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Statements from the first Conference of States Parties of the ATT

Monday, 24 August

High level segment

  • Governor of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Mr. Roberto Borge Angulo
  • UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
  • President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Peter Marer
  • President of the Arias Foundation, Mr. Oscar Arias
  • Director of Transitions, Mr. Alex Gálvez
  • Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Kim Won-soo
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mr. José Antonio Maede Kuribreña
  • Costa Rica, Mr. Manuel González Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Luxembourg, Mr Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
  • Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dacic, First Deputy Prime Minister and minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Switzerland, Mr. Didier Burkhalter, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
  • CARICOM, delivered by Mr. Winston Dookeran, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago 
  • Yemen, Mr. Riad Yassin, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Saint Lucia, Mr. Alva Baptiste, Minister of External Affairs, International Trade & Civil Aviation
  • Jamaica, Mr. Arnaldo Brown, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
  • Finland, Mr. Samuli Virtanen, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
  • United Kingdom, Mr. Tobias Ellwood, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • Guatemala, Mr. José Rodrigo Vielmann de León, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Denmark, Ms. Susanne Rumohr Heakkerup, Undersecretary for Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and Arms Control
  • Dominican Republic, Mr. Ricardo L. Rosa Chupany, Vice Minister for Arms Control
  • El Salvador, Carlos Alfredo Castaned Magaña, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Integraion and Economic Development
  • Argentina, Ms. Carolina Pérez Colman, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Zambia, Mr. Rayford Mbulu, Deputy Minister Of Foreign Affairs, MP
  • Austria, Ambassador Thomas Hajnoczi
  • Australia, Ambassador John Quinn
  • Germany, Mr. Bernhard Schlagheck, Director for Export Control, Federal Foreing Office
  • Montenegro, Mr. Milorad Scepanovic, Director General for Multilateral Affairs and Regional Cooperation
  • Norway, Ms. Ingunn Vatne
  • Ireland, Ambassador Sonja Hyland
  • France, Ambassador Alice Guitton
  • Portugal, Mr. André Sobral Cordeiro, Head od Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Division
  • Paraguay, Mr. Raul Martinez Villalba
  • Iceland, Mr. Pétur Thorsteinsson
  • Japan, Ambassador Toshio Sano
  • Samoa, Ms. Ida Tifitifi Fuimaono
  • Netherlands, Ambassador Dolf Hogewoning
  • Belize, Ambassador  George Lovell, Cheif Excecutive Officer, Ministry of National Security
  • South Africa, Ambassador Sandile Nogxina 
  • Senegal, Mr. Isidor Marcel Sene 
  • Italy, Ambassador Alessandro Busacca
  • Antigua and Barbuda, Ambassador Walton Webson
  • Croatia, Ambassador Danijel Medan
  • Albania, Ambassador Ferit Hoxha
  • Sweden, Ambassador Paul Beijer
  • Guyana, Ms. Deborah Yaw, Director Acting, Multilateral and Global Affairs
  • Bahamas, Ambassador Elliston Rahming 
  • New Zealand, Ambassador Dell Higgie
  • Spain, Mr. Enrique Mora, Director General for Foreign Policy and Security 
  • Slovakia, Mr. Karol Mistrik 
  • Hungary, Ambassador György Molnár, Director General, Department of Security Policy and Nonproliferation 
  • Poland, Mr Michal Miarka 
  • Panama, Ambassador Manuel Ricardo Pérez González 
  • Liechtenstein, Mr. René Holbach 
  • Nigeria, Ambassador E.E. Imdhe, Chairman, Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons 
  • Mali, Mr. Mahamadou Keita 
  • Togo
  • Uruguay
  • Thailand
  • Malaysia, Ambassador Mohammad Azhar Mazlan
  • Peru, Ambassador Hugo Flores Morales, Director of Security and Defense
  • Singapore, Ambassador Foo Khee Loon
  • Chile, Mr. Julio Bravo, Director of Human Security and International Security
  • Colombia, Adviser Alfonso Orduz Trujillo

Tuesday, 25 August

Opening of the conference and procedural matters

  • President of the first Conference of States Parties, Ambassador Jorge Lomónaco of Mexico
  • Facilitator on Rules of Procedure, Mr. Guillaume Michel of Mexico
  • CARICOM, delivered by Trinidad and Tobago
  • European Union
  • President of the first Conference of States Parties, Ambassador Jorge Lomónaco of Mexico
  • Co-Facilitators on Financial Rules, Ghana and Australia
  • Colombia
  • Facilitator on Secretariat, Ambassador Alice Guitton of France
  • Facilitator on Reporting, Ambassador Paul Beijer of Sweden
  • President of the first Conference of States Parties, Ambassador Jorge Lomónaco of Mexico

High level segment

  • Haiti, Ambassador Henri-Robert Sterlin, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs 
  • Burkina Faso, Mr. Zerbo Dibana 
  • United States, Mr. Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
  • Philippines, Ambassador Catalino Dllem
  • Honduras, Ambassador Giampaolo Rizzo-Alvarado
  • Republic of Korea, Ambassador Ham Sang-wook 
  • Brazil, Ambassador Paulo Tarrisse de Fontonura, Director Department of International Organizations 
  • Bangladesh, Ambassador Rokebul Haque
  • Turkey, Ambassador Basat Öztürk, Director General for International Security Affairs 
  • Mozambique, Mr. Jaime Chissano 
  • Tanzania, Mr. Edward V. Masalla 
  • Israel
  • Lithuania
  • China, Mr. Ji Haojun 
  • European Union, Ambassador Jacek Bylica, Special Envoy for Non-proliferation and Disarmament 
  • Organisation of American States, Ambassador Alfredo Forti, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the OAS
  • Wassenar Arrangement on Export Controls, Ambassador Philip Griffiths, Head of the Secretariat 
  • Control Arms, Ms. Anna Macdonald, Director
  • Amnesty International, Mr. Marek Marczynski, Head of Military, Security and Police
  • ASD Europe, Ms. Elli Kytömäki