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September 28, 2016
A group of governments have submitted a draft UN General Assembly resolution to start negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons. The document was circulated on Wednesday by its lead sponsors Austria, Mexico, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil and Nigeria and follows on from the recommendation of a UN Working Group, at which the overwhelming majority of states supported the call for ban treaty negotiations in 2017.
... The voting on the resolution will take place at the end of October or early November.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Austria on Tuesday called for banning nuclear weapons because of their catastrophic humanitarian effects, an initiative it said now has the backing of 159 countries.
On Obama's initiative, it has been decided that leaders of the United Nations Security Council member countries will meet on Sept. 24 to discuss nuclear issues.
"We are hopeful that your country would support the Arab draft resolution," says the June 29 letter to Bildt. "Unfortunately," Sweden was among the EU nations voting to block action on the document last year, Moussa wrote. In Stockholm, Swedish foreign mi
On Oct 24, 2008, United Nations Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave a landmark speech entitled Contagious doctrine of deterrence has made non-proliferation more difficult, in which he called on governments to fulfil their nuclear disarmament obliga
by Thalif Deen / IPS. "Monday [3.5.2010] an overwhelming majority of U.N. member states - 118 out of 192 - wanted the defiant Jewish state to come clean with its nuclear weapons programme and sign the NPT, which is aimed at halting the spread of these dev
Henry A. Wallace: The Way to Peace (September 12, 1946) When the United States were still mighty by all meanings, Wallace gave this speech in the New York Madison Square Garden. One week later he was forced to resign by President Harry S. Truman.
I maj 2006 sade den amerikanske FN-ambassadören, John Bolton: "Huvudsaken är att Ryssland och Kina är ense om att detta [Irans kärnforskning] är ett hot mot internationell fred och säkerhet enligt kapitel VII." Kapitel VII ("åtgärder i samband med hot mot
An article by Alyn Ware, IALANA. This momentum is being supported and maintained at the UN General Assembly, primarily through the draft resolution A/C.1/65/L.50, “Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of
Forum scientifique et citoyen sur la Radioprotection De Tchernobyl à Fukushima 11/12/13 MAI 2012, Genève Organisé par Independent WHO (Pour l’Indépendance de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé) Site du collectif Independent WHO
Date: 2013/10/21 Today at 17:20 in New York, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie from New Zealand delivered the following statement on behalf of 124 states in the UN General Assembly's First Committee. I'd like to congratulate all of you who have reached out to governments, in capitals and in New York, with an extraordinarily good result. You've done an amazing job!
Reaching Critical Will has published a conference report for the meeting hosted by the government of Norway on 4-5 March 2013 on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Only two of the nuclear possessing states, India and Pakistan, attended the meeting. The other countries with nuclear weapons-China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, France, Israel, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States-did not participate. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council boycotted the meeting, saying that the conference would "divert discussion and focus" away from other fora. The same day as the conference was held, the UK ambassador to the CD said that "all efforts should be focused on getting the CD back to work" and the Russian ambassador argued that the Oslo conference might "pull apart the CD agenda". China's ambassador warned that discussions external to the CD or UN system would undermine existing processes, while the US ambassador emphasised the need for a "practical, step-by-step approach to disarmament."
Geneva, 16 January 2001 - Early laboratory results confirm that pieces of DU penetrators found at sites targeted by NATO during the 1999 Kosovo conflict contain Uranium 236, the United Nations Environment Programme reported here today