"Security Through a Nuclear Weapon-Free
World," panel presentation co-sponsored by the Parliamentary
Network for Nuclear Disarmament, the Middle Powers Initiative
and the Global Security Institute
Launch of the UN Cyberschoolbus Disarmament
Education Portal, sponsored by the UN Office for Disarmament
Affairs and the Department of Public Information
"Exploring Cooperative Approaches to Security
in Space," panel event co-sponsored by the Global Security
Institute, the Secure World Foundation, the Government of Russia,
the Government of China, and the United Nations Institute for
Disarmament Research
John Hallum
Nuclear Flashpoints
Tel: 61-2-9810-2598
Email: foesyd4@ihug.com.au
Wednesday, October 17
10am-1pm
3pm-6pm
First Committee Thematic Debate:
1. Exchange with High Representative for Disarmament
Affairs and other High-Level Officials on the “Current
state of affairs in the field of arms control and disarmament
and role of the respective organizations” Panel: High
Representative (ODA), Director-General (IAEA), Director-General
(OPCW), Executive Secretary (Preparatory Commission for CTBTO),
Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament
2. Nuclear Weapons
Conference Room 4
Wednesday, October 17
1:15-2:45pm
ATT Submissions Analysis, sponsored by Control
Arms
Conference Room 4
Mark Marge
International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
Tel: +1 (646) 257 4130
Fax: +1 (866) 261 2174
Email: mark.marge@iansa.org
Thursday, October 18
3:00-6:00
First Committee Thematic Debate:
1. Nuclear weapons (cont'd)
Conference Room 4
Friday, October 19
1:15-2:30pm
Launch of the EU/UNODA Joint Action on Promoting
the Universality of Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
(CCW) and its Protocols
First Committee Thematic Debate:
1. Other weapons of mass destruction
Panel on the 10th anniversary of the CWC/OPCW
Conference Room 4
Monday, October 22
10:00am-1:00pm
First Committee Thematic Debate:
1.Other weapons of mass destruction (cont’d)
2.Outer space (disarmament aspects)
Presentation by the Chairman of the Committee on the Peaceful
Uses of Outer Space on the 40th anniversary of the Outer Space
Treaty
3.Conventional weapons
Exchange with the Chairman of the Group of Governmental Experts
to consider further steps to enhance international cooperation
in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering
in small arms and light weapons
Conference Room 4
Monday, October 22
1:15-2:45pm
Screening of Final Frontier, sponsored
by the Global Security Institute
First Committee Thematic Debate:
1.Conventional weapons (cont’d)
Panel on the 10th anniversary of the opening for signature of
the Mine Ban Convention
2.Other disarmament
measures and
international security
Exchange with the Chairman of the Group of Governmental Experts
on Verification
Conference Room 4
Tuesday, October 23
1:15-2:45
Submissions Analyis with ATT co-authors &
Control Arms
Conference Room TBD
Mark Marge
International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
Tel: +1 (646) 257 4130
Fax: +1 (866) 261 2174
Email: mark.marge@iansa.org
Wednesday, October 24
10:00am-1:00pm
First Committee Thematic Debate:
Regional disarmament and security
Panel: High Representative (ODA), Chief of the Regional Disarmament
Branch, Directors of the three UN Regional Centers for Peace
and Disarmament
Thursday, October 25
10:00am-1:00pm
First Committee Thematic Debate:
Disarmament machinery
Panel: President of CD, Chairman of UNDC, Chairperson of Advisory
Board on Disarmament Matters, Director of UNIDIR, Chairman of
OEWG on SSOD IV
Follow-up of resolutions
and decisions adopted by the Committee at its past session/Presentation
of reports
High Representative (ODA)
Conference Room 4
Thursday, October 25
1:15-2:45pm
The Contribution of Nuclear Weapon Free Zones
to Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Speakers:
H.E. L M Gumbi, Perm. Rep. of South Africa to the UN in Vienna;
H.E. Dr. Nurbek Jeenbaev, Perm. Rep. of the Kyrgyz Republic
to the UN;
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, chief of the Turaga nation of Pentecost
Island in Vanuatu, former Minister of Health, and a leader in
the nuclear-free and independent Pacific movement;
Dr. Carlos Vargas Pizarro, Vice-President of IALANA and International
Law Professor, University of Costa Rica
Screening of the animated film Nagasaki
1945-Angelus Bell, sponsored by the NGO Committee on Disarmament,
Peace and Security, Mushi Productions Co. Ltd., and UNODA, with
support from the Permament Mission of Japan to the United Nations
Ending Impunity, Forging Accountability: Implementation
of Security Council Resolution 1325 in Burma, sponsored by Global
Action to Prevent War and the Global Justice Center
Church Center
777 UN Plaza
1st floor: Chapel
Waverly de Bruijn
Global Action to Prevent War
Tel: +1 (212) 818-1815
Fax: +1 (212) 818-1857 coordinator@globalactionpw.org
