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External sources (not reviewed)

Publications issued during the period covered by the present report include the proceedings of the March 2006 international Workshop on

While these differences emerged, it is worth noting that a proponent of the definition “special fissionable material plus neptunium” suggested that

The Rio Group urges all members of the Conference to demonstrate the political will necessary to ensure the start, without delay, of its substantive work through the adoption and implementation of a balanced and comprehensive programme of work that moves the nuclear disarmament agenda forward, including negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention, a universal, unconditional and legally binding instrument on negative security assurances for non-nuclear-weapon States, the prevention of an arms race in outer space and a multilateral and

(c) That the Country had submitted annual implementation reports in the form of Appendix 4-A (“Format of Implementation Reports and Plans”) covering each previous calendar year; that it had achieved a significant level of implementation of

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and

The extortion of its citizens by ruthless and callous warlords; the mushrooming and proliferation of piracy along its coasts and adjacent sea lanes; the unconscionable plundering of its maritime resources by

With enhanced engagement and cooperation with Member States, intergovernmental organizations and civil society, the disarmament programme brought forward the need for the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and — after a 10-year impasse — a decision was made by the

Cuba supports the adoption of a programme of work in the Conference on Disarmament, and has said on various occasions that it is prepared to negotiate in parallel a treaty which eliminates and prohibits nuclear weapons, a treaty prohibiting the arms race in outer space, a treaty providing effective security assurances for States

Action 15 of the action plan of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons states that “[…] the Conference on Disarmament should, within the context of an agreed, comprehensive and balanced programme of work, immediately begin negotiations of a treaty banning the

It had also been pushing for negotiations

The violence that followed that event gives further weight to assertions by the previous Group of Experts

Notwithstanding these challenges, 113 children were confirmed to have been recruited by the following armed forces and

Whereas it has been internationally recognized, including by the principal organs of the United Nations, that Armenia unleashed the war, attacked Azerbaijan and occupied its territories, including the Daghlyq Garabagh (Nagorno Karabakh) region, carried out ethnic cleansing on a massive scale, perpetrated other heinous crimes in the course of the war

In its recent midterm report, the Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire pointed out that the political leaders in the north and the south appear unwilling

Noting the need to build on that progress and expand the reach of those institutions, he called on the donor community to continue to assist that important process, especially when those gains were at

Finally, reconciliation as a plank to everyday peace should be envisaged as a process that goes beyond the resolution of armed conflict, as is the

At its meeting during the fifteenth session, the Commission concluded that to prevent future irreversible damage to the marine environment, and taking into account its mandate under article 165, paragraphs (d), (e) and (h), of the Convention, and regulation 31(2) of the Regulations on Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Nodules in the Area,

It was urgent to ensure the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, improve IAEA safeguards and protocols, create a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, promote new disarmament initiatives for the

However, political impetus continues to exist for the achievement of interim measures, including de-alerting, reducing and eliminating non-strategic nuclear weapons, consolidating legal norms against the threat or use of nuclear weapons including by means of further articulating the norms of international humanitarian law, establishing universal legally binding commitments against the threat or use of nuclear weapons in

Pursuant to resolution 1908 (2010), and in the light of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the Secretary-General, in his note on the financing arrangements for MINUSTAH for the period from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 (A/64/728), requested net additional resources of $120,641,800

The latest Declaration by the Heads of CSTO member States, adopted on 10 December 2010 in Moscow, notes that the Organization attaches the highest priority to strengthening the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the swift entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the prevention of nuclear terrorism and the development of

Specifically, substantial progress in the implementation of article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the achievement of a meaningful agreement on all three pillars of the Treaty at the Review Conference in May, the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and the prompt commencement of negotiations on and

In accordance with paragraphs 10 to 12 of its revised reporting guidelines (CERD/C/2007/1), the Committee recommends that the State party

It focused on three essential aspects of post-conflict reconstruction of governance and public administration: (a) the challenges of reconstructing the public service after conflict and the role of the public service in building social cohesion through the effective delivery of services, (b) the prospects for reconstructing government after conflict, with emphasis on decentralization for peacebuilding, and (c) how to