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The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) (French: Bureau des affaires du désarmement) is an Office of the United Nations Secretariat established in January 1998 as the Department for Disarmament Affairs, part of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan to reform the UN as presented in his report to the General Assembly in July 1997.
According to the treaties database maintained by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, as of July 2024, 187 states have ratified or acceded to the BWC. [1] Multiple dates indicate the different days in which states submitted their signature or deposition, varied by location.
The Disarmament Commission meets yearly in New York for three weeks hosting both plenary meetings and working groups. The work of the commission is usually divided between two working groups, with each group tackling one topic from the whole range of disarmament issues for that session, one of which must include nuclear disarmament.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the world's top disarmament negotiating body on Monday it needed to make urgent reforms, accusing it of "paralysis" and failing to compel countries to ...
The United Nations Disarmament Commission was first established on 11 January 1952 by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 502 (VI). This commission was put under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Security Council and its mandate included: preparing proposals for a treaty for the regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments, including the ...
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is a research institute of the United Nations focused on disarmament and international security.It was established in 1980 by the United Nations General Assembly with the stated purpose of informing states and the global community on questions of international security, and to assist with disarmament efforts so as to facilitate ...
Andrey Baklitskiy, senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, said the planned deployments created "more scenarios for direct military confrontation between Russia ...
1. Establishment of the BWC Implementation Support Unit within the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva to provide administrative support and strengthen the Convention in other ways. 2. Renewal and modification of the intersessional program. 155 Ambassador Masood Khan (Pakistan) BWC/CONF.VI/6: Seventh [123] 5. – 22 ...