres. Only a year later, he was wounded on that very battlefield from a gunshot and later succumbed to his injuries. One hundred and one…
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) Regional Industry Outreach Conference for the Pacific Alliance States and Brazil
8-9 June, Mexico City, Mexico The Government of Mexico, in cooperation with the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and supported by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Government of Germany, organized an industrial outreach conference. Government and industry representatives discussed the value of working together to ensure that materials and technology that can be misused to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) or their means of delivery do not fall into the hands of terrorists and other non-State actors…
Training for Southeast Asian States to Strengthen the Implementation of the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons
6-7 June 2017 Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) and the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) jointly organized a training workshop on building capacity for the implementation of the Programme of Action (PoA) to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Southeast Asia from 6 to 7 June 2017. The training workshop, which was made possible with financial support from the United Nations Trust Facility Supporting…
National Round Table on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)
22 – 24 May 2017, Vienna, Austria The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD), in cooperation with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, organized a meeting to review the progress made by Uzbekistan in implementing United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) and to update the country’s voluntary National Implementation Action Plan. The meeting took place from 22 to 24 May in Vienna, and UNRCPD and the OSCE co-organized this event in the…
Mongolian authorities review measures to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors
8 – 10 May 2017, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD), in cooperation with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Government of Mongolia, organized a national round-table meeting to review the progress of the national implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) and discuss the development of a voluntary National Implementation Action Plan (NIAP). The meeting took place from 8 to 10 May 2017 in Ulaanbaatar and was organized in the framework of…
Academy Award-winning actor and film producer Michael Douglas visits High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu
Mr. Michael Douglas, Academy Award-winning actor and film producer made a courtesy visit to Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on 6 June 2017 in New York. Mr. Douglas has served as a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 1998 and is the longest serving Messenger of Peace, who has a relentless commitment to disarmament. They exchanged views on various issues related to the disarmament and non-proliferation agenda and the important role played by civil society both in outreach to Member States and in galvanizing public…