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UN Office for Disarmament Affairs @UNGeneva. Fostering dialogue & bolstering the global #disarmament community’s efforts to safeguard peace & security 🕊🇺🇳
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined May 2019
Apply to the 2025 United Nations Disarmament Fellowship Programme and join this fantastic community of disarmament experts worldwide! 🇺🇳🗺️. 🗓️ Application deadline is 20 January 2025. Application material is available at
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Welcome to the 2024 UN Disarmament Fellows! . The UN Disarmament Fellowship Programme started today in Geneva. 🇺🇳. #DisarmamentFellows #Disarmament
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Did you know, the Broken Chair outside @UNGeneva was made to encourage states to sign the anti-landmine treaty? Originally meant to be temporary, 25 years later the sculpture is still standing today with one simple message: remember the victims of #landmines. #APLC2022 #20MSP
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We are pleased to announce that ODA Geneva's new Chief of Service, Ms. Mélanie Régimbal has begun her new functions. Ms. Régimbal brings 25 years of multilateral disarmament, peace and security experience, most recently as the Director of @UNLIREC. Welcome, Mélanie!
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Dr Zerbo @SinaZerbo of @CTBTO_alerts (here w/ President and DSG of CD) addressed the #ConferenceonDisarmament, where he reflected on the successes of the CTBT and the 2020 NPT Review Conference as an opportunity to “complete the architecture that we have so painstakingly built”
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The 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows were excited to start their week in @UN_Vienna. Stay tuned for more updates on their stay in Vienna. 📢
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. @UN SG @AntonioGuterres urges High Contracting Parties to continue paving the way for the Convention to remain a strong, agile instrument for the pursuit of disarmament that saves lives.
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🪶 On 5 March, we will celebrate the first International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness. Join us and celebrate this first #IDDNPA by sharing a 📸 of yourself with the hashtags #IDDNPA #5March #Disarmament, and tag @ODA_Geneva and @UN_Disarmament.
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The first 2023 session of the GGE on emerging technologies in the area of LAWS started this morning in Geneva. 🇺🇳 #CCWUN #disarmament #GGEonLAWS . ▶️ Participants listened to a video-statement by HR for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu.
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🕊️ The Geneva-disarmament community met at the Palais des Nations today, to exchange opinions on the latest SG's policy brief: "A New Agenda for Peace." 🌍 . Thanks to all participants. We hope to see all of you at the next session!. #Disarmament #NAfP
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📢 Disarmament Fellows - update:. Yesterday, the UN fellows had the pleasure of meeting @rafaelmgrossi, the Director General of the @IAEAorg, during their visit to Vienna. #DisarmamentFellows
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#OnThisDay in 1967, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (or Treaty of Tlatelolco) was opened for signature in Mexico City. 📝 #NWFZ. ▶️ Learn more about this Treaty, by visiting the dedicated webpage:
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The #PalaisdesNations @UNGeneva is covered in snow today, but the work must continue! . The #BWCRevCon reaches the end of its second week. Next week will be the final week of the 9th RevCon.
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🔔 Representatives from the #CCM community stand together to foster a world free from the threat of cluster munitions. #CCM11MSP #ClusterMunitions
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The Group of Governmental Experts to further consider nuclear disarmament verification issues starts its first session today. Find more information here:
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At the @CTBTO (Preparatory Commission) – the 2022 UN Disarmament Fellows had an exciting exchange on current nuclear challenges and the role of CTBTO with organization’s Executive Secretary @_RobFloyd 🌐
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For the first time in the history of the Programme, the UN Disarmament Fellowship visits Africa thanks to the invitation of the Government of Algeria 🇩🇿. @Algeria_MFA . #DisarmamentFellowship
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The participants in the UN Disarmament Fellowship Programme are welcomed at the German Federal Foreign Office @GermanyDiplo in Berlin, at the invitation of the German government 🇩🇪. #DisarmamentFellowship
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Wrapping up the first two weeks of 2023 #DisarmamentFellows 🇺🇳 in Geneva. In these two weeks our Fellows from all around the world received various briefings from experts on disarmament and attended the #ATTCSP9 as well as #SpaceThreatsOEWG. And now, off to @unodavienna 🇦🇹!
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📢 SAVE THE DATE . Session 7 of the Geneva Disarmament Conversation Series will take place next week, Thursday 25 April, at the Palais des Nations. 🗓️. #disarmament
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#Women play a critical role in promoting global peace & security. Last night, @INakamitsu opened an exhibition celebrating the past, present and future contributions of women to the #1972BWC, which celebrates its 50th anniversary year. See the exhibition @UNGeneva until 16 Dec!
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The #ConferenceonDisarmament, under the Presidency of Colombia, adopts a Decision establishing Subsidiary Bodies on the agenda items of the Conference. Congratulations! The CD Secretariat looks forward to continue supporting the substantive work of the Conference.
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Today, the Conference on Disarmament engaged in a meaningful discussion with inputs by young panelists on agenda items 1 and 2 with a keynote speech by the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake. #nucleardisarmament #Youth4Disarmament #Y4D
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In between #Disarmament briefings, the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows had a chance to visit the #Hiroshima 🏯, the @HiroshimaMOCA, and the Miyajima Island Itsukushima ⛩️.
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The fourth session of the #Group of Governmental Experts to further consider Nuclear Disarmament Verification Issues agreed on a consensual report to be submitted to the #UNGA. 🇺🇳. #GGE on NDV #NuclearDisarmamentVerification #UNGA
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The 3rd session of the #OEWG on Reducing Space Threats is still underway in Geneva. 🪐 #OuterSpace. Yesterday, the HR on Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, briefed delegates on the New Agenda for Peace and how the outcome of the OEWG will feed into it. #disarmament
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"Women have always played a crucial role in the development and implementation of disarmament instruments. Their contributions must be acknowledged, and their voices further amplified." by @UN_Valovaya, the DG of @UNGeneva, in the #Conferenceondisarmament yesterday.
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On the margins of the ROK-UN Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues @INakamitsu presented the 2024 Fellows with their certificates of succesfull completion of the #DisarmamentFellowship. 🇺🇳
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Today, the Conference on Disarmament discussed nuclear disarmament verification with the Chair of the GGE on NDV, Jørn Osmundsen. #disarmament #GGEonNDV
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The Group of Governmental Experts to further consider #NuclearDisarmamentVerification issues resumed its work today in @UNGeneva for its third session. 📚 #GGENDV
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The #ConferenceonDisarmament, the single multilateral negotiating forum of the international community, begins its 2020 session next week under the Presidency of Algeria. Relevant info and documents for the 2020 session can be found on the new ODA Meetings Place website.
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To complete the #CTBT exposure, @CTBTO provided the 2023 UN #DisarmamentFellows a demonstration of verification mechanisms: #IMS Monitoring Station, International Data Center, Ops Center and, an actual Onsite Inspection Exercise, a 1st for the Program! What a way to cap the week!
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This morning, the Fellows learnt about conventional weapons issues, discussing #CCWUN and #EWIPA, and drafted a working characterization of #LAWS. 📝 . #DisarmamentFellows
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🕊️ The 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows concluded their 10-week journey in New York 🗽 In total, they visited 12 different countries 🌎, gaining profound insights into #armscontrol, #disarmament, and #nonproliferation. Now, we’re delighted to welcome them as alumni! 🕊️
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Earlier today, our Chief of Service, Ms. Mélanie Régimbal, met with students from the FGV School of International Relations (@FGVRI). 📚🇧🇷 . Thank you for this stimulating discussion on youth and disarmament! 🇺🇳 #disarmament #youth
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Earlier today, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu met with the Chair of the #OEWG on Reducing Space Threats, Mr. Hellmut Lagos. 🪐📝 . They discussed the OEWG and its interconnectedness with processes related to international peace and security.
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That’s a wrap for the first 2023 session of the GGE on LAWS! 🇺🇳 . Thanks to Ambassador Damico for his leadership, and to participants for their engagement. See you all in May for the second session! . #CCWUN #disarmament #GGEonLAWS
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The second 2023 session of the GGE on LAWS started this morning in Geneva under the Chairmanship of Ambassador Damico of Brazil. 🇺🇳🇧🇷. #CCWUN #disarmament #GGEonLAWS. ▶️ If you are not able to join us, you can follow the meeting online on @UNWebTV:
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This morning, our Chief of Service, Mélanie Régimbal, briefed the Conference on Disarmament on the disarmament aspects of the New Agenda for Peace. #OurCommonAgenda . ▶️ Check out the Policy Brief online:
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Every year, the Disarmament Fellowship programme brings together young diplomats to enable them to participate more effectively in the international dialogue on disarmament and security 🌐 .The 2022 Fellows recently had the opportunity to meet a former Amb. @KhalilHashmi
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In #Hiroshima, the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows heard the stories of the #Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bomb. In their honor, we continue to work for the total elimination of #NuclearWeapons. “Let all the souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the evil.”
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📢 Disarmament Fellows - Update. @MOFAJapan_en DG Katsuro Kitagawa welcomed the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows with a dinner at an Izakaya, a genuine Tokyo experience to open their study visit to 🇯🇵.
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Happy #UNDay 🇺🇳 from the @UN_Disarmament Geneva team! We are proud and honored to be part of global efforts to advance global disarmament by facilitating negotiations, deliberations and the implementation of multilateral disarmament instruments 🕊
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Briefings on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation for the Fellows and a CD negotiation simulation on Negative Security Assurances. 📝. #DisarmamentFellowship #DisarmamentFellows
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🚀For all space enthusiasts out there, check out the .report adopted by the GGE PAROS earlier this month on substantial elements of a legally binding instrument!. 📥 #disarmament #PAROS
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The @CTBTO segment for the 2023 UN #DisarmamentFellows visit in @UN_Vienna commenced with briefings on #CTBT: ✅ Legal Framework; ✅ Preparatory Commission and Technical Secretariat; and ✅ Monitoring and Verification.
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📢You have until 22 March to apply to the #2024DisarmamentFellowshipProgramme! . 💻Looking for more info? Check out our website at
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#Disarmament has been central to the work of @UN since its founding. Our #Intro2Disarmament video explains how, throughout history, countries have pursued #disarmament to stop arms races, build trust, and protect people from harm. 🔽 #IDDNPA #5March
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Disarmament Fellows - Update 📢 . The 🇨🇳 Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows to Beijing with a trip to the Great Wall of China and a sumptuous dinner feast.
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🪶 On 5 March, we will celebrate the first International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness. Join us and celebrate this first #IDDNPA by sharing a 📸 of yourself with the hashtags #IDDNPA #5March #Disarmament, and tag @ODA_Geneva and @UN_Disarmament.
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Yesterday, @ODA_Geneva welcomed a group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Messengers visiting the Palais des Nation. 🕊️ . Thank you to all the youth communicators for a World without Nuclear Weapons for sharing powerful messages!. #PeaceMessengers
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📣 Today, the 2023 UN #DisarmamentFellows received a briefing from @SwissMFA @SecurityPolCH in Bern on #Disarmament and #ArmsControl priorities including #MineAction and #ExportControls. 🇨🇭
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#OnThisDay in 1980, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons was adopted. Today, the #CCWUN has 126 High Contracting Parties, who will gather soon in Geneva for their annual meeting. 🇺🇳. ▶️ Read the report of the Conference which adopted the CCW:
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As the #DisarmamentFellowship concludes the 2019 programme, Fellows met @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres, who reaffirmed the critical role that young diplomats play in shaping global peace and security through their work in disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control.
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5 March marks the first International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness #IDDNPA. 🔍 #5March #disarmament . #DYK that 185 countries have committed to ban biological weapons? @BWCISU. ▶️ Learn more about the Biological Weapons Convention:
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🎯 This week, @ODA_Geneva held the third session of the Disarmament Conversation Series on developments in Artificial Intelligence. Thanks to all participants for their active engagement and interest in such a forward-looking topic. 🗣️ . #disarmament #AI
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The second session of the Group of Governmental Experts to further consider Nuclear Disarmament Verification issues this year is taking place in Geneva from 26-30 September🇺🇳
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The first 2024 session of the GGE on LAWS, chaired by Ambassador Robert in den Bosch of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, will take place this week in Geneva. 🇺🇳. ▶️ You can follow the exchanges on @UNWebTV: #disarmament #GGEonLAWS #CCWUN
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Yesterday, the #ConferenceonDisarmament concluded its 2023 session by adopting a consensus report for submission to the #UNGA. CD will resume its work in 2024 and continue to stand as the single multilateral negotiating forum. 🇺🇳
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.@MFA_KZ welcomed the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows to Astana 🇰🇿 with discussions on #Kazakhstan arms control and disarmament positions. Next, 🚅 to Kurchatov to observe field applications of #Disarmament!
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📢 Congratulations to Ambassador Goebel of Germany 🇩🇪 for successfully chairing the 21st MSP of the APMBC. @MineBanTreaty . #minebantreaty #disarmament
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Today the #ConferenceonDisarmament welcomed 37 non-member States to participate in the CD's work. Amb. LI of China @Amb_LiSong welcomed the newly accepted observers, reaffirming the importance of inclusivity and “true multilateralism” in realizing the work of the Conference.
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In Seoul 🇰🇷, the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows were exposed to the security considerations for disarmament through #KoreanWar history. @MOFAkr_eng further briefed the fellows on the #NuclearWeapons situation in the Korean Peninsula and #UNSC sanctions resolutions implementation.
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“A nuclear weapon free world is a more secure world for all of us” - The Federal Minister of Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria @MFA_Austria addressed the #ConferenceonDisarmament at @UNGeneva today.
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Last night, #Geneva's iconic @LeJetdeau was lit up in the colours of the @minebantreaty. The final day of the treaty's #20MSP takes place today. You can follow the livestream here
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Yesterday, our Chief of Service, Ms. Mélanie Régimbal, delivered a statement during the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee regarding the implications of new and emerging technologies in the military domain. #HRC 🇺🇳📚
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#ConferenceonDisarmament, the single multilateral negotiation body on disarmament affairs, today held its last plenary meeting of the 2020 session @UNGeneva. The CD adopted its annual report to the General Assembly under the Presidency of Belarus.
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After a packed disarmament calendar this year, ODA Geneva Branch wishes you a restful and reinvigorating winter holiday period. ❄️🌟☃️. We look forward to continue working with you on strengthening disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control efforts in the new year! 🕊️
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The 2023 UN #DisarmamentFellows had the opportunity to interact with @CTBTO Executive Secretary @_RobFloyd on their last day in @UN_Vienna. They also had briefings from @UNODC and @UNOOSA. Thank you @unodavienna! See you soon @GermanyDiplo! 🇩🇪
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Congratulations to Algeria for the end of their tenure as President of the #ConferenceonDisarmament. Taking a transparent and consultative approach to their Presidency, they worked closely with other Presidents of 2020 to ensure continuity in the CD. Thank you for your efforts!
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📢 Disarmament Fellows - Update. On their last day in @Geneve_int, @VilleDeGeneve welcomed the 2023 UN #DisarmamentFellows to the historic Salle de l’Alabama where the first Geneva Convention was discussed and signed. #IHL @ICRC
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Day 2️⃣ in 🇯🇵…. The 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows called on @MOFAJapan_en VM @fukazawayoichi. They received a briefing on @japan positions on Nuclear #Disarmament #Nonproliferation #PeacefulUses. The Fellows also saw the Daigo Fukuryu Maru on negative effects of #NuclearTesting.
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📢 Disarmament Fellows -Update. 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows directly interacted with #WassenaarArrangement Plenary Chair @JaideepMazumder at the HQ in Vienna 🇦🇹 as part of the Fellows’ exposure to Global #nonproliferation efforts such as #ExportControls regimes.
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As Week 2 of the #BWCRevCon kicks off, learn more about the significance of the treaty in the latest edition of the BWC Brochure ➡️. Available in all 6 official UN languages 🌎
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This morning the 2024 High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament started in Room XVIII of the Palais des Nations, under the presidency of Indonesia. #disarmament #HLS #CD
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Arriving by 🚅 in Kurchatov 🇰🇿, the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows saw ✅ USSR nuclear testing history; ✅ @nnc_kz labs and facilities like radiation safety and experimental nuclear fusion tech; and ✅ @CTBTO verified #IMS Infrasound and Seismic Stations deployed in the field!
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📢Meet Cedric from Cameroon 🇨🇲 one of the Fellows of the 2024 United Nations #DisarmamentFellowship Programme . #MeettheFellows2024
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📢 Announcement: 2023 Edition of the Disarmament Orientation Course completed! . Thank you to all the participants, speakers, and colleagues from @UNIDIR for making it happen. We hope you appreciated these 5 sessions as much as we did. 📚
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The High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament started today in Geneva with a video-statement from the High-Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamistu. ▶️ You can listen to the meeting online: #disarmament #CD #HLS
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The first meeting of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention starts today at @UNGeneva. @BWCISU . #1972BWC #disarmament . ▶️ Couldn't make it to Geneva? You can listen to the audio livestream of the event:
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The #ConferenceonDisarmament meets today at 10am in the Council Chamber @UNGeneva under the Presidency of Algeria. Digital recordings of formal plenaries can be found on and statements on the UNODA Meetings Place website.
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This morning, our Chief of Service, Mélanie Régimbal, delivered opening remarks at the #BioConference. She notably underlined that we need to focus on improving global resilience to future biological risks. #1972BWC @UNIDIR @WHO . 🔗 Join the livestream:
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Now in Pakistan 🇵🇰 , at the Regional CWC Assistance and Protection Centre here in Islamabad, the 2024 Fellows examine Pakistani protective equipment pledged to the OPCW for any emergency in the region. #DisarmamentFellowship #Disarmament
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Next Monday, the first 2023 session of the GGE on emerging technologies in the area of LAWS will start in Geneva. 🇺🇳 #CCWUN #disarmament #GGEonLAWS . ▶️ You can find all the necessary information and official documents on UNODA Meetings Place:
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It's #DisarmamentWeek. #Disarmament has been central to the work of @un since its founding. @un_disarmament's #Intro2Disarmament video explains how throughout history countries have pursued #disarmament to stop arms races, build trust, and protect people from harm.
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In the margins of the High Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament, António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, met with the current incoming and outgoing Presidents of the CD. #ConferenceOnDisarmament #HLS #CD #disarmament
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What better way to start 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣than by finding out about the incredible ways young people across the world are pursuing peace through #disarmament?🕊. Get inspired by reading #Youth4Disarmament’s first publication here👇🏾
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20 years ago the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. @INakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and @UN_Valovaya, SG of the #ConferenceonDisarmament continue to work together to promote gender equality in disarmament.#WPSin2020
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Congratulations to 🇲🇼 Malawi for acceding to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), bringing the number of High Contracting Parties to 126. Welcome to the #CCWUN community!
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It’s a wrap on the CCW Universalization Workshop!. Congrats to the CCW team, and thanks to the participants for these two days of constructive exchanges. #CCWUN #disarmament
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From Seoul, the 2023 🇺🇳 #DisarmamentFellows travelled 🚌 north near the demilitarized zone #DMZ between 🇰🇷🇰🇵. They also went down 73 meters underground to the 3rd of the 4 discovered infiltration tunnels under the DMZ.
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📢 The 4th session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats takes place this week in Geneva. The OEWG will dedicate its work to the consideration and adoption of its report to the UN General Assembly. #OEWGSpace #SpaceSecurity #ReducingSpaceThreat
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This year, we celebrated many anniversary milestones in disarmament. We adapted to new ways of working in order to continue upholding the vital disarmament architecture. We wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season, and look forward to working with you next year!
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