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2003 Disarmament Calendar

Date	Description	Issue	Location
20 January-28 March	Conference on Disarmament: 1^st part	Various	Geneva
3-7 February	Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: 1^st 2003 Standing Committee meeting	Landmines	Geneva
5-7 February	UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters: 1^st session	Various	New York
25-28 February	Group of Governmental Experts on Tracing Small Arms: Informal consultations	Small Arms	Geneva
3-7 March	Group of Governmental Experts on Tracing Small Arms: 2^nd meeting	Small Arms	Geneva
10-14 March	Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW): 4^th session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War and Mines other than Anti-Personnel Mines	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
17-21 March	Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms: 1^st meeting	Conventional Arms	New York
31 March-17 April	UN Disarmament Commission	Various	New York
28 April-9 May	Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): 1^st Review Conference	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
28 April-9 May	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): 2^nd Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference	Nuclear Weapons	Geneva
12-16 May	Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: 2^nd 2003 Standing Committee meeting	Landmines	Geneva
12-23 May	Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms: 2^nd meeting	Conventional Arms	New York
12 May-27 June	Conference on Disarmament: 2^nd part	Various	Geneva
2-6 June	Group of Governmental Experts on Tracing Small Arms, 3^rd meeting	Small Arms	New York
16-27 June	Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW): 5^th session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War and Mines other than Anti-Personnel Mines	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
24-27 June	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO): 20th Preparatory Commission	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
7-11 July	Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects: First biennial meeting.	Small Arms	New York
16-18 July	UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters: 2^nd session	Various	Geneva
21 July-1 August	Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms: 3^rd meeting	Conventional Arms	New York
19-22 August	UN Conference on "Arms Control, Multilateral Disarmament and Their Future"	Various	Osaka
28 July-10 September	Conference on Disarmament: 3^rd part	Various	Geneva
18-29 August	Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Expert meeting in preparation for the annual meeting of States Parties (10-14 November 2003)	Biological Weapons	Geneva
3-5 September	Conference on facilitating the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
15-19 September	Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: 5^th meeting of the States Parties	Landmines	Bangkok
29 September -31 October	UN General Assembly First Committee	Various	New York
29 September-3 October	Comprehensive Nucluear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 23rd session of Working Group A to facilitate the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
1-2 October	Transatlantic Cooperation on Missile Defense Conference: Aspen Institute Berlin www.aspenberlin.org/event_detail.php?iEventId=112	Missiles	Rome
20-24 October	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: Conference of the States (8^th session) www.opcw.org/csp8/Parties	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
29-31 October	International Conference on Conflict Diamonds	Conflict Diamonds	Sun City
10-14 November	Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Annual meeting of States Parties	Biological Weapons	Geneva
10-14 November	Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization (CTBTO) : 21st session of the Preparatory Commission	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
17-21 November	Group of Governmental Experts on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development: 1^st meeting	Disarmament and Development	Geneva
17-24 November	Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW): 6^th session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War and Mines other than Anti-Personnel Mines	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
26 November	Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW): 5^th Annual Conference of the States Parties to Amended Protocol II.	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
27-28 November	Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW): Meeting of States Parties	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
2-5 December	Red Cross and Red Crescent: 28th International Conference Protecting Human Dignity www.icrc.org/eng/conf28	Various	Geneva
2-5 December	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 35th session of the Executive Council www.opcw.org/html/global/news_frameset.html	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
16-18 December	United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs (UNDDA) and League of Arab States conference on small arms and light weapons	Small Arms	Cairo

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