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Statements from First Committee 2019

General debate
Civil society presentations
GGE briefing
Thematic debateNuclear weapons | Other WMD | Conventional weapons | Other disarmament measures  | Outer space | Regional disarmament | Disarmament machinery
Joint panel discussion

   GENERAL DEBATE

Thursday, 10 October

Friday, 11 October

Monday, 14 October

Tuesday, 15 October

Wednesday, 16 October

Thursday, 17 October

Friday, 18 October

             CIVIL SOCIETY PRESENTATIONS

   BRIEFING BY CHAIRPERSON OF GROUP OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS (GGE)

  • Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on nuclear disarmament verification, H.E. Mr. Knut Langeland of Norway

   THEMATIC DEBATE

   Nuclear weapons

Monday, 21 October

 Tuesday, 22 October

   Other WMD

Tuesday, 22 October 

Wednesday, 23 October

   Conventional weapons

Wednesday, 23 October

Thursday, 24 October 

Conventional weapons Exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and briefings by other high-level officials in the field of arms control and disarmament

  • High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu
  • Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe (OPANAL), delivered by H.E. Mr. Garcia Moritan of Argentina

Conventional weapons

Friday, 25 October

   Other disarmament measures

Friday, 25 October

  • Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
  • Caribbean Community, delivered by Antigua and Barbuda (Mr.)
  • Arab Group, delivered by Tunisia (Mr.)
  • European Union (Ms.)

Tuesday, 29 October

   Outer space

Tuesday, 29 October 

   Regional disarmament 

  • Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
  • Group of Arab States, delivered by Tunisia (Mr.)
  • ASEAN, delivered by Philippines (Ms.)
  • CARICOM, delivered by Bahamas (Ms.)
  • European Union (Ms.)
  • Egypt (Mr.)
  • Iraq (Mr.)
  • Poland (Ms.)
  • Ukraine (Mr.)
  • Cuba  (Mr.)
  • Armenia (Mr.)
  • France (Mr.)
  • Greece (Mr.)
  • Myanmar (Mr.)

Wednesday, 30 October 

   Disarmament machinery

Wednesday, 30 October  

   Joint panel discussion of the First and Fourth Committees on possible challenges to space security and sustainability

Thursday, 31 October

Interactive exchange

  • Philippines (Mr.)
  • United Kingdom, on behalf of a group of states (Mr.)
  • Mexico (Ms.)
  • Brazil (Mr.)
  • European Union (Ms.)
  • United States (Mr.)
  • China (Ms.)
  • Russia (Mr.)
  • Argentina (Ms.)
  • Switzerland (Ms.)
  • Pakistan (Mr.)
  • Colombia (Ms.)

Disarmament machinery

Action on draft resolutions

Explanations of vote attached to specific resolutions are listed on the resolutions page. General statements are listed here.

Cluster 1

Friday, 1 November

  • Austria (Ms.)
  • European Union (Ms.)
  • Cuba (Ms.)
  • New Zealand (Ms.)

Cluster 2

Russia

Cluster 3

Tuesday, 5 November

Egypt
Russia
Cuba
United States
Malaysia