2007 CD Work Plan: Nuclear Disarmament

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

2007 CD Work Plan for agenda item 1:
“cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament”
Coordinated by Norway

First part (22.01.2007 – 31.03.2007)

Informal meetings on CD Agenda Item 1: Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament

Objective:
Hear the views of all members, and identify those issues that will require more focused attention during the second part of the annual Session.

Plan:
The first three informal meetings will provide members with an opportunity to point out and elaborate on issues under agenda item 1 that can benefit from further discussion, with a view to future negotiations. Members will recall that during last year´s informal discussions they focussed, inter alia, on the following issues:

a convention prohibiting the development, production, testing, stockpiling, transfer, threat of use or actual use of nuclear weapons and their elimination
phased nuclear disarmament
the establishment of an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament to start negotiations on a phased programme for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons
the link between nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation
a subsidiary body to deal with nuclear disarmament
transparency, irreversibility, verification
the role of nuclear weapons and security policy concepts
de-alerting, de-activation of nuclear systems

The last three informal meetings will examine the current status of nuclear weapon reductions. Experts will provide introductions to the issue (to be identified in collaboration with UNIDIR).

Schedule:
See the Comprehensive Calendar