Geneva Forum: Disarmament Calendar (Current)

Date	Description	Issue	Location
	January
19 January - 27 March	Conference on Disarmament: First Session website	Various	Geneva
23 January	Open-Ended Working Group on an Arms Trade Treaty: Organizational Meeting	Conventional Arms Trade	New York
	February
16-20 February	Group of Governmental Experts on the continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms: First Session	UN Register	Geneva
16-20 February	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Group of Governmental Experts, First Session	Cluster Munitions	Geneva
17-20 February	Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention: 55th Session	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
18-20 February	United Nations Secretarial General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters: 51st Session website	Various	New York
	March
2-6 March	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Meeting website	Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology	Vienna
2-6 March	Open-Ended Working Group on an Arms Trade Treaty: First Session	Conventional Arms Trade	New York
13-14 March	Centre for Non-Proliferation Studies: Workshop on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty	Nuclear Weapons	Annecy (France)
18 March	Signing Event on the Convention on Cluster Munitions website	Cluster Munitions	NewYork
	April
1-3 April	Regional Workshop in advance of the 2nd Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty website	Landmines	Bangkok
13 April-1 May	United Nations Disarmament Commission	Various	New York
14-17 April	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Group of Governmental Experts, Second Session website	Cluster Munitions	Geneva
20-24 April	The continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms: Second session	UN Register	New York
21-22 April	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Group of Governmental Experts on Amended Protocol II	Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices	Geneva
21-24 April	Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention: 56th Session	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
22-24 April	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Group of Governmental Experts on Amended Protocol V	Explosive Remnants of War	Geneva
27-30 April	Humanitarian Demining Symposium website	Landmines	Sibenik (Croatia)
27 April-1 May	Group of Governmental Experts to review the continuing operation of the UN Register of Conventional Arms and its further development: Second Session A/RES/61/77	UN Register	Geneva
28-29 April	United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research-European Union Sponsored Regional Seminar on Promoting Discussion on Arms Trade Treaty in Central, Northern, Western Africa	Conventional Arms Trade	Dakar
April-May (TBD)	Capacity-Building Workshop on Marking Techniques and Technology in the context of the implementation of the International Tracing Instrument (West African States)	Small Arms and Light Weapons	Prague
29 May-4 June	Cluster Munitions Convention Global Week of Action website	Cluster Munitions
	May
4-15 May	2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: Third Preparatory Committee website	Nuclear Weapons	New York
18 May – 3 July	Conference on Disarmament: Second Part website	Various	Geneva
25-29 May	Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Meeting of Standing Committees website \| contact	Landmines	Geneva
29 May	Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Landmine Convention: First Preparatory Committee	Landmines	Geneva
	June
10-11 June	United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research-European Union Sponsored Regional Seminar on Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty in the Americas and the Carribean	Conventional Arms Trade	Mexico City
15-19 June	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting website	Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology	Vienna
25-26 June	Conference on Article 3 of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Stockpile destruction)	Cluster Munitions	Berlin
30 June-3 July	Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention: 57th Session	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
End June (TBD)	Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters:52nd session	Various	Geneva
	July
1-3 July	Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, 52nd Session (Restricted)	Various	Geneva
6-10 July	Group of Governmental Experts on the continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms, 3rd Session (Restricted)	UN register on Conventional Arms	New York
7-8 July	Regional Workshop in advance of the 2nd Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty	Landmines	Dushanbe (Tadjikistan)
13-17 July	Open-Ended Working Group on Arms Trade Treaty: Second Session	Conventional Arms Trade	New York
21-22 July	United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research-European Union Sponsored Regional Seminar on Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty in the Middle East	Conventional Arms Trade	Amman (Jordan)
	August
3 August-18 September	Conference on Disarmament: Third Part	Various	Geneva
24-28 August	Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction: Meeting of Experts website	Biological Weapons	Geneva
	September
3-4 September	Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Landmine Convention: Second Preparatory Committee	Landmines	Geneva
7-11 September	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
8-9 September	United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research-European Union Sponsored Regional Seminar on Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty in Asia, Central Asia and The Pacific	Conventional Arms Trade	Kuala Lumpur
14-18 September	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
23-25 September	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Article XIV Conference	Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Power	New York
	October
1 October-3 November	First Committee on Disarmament and Insternational Security (United Nations General Assembley, 64th session) website	Various	New York
8-9 October	Regional Workshop in advance of the 2nd Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty	Landmines	Tirana (Albania)
13-16 October	Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention: 58th Session	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
	November
9-10 November	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Third Conference of High Contracting Parties on Protocol V	Explosive Remnants of War	Geneva
11 November	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): 11th Conference of High Contracting Parties on Amended Protocol II website	Mines, bobby traps and other devices	Geneva
12-13 November	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of States Parties website	Inhumane Weapons	Geneva
23-25 November	Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of International Security: First Session	Various	Geneva
26-27 November	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors	Nuclear Weapons	Vienna
30 November-4 December	Second Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention	Landmines	Cartagena (Colombia)
30 November-4 December	Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention: 14th Session	Chemical Weapons	The Hague
	December
10-11 December	United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research-European Union Sponsored Regional Seminar on Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty in East and Southern Africa	Conventional Arms Trade	Addis Abeba (Ethiopia)
7-11 December	Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Annual Meeting of the States Parties website	Biological Weapons	Geneva
2010
1 January	Beginning of a 4th Disarmament Decade A/RES/61/67	Various	Global
26 April - 21 May	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): 8th Review Conference A/RES/61/70	Nuclear Weapons	(TBC)

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