High Representative Statements (2015)

December

7th

Acting High Representative Opening Remarks 14th RoK-UN Joint Conference: “The Unfinished Business of Building a More Secure World” 7 Dec 2015, Seoul

November

30th

Statement by the Acting High Representative to the Third ASEAN Regional Forum Workshop on Space Security

October

22nd

Acting High Representative’s remarks to the joint ad hoc meeting of the First and Fourth Committees to address possible challenges to space security and sustainability

19th

Acting High Representative’s statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly on Increasing Capacities to Address Weapons of Mass Destruction

16th

Statement by the Acting High Representative to the 2015 PNND Assembly: “Multilateral Initiatives to Achieve a Nuclear Weapons Free World and the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons” (as prepared)

Director’s remarks at the 70th Session of the First Committee Side Event: Generation of Change: Encouraging Youth Action for Nuclear Abolition

15th

Acting High Representative’s Remarks to the Fifth Prague Agenda Conference: “NPT Review Conference 2015: Lessons and Future Prospects” (as prepared)

8th

Acting High Representative’s opening statement to the General Debate of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (as prepared)

September

30th

Acting High Representative’s remarks at the opening of the Exhibit to mark the Second International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (as prepared)

22nd

Statement By Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs to the United Nations Foundation “The UN at 70: Striving for a safer and more prosperous world”

10th

Statement by the Acting High Representative to the informal meeting of the General Assembly on the International Day Against Nuclear Testing -Toward Zero: Resolving the Contradictions (as prepared)

7th

Message from the Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs: Training for the Points of Contact for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 in the Asia-Pacific Region

August

24th

Acting High Representative’s remarks to the First Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty in Cancún, Mexico

7th

Acting High Representative’s remarks at the Handover Ceremony for the Japanese Translation of “Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do!”

July

20th

Acting High Representative’s remarks at the Beijing International Seminar on the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations: “Seventy Years of the UN: Missions, Responsibility and Future”

7th

Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Kim Won-soo Statement to the Conference on Disarmament “Stalemate Cannot Continue”

June

20th

Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Kim Won-soo Remarks to the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs

May

27th

Statement by the High Representative at the Security Dialogue Meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation Vienna : “Commitments on Conventional Arms Transfers: Synergies of UN and OSCE Efforts”

18th

High Representative’s commencement address at 2015 Spring Commencement Ceremony, Middlebury Institute of International Studies: “Education and Public Service”

14th

Director’s remarks at an NPT side-event organized by Unfold Zero: “United Nations Initiatives for Nuclear Abolition”

11th

High Representative’s statement for the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence

1st

High Representative’s remarks at an NPT side-event organized by Ban All Nukes generation: “Challenging the Status Quo: A Generation Rising for Peace, Justice, and Nuclear Abolition”

April

27th

High Representative’s remarks to Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Delegates of the NPT: “A tribute to the Hibakusha”

High Representative’s remarks at an NPT side event organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden in cooperation with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: “Promoting a Successful Outcome of the 2015 NPT Review Conference”

26th

Remarks by High Representative for Disarmament Affairs at the Acceptance of a Petition for Nuclear Disarmament at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

24th

Statement by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs at Third Conference of States Parties and Signatories of Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia – “Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones: Building Blocks for a World Free of Nuclear”

23rd

Director’s remarks at meeting of the International Network of Mayors for Peace, Belgium – “A Century of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Enough!”

22nd

UNODA Directors remarks at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence, Brussels, Belgium – Chemical Weapons: from Ypres to Aleppo

20th

High Representative Kane addresses Informal Meeting for the First Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty

13th

High Representative’s video message for the CCW Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

Statement by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs On the Global Day of Action on Military Spending

9th

Directors remarks to Global Security Institute seminar, hosted by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See “Nuclear Weapons: Time for abolition”

6th

High Representative’s opening remarks at the United Nations Disarmament Commission

March

30th

Text of High Representative’s video message to Biological Weapons Convention 40th anniversary event

19th

Director’s remarks at NYU/ICRC Annual Seminar “Science Cannot be Placed Above its Humanitarian Consequences”: Panel Discussion on the use of Weapon Technologies, old and new

13th

High Representative’s keynote address at NPT workshop in Annecy hosted by James Martin Center – “The Home Stretch: Looking for Common Ground ahead of the 2015 NPT Review Conference”

2nd

High Representative’s keynote address at the Annual NATO Conference on WMD Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation – “NATO and the Future of Disarmament”

February

28th

High Representative’s statement to the 63rd session of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters as delivered by Thomas Markram

19th

Director’s remarks at Mexican Senate : “The Threat posed by Weapons “

January

30th

High Representative’s address to the staff of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

26th

High Representative’s remarks at the Permanent Mission of Sweden “The Arms Trade Treaty – Implications for Countries that are not Major Producers or Exporters”

8th

High Representative’s remarks at Conference on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in Santiago, Chile “Roads to Nuclear Disarmament: a Case of Convergence in Diversity”