Secretary General Statements (2006)

December

6th

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION LAUNCHING PROCESS TOWARDS TREATY ON GLOBAL CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRADE

November

28th

Role of disarmament, non-proliferation examined in Princeton lecture

August

6th

“A great unfinished task ahead: a world free of nuclear dangers, and ultimately, of nuclear weapons” Hiroshima

July

10th

Secretary-General disappointed Small Arms Conference ended without agreement, but says global community committed to action plan to curtail illicit trade

June

26th

‘UNCONTROLLED SPREAD OF ILLICIT SMALL ARMS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UNTOLD HUMAN SUFFERING’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ON ACCEPTING ‘MILLION FACES CAMPAIGN’ PETITION

UN NOT NEGOTIATING ‘GLOBAL GUN BAN’ NOR IS THERE INTENTION TO DENY LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE

21st

NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY FACING TWIN CRISIS OF COMPLIANCE, CONFIDENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

May

18th

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY FACES CRISIS OF COMPLIANCE, CONFIDENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS 21 STATES ON CONSENT TO WEAPONS PROTOCOL

April

25th

‘LET US HONOUR THE VICTIMS OF CHEMICAL WARFARE’ BY ELIMINATING DREADFUL WEAPONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE ON REMEMBRANCE DAY

January

25th

IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR NEW POLITICAL CONSENSUS ON ARMS CONTROL PRIORITIES