Statements from First Committee 2016

General debate (including civil society presentations)
Panel discussion
Thematic debate: Nuclear weapons | Other WMD | Outer space | Conventional weapons | Other disarmament issues | Regional disarmament | Disarmament machinery

General debate

Monday, 3 October 2016

• Chair of the First Committee, H.E. Mr. Sabri Boukadoum of Algeria
• High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Kim Won-soo
• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by H.E. Ms. Ina Hagninigtyas Krisnamurthi of Indonesia
• Association of South East Asian States (ASEAN), delivered by H.E. Mr. Hau Do Suan of Myanmar
• African Group, delivered by H.E. Mr. Anthony Bosah of Nigeria
• Arab Group, delivered by H.E. Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari of Tunisia
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Ambassador Pennelope Beckles of Trinidad and Tobago
• European Union, Mr. Jacek Bylica, Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-proliferation
• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by H.E. Mr. Amr Aboulatta of Egypt
• Mexico, H.E. Mr. Juan José Gómez Camacho, Permanent Representative
• Chile, H.E. Mr. Cristián Barros
• United States, Mr. Frank Rose
• Kazakhstan, H.E. Mr. Kairat Abdrakhmanov

Tuesday, 4 October 2016

• Australia, Mr. Senator Cory Bernardi
• Finland, Ms. Sannamaaria Vanamo
• Costa Rica, Mr. Ambassador Juan Carlos Mendoza Garcia
• Ghana, Ms. Ambassador Martha A. A. Pobee
• Libya (Mr.)
• Ecuador, Mr. Ambassador Horacio Sevilla Borja
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Tanzania, Mr. Ambassador Tuvako N. Manongi
• Spain (Mr.)
• Austria, Mr. Ambassador Thomas Hajnoczi
• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• South Africa, Mr. Ambassador Matjila
• Peru, Mr. Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra
• Poland, Ms. Ambassador Beata Peksa
• Indonesia, Ms. Ambassador Ina Krisnamurthi
• Philippines, Ms. Ambassador Lourdes O. Yparraguirre
• Germany (Ms.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Argentina (Mr.)
• Sweden (Ms.) 

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

• Saudi Arabia, Mr. Ambassador Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi
• Switzerland, Ms. Sabrina Dallafior
• United Kingdom, Mr. Ambassador Matthew Rowland
• Brazil, Mr. Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
• Viet Nam, Ms. Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga
• Zambia (Mr.)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mr. Dr. Ambassador Khiane Phansourivong
• France, Ms. Ambassador Alice Guitton
• Italy, Mr. Ambassador Vinicio Mati
• Qatar (Mr.)
• Lebanon, Ms. Maya Dagher
• Israel, Mr. Dr. Eyal Propper
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Ambassador Milos Vukasinovic
• Guatemala (Mr.)
• Venezuela, Mr. Ambassador Rafael Ramirez
• Maldives (Mr.)
• Norway, Mr. Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen

Thursday, 6 October 2016

• Paraguay, Mr. Ambassador Marcelo Scappini Ricciardi
• Iraq (Mr.)
• El Salvador, Mr. Ambassador Ruben Zamora
• Cameroon, Mr. Ahidjo
• New Zealand, Ms. Ambassador Dell Higgie
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. Ri Tong Il
• Sri Lanka, Mr. Dr. Ambassador A. Rohan Perera
• Liechtenstein (Mr.)
• Japan, Mr. Ambassador Toshio Sano
• Fiji (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Republic of Moldova, Mr. Ambassador Vlad Lupan 
• Cambodia, Mr. Ambassador Yaungchan Sophea
• Burkina Faso, Mr. Ambassador Eric Y. Tiare
• Georgia, Mr. Ambassador Kaha Imnadze
• Botswana, Mr. Nkoloi Nkoloi
• India, Mr. Ambassador D.B Venkatesh Varma
• Malawi, Mr. Ambassador Necton Mhura
• Portugal, Mrs. Cristina Pucarinho

Friday, 7 October

• Netherlands, Mr. Ambassador Henk-Cor van der Kwast
• Colombia (Mr.)
• Bangladesh, Mr. Ambassador Masud Bin Momen
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Jamaica, Mr. Ambassador Courteney Rattray
• Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), delivered by Mr. Ambassador Franscisco Antonio Cortorreal of Domincan Republic
• Liberia, Mr. Ambassador Lewis G. Brown, II
• Republic of Korea, Mr. Ambassador Oh Joon
• Ethiopia, Ms. Ambassador Mahlet H. Guadey
• Singapore, Mr. John Khoo
• Hungary, Mr. Ambassador Dr. Gyorgy Molnar
• United Arab Emirates, Ms. Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh
• Sudan (Mr.)
• Ireland, Ms. Helena Nolan
• Eritrea, Ms. Elsa Haile
• Nigeria, Mr. Ambassador Abel Ayoko

Monday, 10 October

• Armenia, Mr. Tigran Samvelian
• Bahrain (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Senegal (Mr.)
• China, Mr. Ambassador Wang Qun
• Angola, Mr. Ambassador Ismael A. Gaspar Martins
• Myanmar, Mr. Ambassador U Htin Lynn
• San Marino, Ms. Natascia Bartolini
• Jordan (Mr.)
• Serbia, Mr. Zoran Vujic
• Estonia (Mr.)
• Cote d'Ivoire (Mr.)
• Kenya, Mr. Ambassador Anthony Andanje
• Namibia (Ms.)
• Iran, Mr. Ambassador Hossein Dehghani
• Canada (Ms.)
• Pakistan, Ms. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua
• Mongolia, Mr. Ambassador Sukhee Sukhbold
• Syrian Arab Republic (Mr.)

Tuesday, 11 October

• UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Thomas Markram
• Brunei Darussalam (Ms.)
• Nepal, Mr. Ghana Shyam Lamsal
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Algeria, Mr. Ambassador Mohammed Bessedik
• Afghanistan, Mr. Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal
• Djibouti (Ms.)
• Morocco (Mr.)
• Timor-Leste, Mr. Ivens de Sousa 
• Tunisia (Mr.)
• Malaysia, Mr. Ambassador Ramlan Ibrahim
• Guinea, Mr. Ambassador Mamadi Toure
• Holy See, Mr. Archbishop Bernardito Auza
• Palestine, Mr. Maied Bamva
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), Mr. Ambassador Luiz Filipe de Macedo Soares
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Xolisa Mabhongo

Wednesday, 12 October

• International Committee to the Red Cross (ICRC), Ms. Christine Beerli
• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), delivered by Ms. Jasmin Nario Galace
• Faith communities concerned with the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, delivered by Ms. Emily Welty
• Measures to reduce nuclear risks, delivered by Mr. John Hallam
• International Campaign to Abolish Uranium Weapons (ICBUW), delivered by Mr. Doug Weir
• International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW), delivered by Ms. Alma Taslidžan Al-Osta
• Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, delivered by Ms. Erin Hunt
• Cyberspace and human security, delivered by Ms. Elizabeth Minor
• Outer space, delivered by Mr. Cesar Jaramillo
• Armed drones, delivered by Ms. Maria Pia Devoto
• Global Civil Society Coalition for the Biological Weapons Convention, delivered by Ms. Kathryn Millett
• Cluster Munition Coalition, delivered by Ms. Alexandra Hiniker
• Control Arms, delivered by Ms. Anna Macdonald
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), delivered by Ms. Megan Burke
• International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), delivered by Ms. Nyonsuabeleah Kollue
• Toxic Remnants of War Network, delivered by Ms. Jessica Dorsey
• Incendiary weapons, delivered by Ms. Mary Wareham
• Gender and disarmament, delivered by Ms. Ray Acheson
• Disarmament education, delivered by Ms. Rachel Salcedo
• Sustainable development goals and disarmament, delivered by Mr. Baffour Amoa

Panel

Thursday, 13 October

• President of the General Assembly, Mr. Ambassador Peter Thomson
• High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Kim Won-soo
• Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, Mr. Michael Møller
• Representative of the Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Xolisa Mabhongo
• Director of External Relations of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Mr. Chen Kai
• Representative of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation, Mr. Patrick Grenard 
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), Mr. Ambassador Luiz Filipe de Macedo Soares

Thematic debate

Nuclear weapons

Thursday, 13 October

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Mr. Ambassador Dian Triansyah Djani of Indonesia
• Brazil, Mr. Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
• De-alerting group, delivered by Ms. Ambassador Eva Walder of Sweden
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), delivered by Venezuela (Mr.)
• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by Egypt (Mr.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Mr. Ambassador E. Courtenay Rattray
• New Zealand, Ms. Ambassador Dell Higgie
• Tunisia (Mr.)

Friday, 14 October

• Chair of the open-ended working group on nuclear disarmament, Ambassador Thani Thongphakdi of Thailand
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by the Philippines (Ms.)
• African Group, delivered by Mr. Abel Adelakun Ayoko of Nigeria
• Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative, delivered by Germany
• Collective Security Treaty Organisation, delivered by Mr. Tigran Samvelian of Armenia
• Mexico, Mr. Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco
• Thailand, Ms. Pornprapai Ganjanarintr
• United States, Mr. Ambassador Robert A. Wood
• France, Mr. Louis Riquet 
• Qatar (Mr.)
• Switzerland, Mr. Ambassador Frank Grütter
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Senegal (Mr.)
• Austria, Mr. Ambassador Thomas Hajnoczi
• Netherlands, Mr. Ambassador Henk Cor van der Kwast
• Malawi (Mr.)
• United Kingdom, Mr. Ambassador Matthew Rowland
• Sweden, Ms. Ambassador Eva Walder
• Pakistan, Ms. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua
• Bangladesh, Mr. Ambassador M Shameem Ahsan 
• Israel, Ms. Miehal Sehayek-Soroka
• Costa Rica, Mr. Ambassador Juan Calos Mendoza
• India, Mr. Ambassador D.B. Venkatesh Varma 

Monday, 17 October

• Nordic states, delivered by Mr. Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson of Iceland
• South Africa, Mr. Michiel Combrink
• Sri Lanka (Mr)
• Germany, Mr. Ambassador Michael Biontiono
• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic, Ms. Moukdavanh Sisoulith
• Ireland, Ms. Helena Nolan
• Bulgaria, Mr. Ambassador Georgi Panayotov
• Viet Nam, Mr. Nguyen Doan Minh
• Brazil, Mr. Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota 
• Peru
• Czech Republic, Mrs. Ambassador Marie Chatardová 
• Myanmar, Mr. Ambassador U [-llin Lynn
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• New Zealand, Ms. Ambassador Dell Higgie
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Singapore, Mr. Benson Lin
• Venezuela (Mr.)
• Italy, Mr. Ambassador Vinicio Mati
• Australia, Mr. Ambassador John Quinn
• Ecuador, Mr. Fernando Luque (ES)
• Iran, Mr. Ali Robatjazi
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Romania (Ms.)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. Ri In Il
• Canada, Ms. Ambassador Rosmary McCarney
• Portugal, Mrs. Cristina Pucarinho
• Libya (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• United Arab Emirates (Mr.)
• Germany on behalf of a group of countries
• Norway and Netherlands, delivered by Mr. Knut Langeland of Norway
• Japan, Mr. Ambassador Toshio Sano
• Guatemala, Ms. Soledad Urruela Arenales
• Morocco (Mr)
• Spain
• Lithuania (Ms.)
• Turkey (Ms.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• Palau, Mr. Ambassador Dr. Caleb Otto
• Mongolia on behalf of a group of countries, Mr. Ambassador Sukhee Sukhbold
• Indonesia, Mr. Ambassador Triyono Wibowo
• Norway, Mr. Knut Langeland
• Nigeria, Mr. Ambassador Abel Adelakun Ayoko
• Trinidad and Tobago, Ms. Charlene Roopnarine
• Holy See, Mr. Monseigneur Simon Kassas

Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Monday, 17 October

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Ms.)
• Caribbean Community, delivered by Mr. Ambassador Keith Marshall of Barbados
• Collective Security Treaty Organisation, delivered by Belarus (Mr.)
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), delivered by Venezuela (Mr.) (ES)
• Arab Group, delivered by Tunisia (Mr.)
• European Union, Ms. Judit Koromi
• Nordic states, Mr. Magnus Hellgren
• France, Mr. Louis Riquet (FR)
• Canada, Ms. Ambassador Rosemary McCarney
• Hungary, Mr. Ambassador Dr Gyorgy Molnar

Tuesday, 18 October

• United States, Mr. Ambassador Robert Wood
• India, Mr. Ambassador D.B. Venkatesh Varma
• Italy, Mr. Ambassador Vinicio Mati
• Japan, Mr. Ambassador Tashio Sano
• Pakistan, Ms. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua
• Netherlands, Mr. Ambassador Henk-Cor van der Kwast
• Poland, Mr. Marcin Wroblewski
• Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Yermakov
• South Africa (Ms.)
• United Kingdom, Mr. Guy Pollard
• Bangladesh, Mr. Ambassador M Shameem Ahsan 
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• Australia, Mr. Ian McConville
• Ireland, Ms. Ambassador Patricia O'Brien
• Algeria (Ms.)
• Libya (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Spain, Mr. Julio Herraíz
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Qatar (Mr.)
• Nigeria, Mr. Ambassador Abel Adelakun Ayoko

Outer space

Tuesday, 18 October

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.) 

Conventional weapons

Wednesday, 19 October

• Chair of the Sixth Biennial Meeting on Small Arms, Mr. Ambassador Courteney Rattray
• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Ms.)
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), delivered by Venezuela (Mr.)

Thursday, 20 October

• Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register on Conventional Arms, Mr. Ambassador Paul Beijer of Sweden
• Collective Security Treaty Organisation, delivered by Belarus (Mr.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Mr. Nawin Chirapant of Thailand
• France on behalf of a group of states, Ms. Ambassador Alice Guitton (FR)
• European Union, Ms. Judit Koromi
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Ms. Ambassador Pennelope Beckles of Trinidad and Tobago
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Japan, Mr. Ambassador Toshio Sano
• United States, Mr. Tracy A. Hall
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Yermakov
• Senegal (Mr.)
• Cuba (Mr.)
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• Cambodia, Mr. Ambassador Ry Tuy
• Jamaica, Mr. Ambassador Courteney E. Rattray
• India (Mr.)
• United Kingdom, Ms. Eleonora Saggese 
• Ghana, Mrs. Ambassador Martha A. A. Pobee
• Chile (Mr.)
• Pakistan, Ms. Ambassador Tehmina Janjua
• Netherlands, Mr. Mark Versteden
• Germany (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Mr.) 
• South Africa, Ms. Chantelle Naidoo
• Israel, Ms. Maya Yaron
• Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mr. Soulikone Samounty

Friday, 21 October

• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Guatemala, Ms. Soledad Urruela Arenales
• Ireland, Ms. Ambassador Patricia O'Brien
• Czech Republic, Mr. Vaclav Balek
• Croatia, Mr. Ambassador Vladimir Drobnjak
• Switzerland, Ms. Ambassador Sabrina Dallafior 
• France, Ms. Marie-Gaelle Robles (FR)
• Australia, Mr. Ambassador John Quinn
• Algeria, Mr. Abdelkarim Ait Abdeslam
• Finland, Mr. Kai Sauer
• Venezuela, Mr. Ambassador Rafael Ramirez
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Mali, Mr. Ambassador Issa Konfourou
• Italy, Ms. Palma D’Ambrosio 
• Singapore, Mr. Colonel Lim Tong Hai
• Libya (Mr.)
• New Zealand, Ms. Katy Donnelly
• Austria, Mr. Franz Josef Kuglitsch
• Nigeria, Mr. John Chika Ejinaka
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Latvia (Mr.)
• Niger, Mr. Issa Oumar
• Botswana, Mr. Nkoloi Nkoloi
• China (Mr.)
• Iran, Mr. Ali Robatjazi

Monday, 24 October

• Morocco, Mr. Bouchaib Eloumni 
• Zambia (Mr.)
• Sri Lanka (Mr.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• Sweden, Mr. Magnus Hellgren
• Ethiopia (Ms.)
• Fiji (Mr.)
• Canada, Mr. John Davidson
• Ecuador, Mr. Fernando Luque
• Norway, Mr. Knut Langeland
• Republic of Korea (Ms.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Ms.)
• Lithuania (Ms.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• Burkina Faso, Ms. Ambassador Mariame Fofana
• Yemen (Mr.)

Other disarmament and security issues

Friday, 21 October

• Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security

Regional disarmament and security

Monday, 24 October

• UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Regional Disarmament Branch, Mr. Xiaoyu Wang 
• UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC)
• UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), Ms. Mélanie Régimbal 
• UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD), Mr. Yuriy Kryvonos 
• UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Kim Won-soo
• New Zealand, Ms. Rosalind Dawson

Tuesday, 25 October

• Central Asian States, delivered by Tajikistan (Mr.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Antigua and Barbuda (Ms.)
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), delivered by Venezuela (Ms.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Tunisia (Mr.)
• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Ms.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Mr. Raja Reza Raja Zaib Shah
• Myanmar, Mr. Kyaw Nyunt Lwin
• Iraq (Ms.)
• United States, Mr. Ambassador Robert Wood
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Pakistan, Mr. Yasar Ammar
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Peru (Mr.)
• United Arab Emirates, Mr. Shadi Ali AI Matroushi (AR)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Iran, Mr. Ali Robatjazi
• Central African Republic (Mr.)
• Fiji (Ms.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• France, Ms. Ambassador Alice Guitton (FR)
• Togo (Mr.)
• Armenia (Mr.)
• Azberbaijan (Ms.)

Disarmament machinery

Monday, 24 October

• Conference on Disarmament
• UN Disarmament Commission
• UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs
• UN Institute for Disarmament Research, Mr. Jarmo Sareva

Tuesday, 25 October

• Chair of the Open-ended working group on the Fourth Special Session on Disarmament, Mr. Fernando Luque of Ecuador

Wednesday, 26 October

• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Ms.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Ms. Charmaine Williams of Bahamas
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), delivered by Venvezuela (Ms.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Mr. Gerry Indradi of Indonesia
• Informal Group of States (IGOS), delivered by Guatemala (Mr.)
• Arab Group, delivered by Tunisia (Mr.)
• European Union, Ms. Anne Kemppainen
• France, Ms. Ambassador Alice Guitton
• Canada, Mr. Simon Collard-Wexler (FR)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Yarmakov
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• India, Mr. Siddhartha Nath
• United Kingdom, Mr. Ambassador Matthew Rowland
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Thailand (Ms.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• South Africa, Mr. Martin Ngundze
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Switzerland, Mr. Laurent Masmejean 
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• China (Ms.)

Thursday, 27 October

• Iran (Mr.)
• Spain, Mr. Ambassador Don Julio Herraiz Espana
• Fiji (Ms.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Nepal, Mr. Ghana Shyam Lamsal 
• Malaysia (Ms.)
• Portugal, Mrs. Cristina Pucarinho

Action on resolutions

General statements and explanations of vote attached to specific resolutions are listed on the resolutions page. General statements made on whole clusters are listed here.

Cluster one

• Cuba, Mr. Rodolfo Benitez
• United States, Mr. Ambassador Robert Wood
• Romania (Ms.)
• France, Ms. Ambassador Alice Guitton
• Iran, Mr. Ali Robatjazi
• Egypt (Mr.)