Calendar of Events for First Committee 2013
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Calendar last updated 18 October 2013
| When | What | Where | Who |
| Monday, 7 October 13:15-14:30 |
The Nuclear Security Summit | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the UN Contact: Anne Cukier |
| Tuesday, 8 October 13:15-14:30 |
Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other WMD | Conference Room 7 North Lawn Building |
Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN; Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs Contact: Yasemin Ulu |
| Wednesday, 9 October 13:15-14:30 |
Steps toward a Middle East weapons of mass destruction free zone | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN; NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security Contact: Ann Lakhdir |
| Wednesday, 9 October 13:15-14:30 |
Cyber threats: information as a weapon? | Conference Room A Conference Building |
UNIDIR Contact: Tae Takahashi |
| Thursday, 10 October 13:15-14:30 |
Twenty years of renunciation of nuclear weapons by Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine: lessons learned and prospects of nuclear disarmament | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Permanent Missions of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to the UN; Reaching Critical Will Contact: Nikolai Ovsianko |
| Monday, 14 October 13:15-14:30 |
Briefing to delegates on on the UN Register of Conventional Arms and UN Report on Military Expenditures | Conference Room E North Lawn Building |
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Contact: matsuno[at]un.org |
| Wednesday, 16 October 13:15-14:30 |
The humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons | Conference Room A Conference Building |
UNIDIR Contact: Tae Takahashi |
| Wednesday, 16 October 13:15-14:30 |
Strengtheing non-proliferation: game-changing ideas | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland; British American Security Information Council (BASIC) Contact: rcousins[at]basicint.org |
| Wednesday, 16 October 13:15-14:30 |
Roundtable on transparency in military spending | Conference Room 7 North Lawn Building |
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Contact: matsuno[at]un.org |
| Wednesday, 16 October 19:00-21:00 |
Don't Bank on the Bomb | World Federalist-Global Policy Institute 708 Third Avenue (at 44th St), 24th Floor |
Abolition 2000 NY Metro Contact: Alice Slater |
| Thursday, 17 October 13:15-14:30 |
Humanitarian initiative to prohibit nuclear weapons | Conference Room A Conference Building |
Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the UN; Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs; Reaching Critical Will; Article 36 Contact: Ray Acheson |
| Thursday, 17 October 13:15-14:30 |
FMCT: the GGE and beyond | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Permanent Missions of Canada and the Netherlands; UNIDIR Contact: Tae Takahashi |
| Friday, 18 October 13:15-14:30 |
Panel discussion on nuclear weapons and international law | Conference Room 7 North Lawn Building |
Permanent Missions of New Zealand and Switzerland to the UN Contact: Anthony Simpson |
| Monday, 21 October 13:15-14:30 |
Civil society views on fully autonomous weapons | Conference Room 6 North Lawn Building |
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs; Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Contact: Mary Wareham |
| Monday, 21 October 13:15-14:30 |
Enhancing the practical applications of the ISACS | Conference Room A Conference Building |
UNIDIR Contact: Tae Takahashi |
| Tuesday, 22 October 13:15-14:30 |
How can the ATT help reduce armed violence | TBC | Control Arms Contact: Allison Pytlak |
| Tuesday, 22 October 13:15-14:30 |
Lethal autononomous robotics: shared concerns, different approaches? A dialogue with special rapporteur Christoph Heyns | Conference Room A Conference Building |
UNIDIR Contact: Tae Takahashi |
| Tuesday, 22 October 13:15-14:30 |
2013 Global Fissile Materials Report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials | Conference Room 6 North Lawn Building |
Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN Contact: hideaki.hatanaka[at]mofa.go.jp |
| Tuesday, 22 October 13:15-14:30 |
Cesar Lopez, inventor of the Escopetarra, plays songs of peace | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Contact: John Ennis |
| Tuesday, 22 October 13:15-14:30 |
Multiple perspectives on nuclear disarmament: hibakusha, humanitarian, and youth | 777 UN Plaza, B1 (First Ave & 44th St) |
Peace Boat, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Hibakusha Stories |
| Wednesday, 23 October 13:15-14:30 |
Operationalising the gender-based violence criterion in the Arms Trade Treaty | Conference Room 7 North Lawn Building |
Permanent Mission of Iceland to the UN; Control Arms; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Contact: Allison Pytlak |
| Wednesday, 23 October 18:00-20:30 |
The 2013 Future Policy Awards Ceremony: Celebrating the world's best disarmament policies | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
World Future Council; UN Office for Disarmament Affairs; Inter-Parliamentary Union Contact: Nancy Berr Register |
| Thursday, 24 October 13:15-14:30 |
Ratifying the ATT and achieving entry into force | TBC | Control Arms Contact: Allison Pytlak |
| Thursday, 24 October 13:15-14:30 |
Argentine initiative on disarmament | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Permanent Mission of Argentina to the UN |
| Friday, 25 October 13:15-14:30 |
US-UK briefing on verification | Conference Room 3 Conference Building |
Permanent Mission of the United States to the UN Contact: John Bravaco |
| Tuesday, 29 October 1:15-2:30 |
The challenge of chemical weapons: lessons learned from Syria and the role of the OPCW | Conference Room 6 North Lawn Building |
Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN Contact: mika.ruotsalainen[at]formin.fi |
