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Press Releases
- 5 November 2013
‘Record-Breaking’ Participation Defined First Committee Session, says Chair at Closing, as Delegations send 53 Drafts to General Assembly
- 4 November 2013
With Some in First Committee Seeking to Reframe Nuclear Debate Around Humanitarian Consequences, New Draft Reaffirms Compliance With International Humanitarian Law
- 1 November 2013
First Committee Approves 18 Texts Covering Dual-Use Goods Transfers, Transparency in Armaments, Arms Trade Treaty, Five Requiring 21 Seperate Recorded Votes
- 1 November 2013
First Committee Approves 18 Texts Covering Dual-Use Goods Transfers, Transparency In Armaments, Arms Trade Treaty, Five Requiring 21 Separate Recorded Votes
- 31 October 2013
Political Compromise in Short Supply as First Committee Begins Consideration of Drafts in Nuclear Weapons Cluster, Approving Eight by Recorded Vote
- 30 October 2013
Nothing ‘Conventional’ about Conventional Weapons, First Committee Told, as Hopes For New Treaty Temper Ambivalence towards Arms Restraint
- 29 October 2013
First Committee Speakers Greet Arms Trade Treaty as ‘Epoch-Making’ Achievement Capable of Restraining Proliferation If Backed by Strict Export Controls Delegates Troubled by Trend towards Autonomy in Robotic Weapon
- 28 October 2013
Space-Based Ballistic Missile Defence ‘Very Worrying Dimension’, with Potentially Devastating Consequences on Earth, Speaker Tells First Committee
- 25 October 2013
Outer Space Increasingly ‘Congested, Contested And Competitive’, First Committee Told, as Speakers Usge Legally Binding Document to Prevent Its Militarization
- 24 October 2013
Recent Battlefield Use of Chemical Weapons, Absence of Verification Mechanism For Biological Weapons Ban Trigger Strong Rebuke in First Committee
- 23 October 2013
Debating Whether Rules of Procedure Were Political Impediments or Working Methods In Need of Review, First Committee Seeks Ways to Revive Disarmament Machinery
- 22 October 2013
‘Globalization of Indifference’ No Option, Says Speaker as First Committee Probes Degree to Which Stalled Progress Symptomatic of Institiutional Failings
- 21 October 2013
Discourse Shifts in First Committee from Cold War ‘Balance of Terror’ Logic Against Nuclear Weapon Use to Catastrophic Humanitarian Impacts Speakers Say Promises of Nuclear-Weapon-Free World ‘Empty’ Unless Elimination Supplants Risk Mitigation - 18 October 2013
Concept of Nuclear Deterrence, Hard-Wired into Certain Security Strategies, Comes under Critical Review as First Committee Continues Thematic Debate
- 17 October 2013
Sobering Threat Analysis in First Committee as Agency Heads Present Mixed Reviews: Window of Opportunity Has Opened for Disarmament, but Could ‘Easily Swing Shut’; Non-Aligned Movement, New Agenda Coalition Introduce Resolutions
- 16 October 2013
Removing Roadblocks to Progress with ‘Virtually Moribund’ Disarmament Machinery Informs Debate in First Committee as Speakers Consider Probable Causes - 14 October 2013
Focus in First Committee on ‘Excessively Injurious’ Effects of Cluster Munitions, Landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices, Long after Accords Signed, Combat Ends - 10 October 2013
Non-Nuclear-Armed States in First Committee Call for Binding Security Assurances To Address Crippling Potential of Nuclear Weapons Use against Them Arab States Advocate Middle East Zone Free of Mass Destruction Weapons - 9 October 2013
Conditions not yet ripe to rid world of Nuclear weapons, United States tells First Committee, amid growing appetite to make difficult policy choices - 8 October 2013
Recent use of Chemical Weapons ‘Stark and Horrific Reminder’ of Duty to Eliminate them, Speaker Tells First Committee as it continues full- Scope Debte - 7 October 2013
High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Hopes First Committee Can ‘Meet Rising Tide of Expectations’ by Redirecting ‘Counter-Currents’ - 2 October 2013
Ibrahim Dabbashi of Libya Elected Chair of First Committee
Draft Resolutions tabled at the First Committee
A/C.1/68/L.1 |
Establishment of a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East |
A/C.1/68/L.2 |
The Risk of Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East |
A/C.1/68/L.3 | GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction |
A/C.1/68/L.4 | GCD: The arms trade treaty |
A/C.1/68/L.5 |
Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report of the Disarmament Commission |
A/C.1/68/L.6A/C.1/68/L.6/Rev.1 | GCD: Follow up to the 2013 High-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament |
A/C.1/68/L.7 |
GCD: Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control |
A/C.1/68/L.8 |
General and complete disarmament: Missiles |
A/C.1/68/L.9 A/C.1/68/L.9/Rev.1 |
GCD: Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them |
A/C.1/68/L.10 |
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction |
A/C.1/68/L.11 |
GCD: Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
A/C.1/68/L.12 |
Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security |
A/C.1/68/L.13 |
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace |
A/C.1/68/L.14 |
GCD: Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control |
A/C.1/68/L.15 |
GCD: Relationship between disarmament and development |
A/C.1/68/L.16 |
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament |
A/C.1/68/L.17 |
GCD: Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation |
A/C.1/68/L.18 |
GCD: Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments |
A/C.1/68/L.19 |
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region |
A/C.1/68/L.20 |
GCD: Reducing nuclear danger |
A/C.1/68/L.21 |
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons |
A/C.1/68/L.22 |
Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament |
A/C.1/68/L.23 |
GCD: Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction |
A/C.1/68/L.24 |
Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations |
A/C.1/68/L.26 |
GCD: Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons |
A/C.1/68/L.27 |
Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report of the Conference on Disarmament |
A/C.1/68/L.28 |
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 |
A/C.1/68/L.29 A/C.1/68/L.29/Rev.1 |
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty |
A/C.1/68/L.30 |
GCD: Transparency in armaments |
A/C.1/68/L.31 |
GCD: National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual use goods and technology |
A/C.1/68/L.32 |
GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction |
A/C.1/68/L.34 |
GCD: Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations |
A/C.1/68/L.35 |
GCD: Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices |
A/C.1/68/L.36 A/C.1/68/L.36* |
GCD: Nuclear disarmament |
A/C.1/68/L.37 |
Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security |
A/C.1/68/L.38 |
GCD: The Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects |
A/C.1/68/L.39 A/C.1/68/L.39/Rev.1 |
General and complete disarmament: Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty) |
A/C.1/68/L.40 |
General and complete disarmament: Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities |
A/C.1/68/L.41 |
Prevention of an arms race in outer space |
A/C.1/68/L.42 A/C.1/68/L.42/Rev.1 |
Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) |
A/C.1/68/L.43 |
GCD: United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons |
A/C.1/68/L.44 |
GCD: Reduction of military budgets: Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus |
A/C.1/68/L.45 |
Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures |
A/C.1/68/L.46 |
African Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Treaty |
A/C.1/68/L.47 |
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa |
A/C.1/68/L.48 |
GCD: Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes |
A/C.1/68/L.49 |
Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons |
A/C.1/68/L.50 |
GCD: Regional disarmament |
A/C.1/68/L.51 |
GCD: Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context |
A/C.1/68/L.52 |
GCD: Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels |
A/C.1/68/L.54 |
Programme budget implications of draft resolution A/C.1/68/L.37 – Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security |
Chair’s Statement
- 5 November 2013
Chair’s Closing Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly ( English)
- 7 October 2013
Chair’s Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly ( Arabic )
High Representative Statements
- 29 October 2013
Remarks on the Challenge of Chemical Weapons at the First Committee Side Event
- 17 October 2013
Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly: Exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and other high-level officials in the field of arms control and disarmament
- 16 October 2013
High Representative’s Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly : Follow-up of resolutions and decisions adopted by the First Committee at its past session / Presentation of reports
- 7 October 2013
High Representative’s Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly
Countries, Groups and Organisations’ Statements
General Debate
- Indonesia (on behalf of NAM)
- Jamaica (CARICOM)
- European Union
- Bahrain
- Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group )
- Japan
- Libya
- Switzerland
- Spain
- France
- Turkey
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Ukraine
- Malaysia
- Russian Federation
- Russian Federation (English)
- Tunisia
- China
- Botswana
- Algeria
- Kazakhstan
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Egypt (on behalf of NAC)
- Canada
- United States of America
- Republic of Korea
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- South Africa
- Senegal
- Thailand
- Slovenia
- India
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Brazil
- Venezuela
- Hungary
- Myanmar (on behalf of ASEAN)
- United Arab Emirates (Arabic)
- United Arab Emirates (English)
- Iraq
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Australia
- Colombia
- Qatar
- Jordan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Denmark
- Belarus
- Bangladesh
- San Marino
- Georgia
- OPANAL
- Nepal
- Estonia
- Uruguay
- Chile
- Ecuador
- Oman ( Arabic )
- Oman ( English )
- Burkina Faso
- Montenegro
- Maldives
- New Zealand
- Mongolia
- Ethiopia
- Nicaragua
- Liechtenstein
- Kuwait ( Arabic )
- Kuwait ( English )
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Kuwait ( Arabic )
- Kuwait ( English )
- Sudan
- Afghanistan
- Portugal
- Costa Rica
- Serbia
- Cape Verde
- Congo
- Macedonia
- Austria
- Armenia
- Benin
- Peru
- Guatemala
- Viet Nam
- Albania
- Cuba (on behalf of CELAC )
- Iran
- Kenya
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- CTBTO
- IAEA
- OPCW
Thematic Debate on Nuclear Weapons
- Bahrain
- Egypt (NAC)
- European Union
- United Kingdom
- Japan
- Suriname (on behalf of Union of South American Nations)
- Costa Rica
- Nigeria (on behalf of the De-Alerting Group)
- France
- Pakistan
- Norway
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Thailand
- Iraq
- Spain
- China
- Portugal
- New Zealand
- New Zealand (Joint Statement)
- Senegal
- Australia
- Nigeria
- Switzerland
- Canada
- Malaysia
- Venezuela
- Philippines
- Czech Republic
- Republic of Korea
- India
- Turkey
- Australia (Group statement)
- Austria
- Romania
- Solomon-Islands
- South Africa
- Ecuador
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Israel
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Germany
- Egypt
- Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Ireland
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Holy See
Thematic Debate on Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Bahrain (on behalf of the Arab Group)
- Suriname (on behalf of UNASUR)
- European Union
- Egypt
- United States
- France
- Norway
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- Poland
- Spain
- Hungary
- Australia
- Venezuela
- South Africa
- Iraq
- Pakistan
- Republic of Korea
- Mexico
- Russian Federation
- Russian Federation( English )
- Japan
- Croatia
- Nigeria
- Ireland
- Turkey
Thematic Debate on Disarmament Aspects of Outer Space
- Statement by the Chair of the UNGGE
- Bahrain (on behalf of the Arab Group)
- European Union
- Egypt
- France
- United States
- Kazakhstan
- Pakistan
- Republic of Korea
- Brazil
- Russian Federation
- Russian Federation ( English )
- China
- Sri Lanka
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Belarus
- Australia
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Kuwait
Thematic Debate on Conventional Weapons
- Bahrain (on behalf of the Arab Group)
- Trinidad and Tobago (on behalf of CARICOM)
- European Union
- Mali (on behalf of ECOWAS)
- Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group)
- Suriname (on behalf of UNASUR)
- Japan
- Lesotho
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- Colombia
- Algeria
- Thailand
- Switzerland
- Slovenia
- Ireland
- Spain
- United States
- Pakistan
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Croatia
- China
- Australia
- Czech Republic
- Austria
- Sweden
- France
- South Africa
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- India
- Lao (People’s Democratic Republic)
- Chile
- Nigeria
- Philippines
- Myanmar
- Botswana
- New Zealand
- Togo
- Mozambique
- Latvia
- Republic of Moldova
- Rwanda
- Republic of Korea
- Turkey
- Germany
Thematic Debate on Other Disarmament Measures and International Security
Thematic Debate on Regional Disarmament and Security
Thematic Debate on Disarmament Machinery
- Statement of the President of the Conference on Disarmament
- Statement of the Chairman of the UN Disarmament Commission
- Statement of the Director of UNIDIR
- Indonesia (on behalf of NAM)
- Bahrain (on behalf of the Arab Group)
- Suriname (on behalf of UNASUR)
- European Union
- Egypt
- United States
- Lithuania
- France
- Colombia
- Switzerland
- Algeria
- Kuwait
- Canada
- Iraq
- Czech Republic
- Pakistan
- Republic of Korea
- South Africa
- Ecuador
- Slovakia
- United Kingdom
- Myanmar
- Netherlands
- Peru
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Nepal
- India
- Russian Federation
- Ireland
- Turkey
- Portugal
- Germany
- Joint Statement by Interested States in Support of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
Civil Society and NGO Presentations
- List of NGO liaisons for the First Committee
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“Anti-personnel Mine Ban Treaty and on the Convention on Cluster Munitions ” , delivered by International Campaign to Ban Landmines And Cluster Munition Coalition
“Arms Trade Treaty and on Small Arms and Light Weapons “, delivered by Control Arms Coalition and International Action Network on Small Arms-
“Campaign to Stop Killer Robots”, delivered by Human Rights Watch - “Emerging Technologies”, delivered by Project Ploughshares
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“Impact of explosive weapons in populated areas and on toxic remnants of war “
, delivered by International Network on Explosive Weapons and Toxic Remnants of War Project -
Statement delivered by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association -
Statement delivered by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute,Inc. -
Statement delivered by the World Forum on Shooting Activities -
“Ways of Work”, delivered by Article 36 -
“Weapons of Mass Destruction”, delivered by Reaching Critical Will and
Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom