United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 2008: Part I : Disarmament Resolutions and Decisions of the Sixty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly / UNODA.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Series:

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, 2412-1193 ; no.33.

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, 2412-1193 ; no.33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disarmament.

Local Subjects:

Disarmament.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (565 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The volume 33 (Part I&II) compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, the voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First Committee report and dates of their adoption. It summarizes developments and trends in 2008 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels. Reviews the activity of the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission. Contains a timeline that highlights events in multilateral disarmament in 2008.

Contents:

Preface

Quick view of votes by cluster (54 resolutions and 4 decisions)

63/36. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: Report of the conference on disarmament

63/37. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

63/38. Establishment of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free zone in the region of the Middle East

63/39. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure Non-Nuclear-Weapon states against the use or threat of use of Nuclear Weapons

63/40. Prevention of an arms race in outer space

63/41. Decreasing the operational readiness of Nuclear Weapons systems

63/42. Implementation of the convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction

63/43. Regional disarmament

63/44. Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

63/45. Confidence-Building measures in the regional and subregional context

63/46. Nuclear disarmament

63/47. Reducing nuclear danger

63/48. Implementation of the convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and on their destruction

63/49. Follow-Up to the advisory opinion of the international court of justice on the legality of the threat or use of Nuclear Weapons

63/50. Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation

63/51. Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control

63/52. Relationship between disarmament and development

63/53. Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva protocol

63/54. Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium

63/55. Missiles

63/56. Mongolia's international security and Nuclear-Weapon-Free status

63/57. Information on confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms

63/58. Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments

63/59. Compliance with non-proliferation, arms limitation and disarmament agreements and commitments

63/60. Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction

63/61. Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus

63/62. Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures

63/63. Establishment of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free zone in Central Asia

63/64. The Hague code of conduct against ballistic missile proliferation

63/65. Nuclear-Weapon-Free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas

63/66. Assistance to states for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them

63/67. Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities

63/68. Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities

63/69. Transparency in armaments

63/70. United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education

63/71. Convention on cluster munitions

63/72. The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

63/73. Renewed determination towards the total elimination of Nuclear Weapons

63/74. United Nations regional centre for peace, disarmament and development in Latin America and the Caribbean

63/75. Convention on the prohibition of the use of Nuclear Weapons

63/76. United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament

63/77. United Nations regional centre for peace and disarmament in Asia and the Pacific

63/78. Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations standing advisory Committee on Security questions in Central Africa

63/79. United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services

63/80. United Nations regional centre for peace and disarmament in Africa

63/81. United Nations disarmament information programme

63/82. Report of the conference on disarmament

63/83. Report of the disarmament commission

63/84. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East

63/85. Convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects

63/86. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

63/87. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

63/88. Convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their destruction

63/240. Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international strandards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms

63/517. Maintenance of international security - good-neighbourliness, stability and development in South-Eastern Europe

63/518. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

63/519. Convening of the fourth special session of the general assembly deveoted to disarmament

63/520. United Nations conference to identify appropriate ways of elminating nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear disarmament

List of reports and notes of the Secretary-General

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Multilateral disarmament timeline: Highlights, 2008

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation

Biological and chemical weapons

Conventional weapons issues

Regional disarmament

Related issues and approaches, including disarmament machinery

Governmental expert studies, information/education and United Nations research

Status of multilateral arms regulation and disarmament agreements

Convention on cluster munitions

Joint ministerial statement on the CTBT

Security Council resolutions

Disarmament resolutions and decisions listed by chapter

Abbreviations and acronyms.

ISBN:

9789210542739

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