Significant Events in Disarmament July-December 2003

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SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
IN DISARMAMENT
JULY- DECEMBER 2003

Some of these dates
are tentative and
are subject to change.

including international and regional fora, inter-governmental organization meetings,
and grassroots actions

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July 2003

dates	event	contact info	location

5 - 9	12th OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session	Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Kärntner Ring 5-7, 4th floor, 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43-1 514 36 180 Fax: +43-1 514 36 105 http://www.osce.org/ Email: info@osce.org	Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
7 - 11	Biennial Meeting on the Status of the implementation of the SALW Programme of Action	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: honwana@un.org	New York
8-12	Biennial meeting of States to consider the implementation of the Programme of Action on Small Arms	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: maponga@un.org	New York
16-18	Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (2nd Session)	Department for Disarmament Affairs, Xiaoyu Wang Email: wangxy@un.org	Geneva
21 - 1 August	3rd Meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: kamal@un.org	New York
22	IAEA International Conference on the Safety of Transport and Radioactive Material	IAEA P O Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, AUSTRIA Tel : +43 (1) 2600 – 0 Fax : +43 (1) 2600 – 7 e-mail: Official.Mail@iaea.org	Vienna
28 - 10 Sept	Conference on Disarmament (3rd session)	Secretariat of the Conference on Disarmament Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Tel: 917.2281 Fax: 917.0123	Geneva
28 - 10 Sept	Conference on Disarmament (3rd session)	Secretariat of the Conference on Disarmament Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Tel: 917.2281 Fax: 917.0123	Geneva
10	Local Peace Activists to meet the US Navy Fleet arrival at SEAFAIR	Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action website: www.gzcenter.org Email: info@gzcenter.org telephone: Flen Milner (206) 365-7865	Elliott Bay, Seattle, USA

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August 2003

dates	event	contact info	location

2-11	International Week of Actions on the anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	see The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability or United for Peace and Justice calendars for a comprehensive listing of actions and events in commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki;	worldwide
1-3	Speak out at STRATCOM: An international weekend of education, demonstration, action and solidarity against new weapons of mass destruction- a counter-conference opposite Pentagon Strategic Command meeting	Nebraskans for Peace www.sos2003.com Email: sos2003@bugeaters.net	Omaha, Nebraska
2-15	Coulport International Disarmament Camp	Trident Ploughshares www.tridentploughshares.org/coulport David MacKenzie email: tp2000@gn.apc.org	Coulport, Scotland
TBA (for 5 days)	20th Ministerial Meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: maponga@un.org	Malabo
3-9	2003 World Conference Against A & H Bombs	World Conference Against A & H Bombs Organizing Committee 2-4-4 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-874764 Japan Email: antiatom@topaz.plala.or.jp	Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
8-10	August Desert Witness	Nevada Desert Experience nevadadesertexperience.org Email: nde@peacenet.org	Nevada, USA
9	Candlelight Vigil, Nagasaki Day	Nagasaki Day Commitee Yuko Tokuhisa Email: yuko@haguepeace.org	Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York City
10 1:30 PM	Hands Around Livermore Lab	Tri-Valley CARES www.trivalleycares.org RSVP: www.californiapeaceaction.org/hands Email: taradorabji@yahoo.com	Livermore, California
10 10:00 AM	Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Disarmament Begins At Home Nonviolent March, Rally and Action for Peace	Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance Student Environmental Coalition www.stopthebombs.org Ralph Hutchison orep@earthlink.net 865-483-8202 / 865-609-2012	Bissell Park & Gates of Y-12 Bomb Plant Oak Ridge, Tennessee
11	Bike for Peace: Commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Bike for Peace www.bike-for-peace.de/bfp2005.htm City of New Haven Peace Commission email: Alfred L. Marder, amistad.nai@rcn.com	New Haven, Connecticut
19-22	UN Conference on "Arms Control, Multilateral Disarmament and Their Future"	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Elizabeth Poole Email: poolee@un.org	Osaka, Japan

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September 2003

dates	event	contact info	location

8-10	NGO/DPI Conference	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017	New York
3-5	Conference on Facilitating the Entry Into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: dasilva@un.org CTBTO Preparatory Commission Vienna International Centre PO Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 26030 6375, Fax: +43 1 26030 5823, Email: info@ctbto.org, http://www.ctbto.org	Vienna
TBA (September-November)	Disarmament Fellowship Programme	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: zaleski@unog.ch	Geneva, New York
TBA	Wassenaar Arrangement Expert Group	Wassenaar Arrangement Secretariat Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 960 03 Fax: +43 1 960 031 or 032 Email: secretariat@wassenaar.org http://www.wassenaar.org	Vienna
1-12	CTBTO: 21st Session, Part II, Working Group B	CTBTO Preparatory Commission Vienna International Centre PO Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 26030 6375, Fax: +43 1 26030 5823, Email: info@ctbto.org, http://www.ctbto.org	Vienna
15-19	IAEA Board of Governors Meeting	IAEA P O Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, AUSTRIA Tel : +43 (1) 2600 – 0 Fax : +43 (1) 2600 – 7 e-mail: Official.Mail@iaea.org	Vienna
22-26	CTBTO: Advisory Group	CTBTO Preparatory Commission Vienna International Centre PO Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 26030 6375, Fax: +43 1 26030 5823, Email: info@ctbto.org, http://www.ctbto.org	Vienna
23-26	Fifth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and On Their Destruction	International Campaign to Ban Landmines Tel: 1-202-547-2667 Email: icbl@icbl.org Web: http://www.icbl.org/	Bangkok
22 - October 3	Group of Governmental Experts of States Parties to the CCW (6th Session)	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: bogomolov@un.org	Geneva
29- October 3	CTBTO Working Group A, Twenty third Session	CTBTO Preparatory Commission Vienna International Centre PO Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 26030 6375, Fax: +43 1 26030 5823, Email: info@ctbto.org, http://www.ctbto.org	Vienna
TBA	MTCR Plenary Meeting	Point-of-contact for MTCR affairs. Address: Argentina http://www.mtcr.info/	Buenos Aires, Argentina

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October 2003

dates	event	contact info	location

4-11	Keep Space for Peace Week	See Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space for a FULL GLOBAL LISTING OF EVENTS IN YOUR AREA! Bruce K. Gagnon Email: globalnet@mindspring.com	Worldwide
6	UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security OPENS	substantive inquiries: Department for Disarmament Affairs Sari Nurro, WMD Branch Email: nurro@un.org	New York
6- Nov 9	NGO SIDE EVENTS DURING FIRST COMMITTEE	Please see the First Committee Calendar	New York
16-19	Depleted Uranium and other Uranium Weapons: Trojan Horse of a Nuclear War An International Educational/Organizing Conference	University of Hamburg For Mother Earth www.uranwaffenkoferenz.de Email: marion@motherearth.org	Hamburg, Germany
25	International Citizens' Inspection Week	For Mother Earth Maria Hendrikaplein 5 9000 Gent Belgium tel. +32-9-242 87 52 fax. +32-9-242 87 51 international@motherearth.org	At a nuclear facility near YOU!
24-25-26	Nuclear Disarmament Days	Mouvement de la Paix-France Maison du Peuple 8 Bd Laurent Gerin 69200 Venissieux, France Tel +33 4 72 51 79 06 Dominique Lalanne Email: jdn@mvtpaix.org	Venissieux, France
TBA	OPCW, Executive Council	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Headquarters Johan de Wittlaan 32 2517 JR - The Hague The Netherlands http://www.opcw.org/html/global/calendar.html	The Hague
TBA	UNGA 58: First Committee	Department for Disarmament Affairs, New York, NY 10017, USA contact Sari Nurro: nurro@un.org	New York
TBA	NATO Parliamentary Assembly	NATO Parliamentary Assembly 3, Place du Petit Sablon 1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32(0)2/513.28.65 Fax: +32(0)2/514.18.47 E-mail: secretariat@naa.be	Orlando, Florida
TBA	Nuclear Suppliers Group: PLM Part I-II	TBA	TBA
6-10	PrepCom for CTBT, Working Group A, and informal/experts meetings	CTBTO Preparatory Commission Vienna International Centre PO Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 26030 6375, Fax: +43 1 26030 5823, Email: info@ctbto.org, http://www.ctbto.org	Vienna
24	UN Day		Worldwide

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November 2003

dates	event	contact info	location

5-6	OPANAL General Conference	Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean Schiller 326, 5 Piso Col. Chapultepec Morales, Mexico DF 11570 ph: (52-55) 52 55-4198 fax: 52 55-3748 Email: info@opanal.org	La Habana, Cuba
TBA	General Assembly votes on First Committee	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY 10017, USA	New York
7-9	From Nuclear Dangers to Cooperative Security: Parliamentarians and the Legal Imperative for Nuclear Disarmament	Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament PO Box 23-257, Cable Car Lane Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand Alyn Ware Email: alyn@pnnd.org co-sponsors Global Security Institute, Liu Institute for Global Issues, Middle Powers Initiative, The Simons Foundation	Vancouver, Canada
9	Neopeace Summit	Neopeace Summit Organizers Email: neopeacesummit@yahoo.com phone: (202) 365-6786 fax: (301) 765-6091 coming soon: www.neo-peace.net	Washington, DC
10-14	OPCW: Eighth Session Conference of States Parties	OPCW Johan de Wittlaan 32 2517 JR- The Hague The Netherlands +31 (70) 416-3300	The Hague
10-14	Prep Com, CTBT, 21st session	CTBTO PO Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 26030 6375, Fax: +43 1 26030 5823, Email: info@ctbto.org, http://www.ctbto.org	Vienna
10-14	Annual Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapon Convention	Secretariat of the Conference on Disarmament Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Tel: 917.2281 Fax: 917.0123 Contact: Mr. Roman- Morey	Geneva
11-18	Peace Camp	International Peace Pilgrimmage with La Trobe University http://nuclearfreefuture.tripod.com	Melbourne, Australia
12-16	European Social Forum	L'association pour le Forum Social Europeean Adresse Postale: Boite Postale 6594-75065 fax: +01 44 55 38 55 Email: inforum@fse-esf.org	St. Denis, Paris, France
15	Annual Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction	OPCW Johan de Wittlaan 32 2517 JR- The Hague The Netherlands +31 (70) 416-3300 UN Geneva Office Palais des Nations 8-14, avenue de la Paix CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Fax: 41-22-917-0034	Geneva
15-16	Nuclear conference	International Peace Pilgrimmage http://nuclearfreefuture.tripod.com	Melbourne, Australia
17-24	CCW Group of Governmental Experts 6th Session Meetings	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Geneva, Switzerland http://disarmament.un.org:8080/ccw/index.html	Geneva
17-21	First Meeting of Group of Governmental Experts on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: kamal@un.org	Geneva
22-24	Global Citizen’s Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons	Abolition 2000 c/o Pax Christi USA - 532 West 8th Street - Erie, PA 16502 USA Tel (814) 453-4955 - Fax (814) 452-4784 - admin@abolition2000.org	Nagasaki
25	International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women	United Nations Department for Public Information Email: dpingo@un.org	Global
26	Annual Meeting of States Parties to CCW Amended Protocol II	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Geneva, Switzerland http://disarmament.un.org:8080/ccw/index.html	Geneva
27-28	Fifth Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II to the CCW	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: bogomolov@un.org	Geneva

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December 2003

dates	event	contact info	location

1-5	Meeting of States Parties to the CCW	Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations New York, New York 10017 Email: bogomolov@un.org	Geneva
13-15	Peace Action Protest against US military bases on foreign soil	Menwith Hill Women's Peace Campaign Helen John Phone: 44(o) 1943 468593 Email: helenmenwith@yahoo.co.uk	Kettlesing Head A59 Road Menwith Hill, UK

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