Experts Consider Responses in the Case of Alleged Use of Biological Weapons The 2010 Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was held in Geneva from 23 to 27 August 2010. The Meeting was held to discuss and promote common understanding and effective…

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today: I am delighted that the Convention on Cluster Munitions enters into force on 1August2010. This new instrument is a major advance for the global disarmament and humanitarian agendas, and will help us to counter the…

Concludes First Part of 2010 Session The Conference on Disarmament, which finishes the first part of its 2010 session this week, heard addresses this morning from Laura Kennedy, the new Permanent Representative of the United States, and from Canada. Croatia also made a statement on behalf of an…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2010 session on Tuesday, 19 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will open under the presidency of Ambassador Abdul Hannan of Bangladesh.…