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| Date |
Description |
Issue |
Location |
| January | |||
| 11-13 January | United
Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Conventional Ammunition Stockpiles
in Surplus: Informal meeting website |
Ammunition | Montreux/Glion (Switzerland) |
| 14-18 January | Convention
on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW); Group of Governmental Experts |
Cluster Munitions | Geneva |
| 14-18
January |
United
Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Conventional Ammunition Stockpiles
in Surplus: 1st session (with information
session on 14 January (am) for NGO presentations) |
Ammunition | Geneva |
| 21 January - 28 March | Conference
on Disarmament: 1st part website |
Various | Geneva |
| February | |||
| 11-15
February |
Group
of Governmental Experts on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT): 1st
session website |
Arms Trade | New York |
| 18-22
February |
International
Conference on Cluster Munitions (Fourth International Conference on
the "Oslo Process" on Cluster Munitions) website |
Cluster Munitions | Wellington |
| 20-22 February | United
Nations Secretarial General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters website |
Various | New York |
| 25-29 February | United Nations Panel of Governmental Experts on Missiles: 2nd session | Missiles | New York |
| March | |||
| 3-7 March | International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA): Board of Governors Meeting website |
Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology | Vienna |
| 4-7 March | Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 52nd session of the
Executive Council website |
Chemical Weapons | The Hague |
| 7-8 March | Centre for Nonproliferation Studies workshop on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Nuclear Weapons | Annecy (France) |
| 7-11 March | International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW): 18th World Congress website |
Various | Dehli |
| 10-11 March | International Tracing Instrument on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Workshop for West and Central Africa | Small Arms | Lome |
| 11-12 March | Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons (CCW): Latin America and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Promoting
Universality |
Inhumane Weapons | Dominican Republic |
| 31 March - 1 April | UNIDIR outer space seminar | Outer Space | Geneva |
| 31 March
- 4 April |
United
Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Conventional Ammunition
Stockpiles in Surplus: 2nd session |
Ammunition | New York |
| April | |||
| April (5 days, TBD) |
Open-Ended Working Group on the Fourth Special Session on Disarmament of the UN General Assembly: First Session | Various | New York |
| 7-11 April |
Convention
on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Group of Governmental
Experts, 2nd Session |
Cluster Munitions | Geneva |
| 7-18
April |
Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW):
2nd Review Conference website |
Chemical Weapons | The Hague |
| 7-25 April | United Nations Disarmament Commission | Various | New York |
| 12-19 April | Mine
Action National Directors and UN Advisors: 11th
International Meeting website | contact |
Landmines | Slovenia and Croatia |
| 19 April | Global Day of Action on cluster
munitions website |
Cluster Munitions | Global |
| 21-22 April | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): West & East Africa Workshop on Promoting Universality | Inhuman Weapons | Lomé |
| 24-25 April | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Great Lakes Region and Southern Africa Workshop on Promoting Universality | Inhuman Weapons | Lomé |
| 28 April - 9 May | Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT): Second Preparatory
Committee for the 2010 Review Conference website |
Nuclear Weapons | Geneva |
| May | |||
| May (5 days, TBD) |
Open-Ended Working Group on the Fourth Special Session on Disarmament of the UN General Assembly: Second Session | Various | New York |
| 8-9 May | Geneva
Declaration on Armed Violence and Development: Asia-Pacific
Regional Meeting on Armed Violence and Development |
Armed Violence & Development | Bangkok |
| 12-16 May | Group
of Governmental Experts on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT): 2nd session website |
Arms Trade | New York |
| 12 May - 27 June | Conference
on Disarmament: 2nd Part website |
Various | Geneva |
| 19-30 May | Diplomatic Conference to Negotiate a Cluster Munitions Convention (part of the Oslo Process on Cluster Munitions) | Cluster Munitions | Dublin |
| 23 May - 1 July | 30th Anniversary of the First Special Session on Disarmament (SSOD1) | Various | New York |
| June | |||
| June (5 days, TBD) |
Open-Ended Working Group on the Fourth Special Session on Disarmament of the UN General Assembly: Third Session | Various | New York |
| 2-6 June | United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Missiles: 2nd session | Missiles | New York |
| 2-6 June | Anti-Personnel
Mine Ban Convention: Meeting of Standing Committees |
Landmines | Geneva |
| 2-6 June | International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting website |
Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology | Vienna |
| 11-20 June | United Nations Office for
Outer Space Affairs (OOSA): Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,
51st session website | contact |
Outer Space | Vienna |
| 23-26 June | Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
(CTBTO): 30th session website |
Nuclear Weapons | Vienna |
| Late June | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Middle East and Mediterranean Workshop on Promoting Universality | Inhumane Weapons | Cairo |
| July | |||
| 1 July | Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): 40th Anniversary of the signing of
the NPT website |
Nuclear Weapons | New York |
| 2-4 July | Convention
on Certain Conventional
Weapons (CCW): Informal Meeting of Experts on Protocol V website |
Explosive Remnants of War | Geneva |
| 7-9 July | G8 Summit website |
Various | Hokkaido Toyako (Japan) |
| 7-11 July | United
Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Conventional Ammunition Stockpiles
in Surplus: 3rd session website |
Ammunition | New York |
| 7-25 July | Convention
on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW); Group of Governmental Experts,
3rd Session website |
Cluster Munitions | Geneva |
| 9 July | Small Arms Destruction Day | Small Arms | Global |
| 9-11 July | UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters | Various | Geneva |
| 14-18 July | UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons: Biennial Meeting of States |
Small Arms | New York |
28 July-8
August |
Group
of Governmental Experts on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT): 3rd session website |
Arms Trade | New York |
| 28 July - 12 September | Conference
on Disarmament: 3rd Part website |
Various | Geneva |
| August | |||
| 4-6 August | 20th UN Conference on Disarmament Issues | Various | Japan (Location TBD) |
| 18-22 August | Biological
and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Meeting
of Experts website |
Biological Weapons | Geneva |
| September | |||
| 1-5 September | Convention
on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW); Group of Governmental Experts
on Cluster Munitions |
Cluster Munitions | Geneva |
| 3-5 September | World
Nuclear Association (WNA): 33rd Annual Symposium website | contact |
Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Power |
Geneva |
| 8 September | Geneva
Declaration on Armed Violence and Development: Summit meeting |
Armed Violence & Development |
Geneva |
| 22-26 September | International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting website |
Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology | Vienna |
| 29 September – 3 October | International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): General Conference 52nd session website |
Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Power | Vienna |
| Late September | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): South, South-East & the Pacific Workshop on Promoting Universality | Inhumane Weapons |
Bangkok |
| October | |||
| October (TBC) | First Committee on Disarmement
and Insternational Security (United Nations General Assembley 63rd session) website |
Various | New York |
| 6 October | International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting website |
Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology | Vienna |
| 6-15 October | Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime: Fourth Conference of States
Parties website |
Organized Crime | Vienna |
| 6 October-4 November | First Committee on Disarmament and International Security: United Nations General Assembly 63rd Session | Various | New York |
| November | |||
| 3-7 November | Convention
on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW); Group of Governmental Experts
on Cluster Munitions website |
Cluster Munitions | Geneva |
| 10-11 November | Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons (CCW): Meeting of States Parties to Protocol V website |
Explosive Remnants of War | Geneva |
| 12 November | Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons (CCW): Meeting of States Parties to Amended Protocol II website |
Mines, bobby traps and other devices | Geneva |
| 13-14 November | Convention
on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of States Parties website |
Inhumane Weapons | Geneva |
| 17-20 November | Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
(CTBTO): 31st session website | contact |
Nuclear Weapons | Vienna |
| 24-28 November | Anti-Personnel
Mine Ban Convention: Ninth Meeting of States Parties website | contact |
Landmines | Geneva |
| 27-28 November | International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting
website |
Nuclear Weapons, Energy & Technology | Vienna |
| December | |||
| December (TBC) | International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA): International Conference on Nuclear Security: Global Directions
for the Future |
Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Power | Vienna |
| 1-5 December | Biological
and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC): Annual Meeting of the States Parties website |
Biological Weapons | Geneva |
| 2-5 December | Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 13th session of the
Conference of the State Parties website |
Chemical Weapons | The Hague |
| Second Week of December (2 days) | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Central Asian Workshop on Promoting Universality | Inhumane Weapons | Almaty |
| 2009 | |||
| (TBC) | Anti-Personnel
Mine Ban Convention: Meetings
of the Standing Committees established by the States
Parties website I contact |
Landmines | (TBC) |
| (TBC) | Anti-Personnel
Mine Ban Convention: Second
Review Conference website I contact |
Landmines | (TBC) |
| (TBC) | Meeting
of a Group of Governmental Experts
to review the continuing operation of the UN Register of Conventional
Arms and its further development A/RES/61/77 |
Small Arms | (TBC) |
| 4-5 May | Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT): Third Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference website |
Nuclear Weapons | (TBC) |
| 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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