Geneva Forum: Disarmament Calendar (Current)

Date	Description	Issue	Location
	January
17 January	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
16-18 January	Regulation of Civilian Possession; Misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons by State Security Forces; and Common Principles for Transfer Controls: Expert Meeting organised by the Government of Canada.	Small Arms	Montreux
24 January - 4 February	United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Tracing Small Arms: 2nd substantive session.	Small Arms	New York
24 January- 1 April	Conference on Disarmament: 1st part	Various	Geneva
31 January - 2 February	Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission): 4th meeting. www.wmdcommission.org	WMD	Cairo
	February
7-9 February	World Nuclear Association: 30th Annual Symposium http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/subindex.htm \| enquires@wna-symposium.org	Nuclear Power	London
10 February	United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA): Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space www.oosa.unvienna.org \| oosa@unvienna.org	Outer Space	Vienna
14-16 February	Treaty on Open Skies: 1st Review Conference	Surveillance	Vienna
14 February-4 March	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 24th session of the Working Group B (Verification) pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
23-25 February	UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters	Various	New York
25-27 February	Swedish Network for Nuclear Disarmament: Conference on the Non Proliferation Treaty and the Independent Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction. jens.petersson@svenskafreds.se	Nuclear Weapons	Stockholm
	March
1-2 March	Preventing Bio-terrorism: The 1st Interpol Global Conference to strengthen law enforcement preparedness and develop effective police training www.interpol.org/Public/BioTerrorism/Conferences/1stGlobalConference.asp	Biological Weapons	Lyon
7- 11 March	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): 10th session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and Mines Other Than Anti-personnel Mines (MOTAPM).	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
14 March	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
14-16 March	Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission): 5th meeting. www.wmdcommission.org	WMD	New Delhi
14-18 March	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 40th session of the Executive Council www.opcw.org	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
16- 18 March	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): International Conference on Nuclear Security www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/Meetings2005.asp	Nuclear Security	London
18-19 March	Centre For Nonproliferation Studies Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty	Nuclear Weapons	Annecy (France)
21-22 March	UNIDIR Conference on "Safeguarding Space Security: Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space"	Outer Space	Geneva
21-22 March	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): International Conference on Nuclear Power for the 21st Century Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Power	Paris
28 March- 1 April	United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Information and Telecommunication in the context of International Security: 2nd session	Information	New York
March TBA	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Regional Seminar on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons	Jamaica
	April
15-17 April	Action for Arms Control in a World Awash with Weapons: Global "Control Arms Campaign" Conference	Arms Trade	Nairobi
18- 22 April	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 24th session of the Advisory Group (first part) pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
26-28 April	Conference of States Parties and Signatories of Treaties That Establish Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones	Nuclear Weapons	Tlatelolco (Mexico)
	May
2-27 May	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): 7th Review Conference derosa@un.org	Nuclear Weapons	New York
10-12 May	3rd European Symposium on Non-lethal Weapons www.non-lethal-weapons.com/	Non-lethal Weapons	Ettlingen (Germany)
17-20 May	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 24th session of the Advisory Group (second part) pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
23 May-3 June	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): (first part) 25th session of the Working Group B (Verification) pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
30 May- 15 July	Conference on Disarmament: 2nd part	Various	Geneva
31 May	Workshop on illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons disarmament.un.org:8080/cab/salw-brokering.html	Small Arms	New York
	June
3 June	Workshop on illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons disarmament.un.org:8080/cab/salw-brokering.html	Small Arms	Geneva
6-12 June	Global week of action on small arms www.iansa.org/action/week_of_action.htm \| woa@iansa.org	Small Arms	Various
6-17 June	United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Tracing Small Arms: 3rd substantive session. ddaweb@un.org	Small Arms	New York
8-17 June	United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA): 48th session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space www.oosa.unvienna.org \| oosa@unvienna.org	Outer Space	Vienna
11-13 June	Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission): 6th meeting. www.wmdcommission.org	WMD	Stockholm
13 June	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
13-17 June	Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Meetings of the Standing Committees isu@gichd.ch \| www.apminebanconvention.org	Landmines	Geneva
13-24 June	Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Meeting of Governmental Experts	Biological Weapons	Geneva
27 June	Broad-based consultations on further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons disarmament.un.org:8080/cab/salw-brokering.html	Small Arms	Geneva
27-30 June	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 24th session pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
June 29 - June 1	UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters	Various	New York
28 June -1 July	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 41st session of the Executive Council www.opcw.org	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
	July
1 July	Broad-based consultations on further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons disarmament.un.org:8080/cab/salw-brokering.html	Small Arms	New York
4- 15 July	United Nations Group of Experts on Information and Telecommunication in the context of International Security: 3rd session	International Security	New York
6-8 July	G8 Summit	Various	Auchterarder (Scotland)
11-15 July	United Nations Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons: 2nd Biennial Meeting of States ddaweb@un.org	Small Arms	New York
11-22 July	United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Information and Telecommunication in the context of International Security: 3rd session	Information	New York
18 July - 5 August	United Nations Disarmament Commission disarmament.un.org	Various	New York
21-22 July	2005 Social Forum of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights	Human Rights	Geneva
	August
2- 12 August	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): 11th session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and Mines Other Than Anti-Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
8 August- 23 September	Conference on Disarmament: 3rd part	Various	Geneva
29 August- 9 September	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 25th session of the Working Group B (Verification) liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
	September
September TBA	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Conference on facilitating the Entry into Force. liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna or New York
5-7 September	Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission): 7th meeting. www.wmdcommission.org	WMD	Geneva
12-16 September	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 25th session of the Advisory Group pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
14-16 September	Millennium + 5 Summit	Millennium Development Goals	New York
17-23 Septembre	CBMTSI-IV Third World Congress on Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism, with pre-congress Workshop on Proliferation.	Terrorism threats/Proliferation	Dubrovnik, Croatia
19 September	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
26-30 September	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): 49th session of the General Conference www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/Meetings2005.asp	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
26 September - 4 November	United Nations General Assembly: First Committee (Disarmament & International Security)	Various	New York
27-30 September	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 42nd session of the Executive Council www.opcw.org	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
	October
3 October	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
10-21 October	Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime: Conference of the States Parties (2nd session) unodc@unodc.org	Transnational Organised Crime	Vienna
19-21 October	Permanent Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Third Plenary Meeting www.swefor.org/english/forum.asp	Small Arms	Mexico TBA
	November
7-9 November	OPCW, The Hague 10th session of the conference of The States Parties	Various	The Hague
7-11 November	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 10th session of the Conference of the State Parties www.opcw.org	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
10-12 November	Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission): 8th meeting. www.wmdcommission.org	WMD	Stockholm
14-18 November	International Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons www.newsinghana.com/general.php?story=433	Small Arms	Accra (Ghana)
14-22 November	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): 12th session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and Mines Other Than Anti-Personnel Mines (MOTAPM).	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
14-18 November	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO):25th session of the Preparatory Commission pws.ctbto.org/ \| liaison@ctbto.org	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
23 November	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of States Parties to Amended Protocol II.	Inhumane weapons	Geneva
24 November	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Official.Mail@IAEA.ORG	Nuclear Weapons/ Power	Vienna
25 November	International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
24-25 November	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): 7th Meeting of States Parties	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
28 November- 2 December	Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: 6th Meeting of States Parties isu@gichd.ch \| www.apminebanconvention.org	Landmines	Croatia
	December
5-9 December	Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Annual Meeting of the States Parties	Biological Weapons	Geneva
6-9 December	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW):43rd session of the Executive Council www.opcw.org	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
7-8 December	Interparliamentary Conference on "Strengthening European Action on Non-proliferation and disarmament of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (WMD), Small Arms/Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War (SALW/ERW)" (Organised by the European Parliament's "Security and Defence Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee")	Various	Brussels
10 December	International Human Rights Day http://www2.ohchr.org/english/events/day2004/hrd2004.htm
14-15 December	Africa Union meeting on Small Arms and Light Weapons	Small Arms	Windhoek (Namibia)

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