Statements from First Committee 2020

General debate
Informal exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs | Civil society presentations | Regional Groups and GGE Briefings 
Thematic debate (written statements only): Nuclear weapons | Other WMD | Conventional weapons | Other disarmament measures  | Outer space | Regional disarmament | Disarmament machinery

GENERAL DEBATE

Friday, 9 October

• Chair of the First Committee, H.E. Mr. Agustin Santos Maraver of Spain
• President of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir of Turkey
• High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu
• Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• Group of Arab States, delivered by Egypt (Mr.) 
• Nordic Countries, delivered by Iceland (Mr.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Central American Integration System (SICA), delivered by Nicaragua (Mr.)
• Group of African States, delivered by Cameroon (Mr.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Trinidad and Tobago (Mr.)
• Member States of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, delivered by Kyrgyzstan (Ms.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Norway (Mr.) 
• Peru (Mr.)
• Thailand (Mr.)
• Liechtenstein (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Guatemala (Mr.) 
• Finland (Mr.)
• Philippines (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Ms.) 
• Mongolia (Mr.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.) 
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• Iceland (Mr.)

Monday, 12 October

• Ecuador (Mr.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• Armenia (Mr.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Yemen (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Ms.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Argentina (Ms.)
• North Macedonia (Mr.)
• Germany (Mr.)
• Lao PDR (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Bahamas (Ms.)
• Lebanon (Ms.)
• Fiji (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• Sudan (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Belarus (Mr.)
• Libya (Mr.)
• Australia (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• United Arab Emirates (Ms.)
• Qatar (Ms.)
• Namibia (Mr.)
• Lesotho (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Haiti (Ms.)
• Nigeria (Mr.)

Wednesday, 14 October

• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by Mexico (Ms.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Bahrain (Mr)
• India (Mr.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• Ghana (Ms.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Nicaragua (Mr.)
• Czech Republic (Mr.)
• El Salvador (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Ms.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Sri Lanka (Mr.)
• Senegal (Mr.)

Thursday, 15 October

• Cambodia (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Jamaica (Ms.)
• Lithuania (Ms.)
• Latvia (Mr.)
• Honduras (Ms.)
• Chile (Mr.)
• Brunei Darussalam (Mr.)
• Turkey (Ms.)
• Antigua and Barbuda (Ms.)
• Venezuela (Mr.)
• Estonia (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Romania (Mr.)
• Georgia (Mr.)

Friday, 16 October

• New Zealand (Mr.)
• Afghanistan (Mr.)
• Eritrea (Mr.)
• Maldives (Ms.)
• Ethiopia (Mr.)
• Greece (Ms.)
• Singapore (Ms.)
• Azerbaijan (Ms.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• France (Mr.)
• Hungary (Ms.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Tajikistan (Mr.)
• Bulgaria (Ms.)
• Albania (Ms.)
• Nepal (Mr.)
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• Kyrgyzstan (Ms.)
• Uruguay (Mr.)

Monday, 19 October

• De-alerting Group, delivered by Switzerland (Mr.)
• Panama (Mr.)
• Zimbabwe (Mr.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Bolivia (Mr.)
• San Marino (Ms.)
• Botswana (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Montenegro (Ms.)
• Cote d'Ivoire (Mr.)
• Togo (Mr.)
• Tanzania (Mr.)
• Kenya (Mr.)
• Portugal (Mr.)
• Mauritania (Mr.)
• Oman (Mr.)
• Tunisia (Mr.)
• Congo (Mr.)
• Slovakia (Mr.)
• Slovenia (Ms.)
• Guyana (Ms.)
• Myanmar (Mr.)
• Zambia (Mr.)
• Israel (Mr.)
• Morocco (Ms.)
• Denmark (Mr.)
• P5 countries (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States), delivered by France (Mr.)
• Holy See (Mr.)
• Burkina Faso (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• State of Palestine (Mr.)
• League of Arab States (Mr.)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (Ms.)
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) (Mr.)

Informal exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

Tuesday, 13 October

• High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu
• Russia (Mr.)
• Ecuador (Mr.)
• Mexico (Ms.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)

Civil society presentations

Tuesday, 13 October

• Explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA), Ms. Mahpekay Sidiqi, Kabul Orthopedic Organization on behalf of the International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW)
• Small arms and light weapons, Mr. Joseph Dube, International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
• Nuclear weapons, Ms. Ariana Smith, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
• Biological weapons, Ms. Filippa Lentzos, Kings College London
• Joint statement on armed drones, Ms. Brittany Roser, PAX
• Autonomous weapon systems, Mr. Ousman Noor, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
• International arms trade, Ms. Raluca Muresan, Control Arms Coalition
• Incendiary weapons, Ms. Bonnie Docherty, Human Rights Watch
• Landmines, Mr. Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
• Cluster munitions, Mr. Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC)
• Nuclear weapons, Ms. Linnet Ng'ayu, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
• Joint statement on outer space, Ms. Jessica West, Project Ploughshares
• Joint statement cyber peace and human security, Ms. Allison Pytlak, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
• Joint statement on gender and disarmament, Ms. Marieke Eilers, WILPF Germany
• Joint statement on youth and disarmament education, Ms. Cindy Kamtchoum, Pace University
• Protection of the environment in armed conflict, Mr. Doug Weir, Conflict and Environment Observatory
• Joint statement on humanitarian disarmament, Ms. Natalia Morales Campillo, Colombian Campaign Against Landmines 

BRIEFINGS BY REGIONAL GROUPS AND CHAIRPERSONS OF GROUP OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS (GGE)

Monday, 26 October

• Secretary-General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) (Mr.)
• Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on advancing responsible State behavior in cyberspace in the context of international security (Mr.)
• Chair of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (Mr.)

Informal discussion 

• Canada (Ms.)
• Ecuador (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.)

Friday, 30 October 

• Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus (Mr.)
• Chief of the Regional Disarmament Branch, Office for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Mary Soliman
• Director of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, Mr. Anselme Yabouri
• Director of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, Mr. Yuriy Kryvonos
• Director of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Ms. Melanie Regimbal
• President of the Conference on Disarmament, Mr. Yury Ambrazevich 
• Chair of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, Ms. Selma Ashipala-Musavyi
• Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Ms. Renata Dwan

Informal discussion 

• Russia (Mr.)

Action on draft resolutions

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

Cluster one

Tuesday, 3 November 

• European Union
• Russia

Cluster seven

Tuesday, 10 November

• Russia