Statements from First Committee 2021

General debate
Exchange with the UN High Representative
Civil society statements
Thematic debate I (Nuclear weapons, other WMD, outer space, and conventional weapons) 
Informal interactive exchange
Thematic debate II (Other disarmament measures and international security, regional disarmament and security, and disarmament machinery)
Informal interactive exchange
Action on draft resolutions (general statements per cluster)

GENERAL DEBATE

Monday, 4 October

• Chair of the First Committee, H.E. Mr. Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations
• High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu
• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Trinidad and Tobago (Mr.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Thailand (Mr.)
• Central American Integration System (SICA), delivered by Guatemala (Mr.)
• Nordic Countries (Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark), delivered by Denmark (Ms.)
• Group of African States, delivered by Ghana (Mr.)
• European Union (Ms.)
• Group of Arab States, delivered by Palestine (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Ms.)
• South Africa (Ms.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• Yemen (Mr.)
• Nepal (Mr.)
• Ecuador (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• India (Mr.)
• Georgia (Mr.) 
• Sweden (Ms.)

Tuesday, 5 October

• Indonesia (Mr.) 
• Mongolia (Mr.)
• Nigeria (Mr.)
• Jamaica (Mr.)
• Ethiopia (Mr.)
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• Cambodia (Ms.)
• Germany (Mr.)
• Burkina Faso (Mr.)
• Colombia (Mr.)
• China (Mr.) (Chinese)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Armenia (Mr.)
• Libya (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Philippines (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• Eritrea (Ms.)
• United Arab Emirates (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Ms.)
• Senegal (Mr.)
• France (Mr.)
• Finland (Ms.)

Wednesday, 6 October

• Iceland (Mr.)
• Kenya (Mr.)
• United States (Ms.)
• Honduras (Mr.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Maldives (Ms.)
• Cuba (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Kyrgyz Republic (Ms.)
• Sri Lanka (Mr.)
• Bahrain (Mr.)
• Chile (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Saudi Arabia (Mr.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.) [Russian]
• Iran (Mr.)
• Argentina (Ms.)
• Latvia (Mr.)
• Côte d'Ivoire (Mr.)
• Jordan (Mr.)
• Thailand (Mr.)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic (Ms.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Estonia (Mr.)
• Timor-Leste (Mr.)
• New Zealand (Ms.)
• Nicaragua (Mr.)
• Belarus (Mr.)
• Venezuela (Mr.)

Thursday, 7 October

• P5, delivered by France (Mr.) (French)
• China and Russia, delivered by China (Mr.)
• Greece (Mr.)
• Qatar (Ms.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Ms.)
• Myanmar (Mr.)
• Norway (Ms.)
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• Trinidad and Tobago (Mr.)
• San Marino (Ms.)
• Peru (Mr.)
• Azerbaijan (Mr.)
• Cameroon (Mr.)
• Tajikistan (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Oman (Mr.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Lebanon (Ms.)
• Ghana (Ms.)
• Singapore (Ms.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• Bolivia (Mr.)
• Lesotho (Ms.)
• Canada (Ms.) (French)
• Syria (Mr.)

Friday, 8 October

Exchange with the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, including on the follow-up to the resolutions and decisions adopted by the Committee at its previous sessions/presentation of reports (virtual)

• Informal statement from the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu 
• Ecuador (Mr.)

Civil society statements

• Joint statement on gender, delivered by Ms. Laura Varella, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Landmines, delivered by Ms. Habbouba Aoun, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (Arabic)
• Cluster munitions, delivered by Ms. Habbouba Aoun, Cluster Munition Coalition (Arabic)
• Autonomous weapons, delivered by Mr. Ousman Noor, Stop Killer Robots 
• Joint statement on the protection of the environment in armed conflict, delivered by Ms. Linsey Cottrell, Conflict and Environment Observatory
• Nuclear weapons, delivered by Ms. Maureen Penjueli, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (video)
• Nuclear weapons, delivered by Ms. Danielle Samler, Lawyer's Committee for Nuclear Policy 
• International arms trade, delivered by Ms. Cindy Ebbs, Control Arms
• Explosive weapons in populated areas, delivered by Mr. Cesar Jaramillo on behalf of the International Network on Explosive Weapons
• Incendiary weapons, delivered by Ms. Bonnie Docherty, Human Rights Watch
• Joint statement on outer space, delivered by Jessica West, Project Ploughshares
• Joint statement on cyber peace, delivered by Allison Pytlak, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Joint statement on youth and disarmament education, delivered by Mr. Jeremiah Williams, Pace University
• Biological weapons, delivered by Ms. Philippa Lentzos, Kings College London
• Small arms and light weapons, delivered by Ms. Mayda de Leon, International Action Network on Small Arms (Spanish)
• Joint statement on humanitarian disarmament, delivered by Ms. Farah Bogani, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots 

Monday, 11 October

• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by South Africa (Mr.)
• Slovenia (Mr.)
• Lithuania (Mr.)
• Romania (Mr.)
• Kuwait (Mr.)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Haiti (Ms.)
• Tunisia (Mr.)
• Zambia (Mr.)
• Namibia (Mr.)
• Uruguay (Ms.)
• Equatorial Guinea (Mr.)
• Kiribati (Mr.)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Morocco (Mr.)
• Liechtenstein (Ms.)
• Botswana (Mr.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Tanzania (Mr.)
• Bulgaria (Ms.)
• Portugal (Mr.)
• Madagascar (Mr.)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mr.)
• Mauritania (Mr.)
• Zimbabwe (Mr.)
• Holy See (Mr.)
• Palestine (Mr.)

Tuesday, 12 October

• Sierra Leone (Mr.)
• Israel (Mr.)
• Dominican Republic (Mr.)
• Brunei-Darussalam (Mr.)
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) (Mr.)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (Ms.)
• League of Arab States (Mr.)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Ms.)

THEMATIC DEBATE I: Nuclear weapons, other WMD, outer space, and conventional weapons

Tuesday, 12 October

• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Malaysia (Mr.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Trinidad and Tobago (Mr.)
• European Union (Ms.)
• League of Arab States, delivered by Palestine (Mr.)
• Mexico (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• Finland (Ms.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• Nigeria (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Bulgaria (Ms.)
• Senegal (Mr.)
• Cameroon (Ms.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Ecuador (Mr.)

Wednesday, 13 October

• African Group, delivered by Ghana (Mr.)
• New Agenda Coalition, delivered by South Africa (Mr.)
• Canada (Ms.) (French)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Qatar (Mr.)
• Sri Lanka (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Singapore (Ms.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.) (Russian)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Austria (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Hungary (Mr.)
• Nepal (Ms.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Norway (Mr.)
• Thailand (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Lithuania (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Australia (Ms.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Burkina Faso (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Ukraine (Mr.)
• China (Mr.) (Chinese)
• Cuba (Mr.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• India (Mr.) 
• France (Mr.)
• Mozambique (Ms.)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Czech Republic (Ms.)
• President of the General Assembly, H.E. Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives 
• Mr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
• Sweden (Ms.)
• Myanmar (Mr.)
• Togo (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• Italy (Mr.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• Guatemala (Mr.)
• Slovakia (Mr.)
• Ghana (Ms.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic (Mr.)
• Spain (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Germany (Ms.)
• Kiribati and Kazakhstan, delivered by Kiribati (Mr.)
• Eswatini (Mr.)
• Angola (Mr.)
• Portugal (Mr.)
• Paraguay (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Ms.)
• Colombia (Ms.)
• Argentina (Ms.)
• Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Armenia (Mr.)
• Azerbaijan (Mr.)
• Guyana (Ms.)
• Holy See (Mr.)
• Côte d'Ivoire (Mr.)

Thursday, 14 October

• Italy on behalf of a group of countries (Mr.)
• New Zealand (Ms.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)

INFORMAL INTERACTIVE EXCHANGE

Friday, 15 October

• Secretary-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean(OPANAL), Ambassador Mr. Flávio Roberto Bonzanini 
• Head of the First United Nations Division, International Organisations Department
• Chair of the Seventh Biennial Meeting of States to the UNPoA, Ambassador Mr. Martin Kimani of Kenya
• Chair of the Sixth Group of Governmental Experts on advancing responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, Ambassador Mr. Guilherme Patriota of Brazil
• Chair of the Open-ended working group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security, Ambassador Mr. Jürg Lauber of Switzerland
• Informal questions and remarks from Egypt, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Netherlands, Singapore, and Russia

THEMATIC DEBATE II: Other disarmament measures and international security, regional disarmament and security, and disarmament machinery

Monday, 18 October

• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), delivered by Indonesia (Mr.)
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM), delivered by Trinidad and Tobago (Mr.)
• Group of Francophone Ambassadors, delivered by Cote d'Ivoire (Mr.)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), delivered by Brunei-Darussalam (Ms.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Group of Arab States, delivered by Palestine (Mr.)
• Netherlands (Mr.)
• Mexico (Ms.)
• Ecuador (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• South Africa (Mr.)
• Algeria (Mr.)
• Bangladesh (Mr.)
• Canada (Ms.) (French)
• Iraq (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.) (Russian)
• Viet Nam (Mr.)
• Austria (Ms.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• United Kingdom (Mr.)
• Thailand (Mr.)
• Cuba (Mr.)
• Australia (Mr.)
• Ireland (Mr.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Georgia (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Ms.)
• China (Mr.) (Chinese)
• India (Ms.)
• Republic of Korea (Ms.)
• Estonia (Ms.)
• 53 co-sponsors of the proposal for a cyber programme of action, delivered by France (Ms.)
• Czech Republic (Ms.)
• Sweden (Mr.)
• Togo (Mr.)
• Switzerland (Mr.)
• Turkey (Mr.)
• United States (Mr.)
• Costa Rica (Ms.)
• Poland (Mr.)
• Philippines (Mr.)
• Hungary (Ms.)
• France (Ms.)
• Nepal (Ms.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• Colombia (Ms.)
• Ethiopia (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Holy See (Mr.)

INFORMAL INTERACTIVE EXCHANGE

Thursday, 21 October

• Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts on problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus, Mr. Marcus Bleinroth of Germany
• Deputy Chief of ODA’s Regional Disarmament, Information and Outreach Branch, Mr. John Ennis
• Director of the UN Regional Centre in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), Ms. Melanie Regimbal
• Director of the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD), Mr. Yuri Kryvonos
• Director of the UN Regional Centre in Africa (UNREC), Mr. Anselme N. Yabouri
• President of the Conference on Disarmament, H.E. Mr. Frank Tressler of Chile
• Chair of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. H.E. Amb. Selma Ashipala-Musavyi of Namibia
• Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Mr. Robin Geiss
• Informal question from Mexico

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

Wednesday, 27 October

Cluster 1 (Nuclear weapons)

• Austria (Ms.)
• Brazil (Mr.)
• Canada (Ms.)
• Argentina (Ms.)
• Venezuela (Mr.)
• Indonesia (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• Japan (Mr.)
• Kazakhstan (Mr.)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• European Union (Mr.)
• Myanmar (Mr.)

Cluster 2 (Other weapons of mass destruction)

• Poland (Mr.)

Monday, 1 November

Cluster 3 (Outer space)

• Mexico (Ms.)
• United Kingdom (Ms.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• Egypt (Mr.)
• Cuba (Ms.)
• France (Mr.)

Cluster 4 (Conventional weapons)

• Mali (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• Colombia (Ms.)

Tuesday, 2 November

Cluster 5 (Other disarmament measures)

• United States (Mr.)
• Republic of Korea (Ms.)
• Pakistan (Mr.)
• Russia (Mr.)
• China (Mr.)
• Belarus (Mr.)
• Iran (Mr.)
• Syria (Mr.)
• Venezuela (Mr.)

Wednesday, 3 November

Cluster 6 (Regional disarmament)

• Algeria (Mr.)
• Malaysia (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)
• European Union (Mr.)

Cluster 7 (Disarmament machinery)

• Russian Federation (Mr.)
• Philippines (Ms.)

Combined cluster on outstanding resolutions (Nuclear and Other WMD)

• Russian Federation (Mr.)