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Disarmament Calendar
2009

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Last updated 20 July 2009

Date

Event

Contact

Location

JANUARY

TBD	Open-Ended Working Group on SSOD IV (Organizational Meeting)		New York, USA
19 January– 27 March	Conference on Disarmament, Part One	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's CD page	Geneva, Switzerland
19	Launch of 'Beyond War, A New Economy Is Possible: Yes We Can' campaign	United for Peace and Justice	USA
23	One-day organizational session of the Open-ended Working Group on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)		New York, USA
26–27	International Renewable Energy Agengy (IRENA) Inaugural Meeting	IRENA	Bonn, Germany
29	45th anniversary of Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb		Global
31	Europe Against US Missile Defence Conference	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament	London, UK

FEBRUARY

13–14	International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, second meeting	www.icnnd.org	Washington, DC, USA
16–20	The continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms		Geneva, Switzerland
16–20	CCW Group of Governmental Experts on cluster munitions, first session		Geneva, Switzerland
17–20	55th Session of the Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention		The Hague, The Netherlands
18	Day of Protest Against US Missile "Defence" in Europe	NonViolence.cz or Europe for Peace	Brussels, Belgium
18–20	Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, fifty-first session		New York, USA
25–26	Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Campaign Conference	www.carbonfreenuclearfree.org	Takoma Park, MD, USA
27 Februrary– 2 March	Security without Empire: National Organizing Conference on Foreign Military Bases	GGold[at]afsc.org (617) 661-6130 www.projectonmilitarybases.org	Wasington, DC, USA

MARCH

2–6	IAEA Board of Governors		Vienna, Austria
2–6	First session of the Open-ended Working Group on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)		New York, USA
4–6	Latin American Conference to Ban Radioactive Uranium Weapons: International Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) Annual Conference	http://amigosparalapaz.org/conference/ Isabel Macdonald, Coordinator The Friends Peace Center ducongress[at]amigosparalapaz.org	San José, Costa Rica
13–14	Workshop on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty	Centre for Non-Proliferation Studies	Annecy, France

APRIL

13 April– 1 May	UN Disarmament Commission	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's UNDC page	New York, USA
14–17	CCW Group of Governmental Experts on cluster munitions, second session		Geneva, Switzerland
16–18	International Conference Against the Asia Pacific Missile Defense and for the End of Arms Race	Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space globalnet[at]mindspring.com	Seoul, South Korea
20–21	CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Amended Protocol II (Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices)		Geneva, Switzerland
20–24	The continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms		New York, USA
21–24	56th Session of the Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention		The Hague, The Netherlands
22–24	CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Protocol V (Explosive Remnants of War)		Geneva, Swtizerland
27 April– 1 May	Group of Governmental Experts to review the continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms (second session)		Geneva, Switzerland
27–28	Meeting of Focal Points of Nuclear-weapon-free Zones and Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar	Amarsanaa Adiya (Mr.) Second Secretary Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the UN 6 E77th St, New York, NY, 10075 cell:(+1)646-427-1848 tel: (+1) 212-861-9460 fax: (+1) 212-861-9464 orloy[at]yahoo.com	Conference hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
TBD	Three separate regional meetings on the implementation of the Programme of Action as follow-up to the Third Biennial Meeting of States

MAY

4–15	Third Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's NPT page	New York, USA
18 May– 3 July	Conference on Disarmament, Part Two	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's CD page	Geneva, Switzerland
25–29	Anti-Personnel Landmine Convention Standing Committees		Geneva, Switzerland
28–29	Hague Code of Conduct, 8th Regular Meeting		Vienna, Austria
29	First Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Landmine Convention		Geneva, Switzerland

JUNE

3–12	Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space	COPUOS	Vienna, Austria
8–9	CTBTO Preparatory Committee, 32nd session	CTBTO	Vienna, Austria
15–19	IAEA Board of Governors	IAEA	Vienna, Austria
22 June– 3 July	The continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms		New York, USA
22–24	International Meeting on Nuclear Energy and Proliferation in the Middle East	The Arab Institute for Security Studies	Amman, Jordan
30 June– 3 July	57th Session of the Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention		The Hague, The Netherlands
TBD	Regional workshop on transparency in armaments (West Africa)		TBD

JULY

1–3	Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, 52nd session	Geneva, Switzlerland
6–10	Group of Governmental Experts on the continuing operation and further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms, third session	New York, USA
7–8	Workshop on Achieving a Mine-Free Central Asia	Dushanbe, Tajikistan
8–9	Regional meeting for the countries of East and Southern Africa on the implementation of the small arms programme of work (UN PoA)	Kigali, Rwanda
13–17	Open-ended Working Group on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), second session	New York, USA
21–22	UNIDIR/EU sponsored Regional Seminar for the Middle East on Promoting Discussions on an Arms Trade Treaty	Amman, Jordan

AUGUST

3 August– 18 September	Conference on Disarmament, Part Three	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's CD page	Geneva, Switzerland
17–21	Group of Governmental Experts on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) - Informal Consultations	UN Office at Geneva, GGE sessions in 2009	Geneva, Switzerland
24–28	Expert Meeting on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction	UN Office at Geneva, BTWC Meeting of Experts	Geneva, Switzerland
26–28	21st United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues		Niigata, Japan

SEPTEMBER

3–4	Second Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Landmine Convention		Geneva, Switzerland
7–11	IAEA Board of Governors	IAEA	Vienna, Austria
8–9	UNIDIR/EU sponsored Regional Seminar for Asia, Central Asia, and the Pacific on Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
9–11	62nd Annual DPI/NGO Conference: "For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!"	UN Department of Public Information (DPI)	Mexico City, Mexico
14–18	IAEA General Conference	IAEA	Vienna, Austria
22	IAEA Board of Governors	IAEA	Vienna, Austria
23–25	Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Article XIV Conference	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's CTBT page	New York, USA

OCTOBER

1	UNGA First Committee Organizational Meeting	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's First Comm page	New York, USA
5 October– 3 November	UNGA First Committee	info[at]reachingcriticalwill.org See RCW's First Comm page	New York, USA
13–16	58th Session of the Executive Council of the Chemical Weapons Convention		The Hague, The Netherlands

NOVEMBER

6–8	Reaching Nuclear Disarmament–the Role of Civil Society in Strengthening the NPT	Swedish Network for Nuclear Disarmament	Stockholm, Sweden
9–10	CCW Third Conference of HCP on Protocol V (Explosive Remnants of War)		Geneva, Switzerland
11	CCW Eleventh Conference of HCP on Amended Protocol II (Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices)		Geneva, Switzerland
12–13	CCW Annual Meeting of HCP		Geneva, Switzerland
13–15	International Peace Bureau Annual Conference	Colin Archer, IPB secgen[at]ipb.org www.ipb.org	Washington, DC
16–19	CTBTO Preparatory Commission, 33rd session	CTBTO	Vienna, Austria
24–26	Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security, 1st session		Geneva, Switzerland
26–27	IAEA Board of Governors	IAEA	Vienna, Austria
30 November– 4 December	Second Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention		Cartagena, Colombia
30 November– 4 December	Fourteenth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention		The Hague, The Netherlands

DECEMBER

7–11	Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction		Geneva, Switzerland
10–11	UNIDIR/EU sponsored Regional Seminar for East and Southern Africa on Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty		Addis Ababa, Ethiopia