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Due to these ongoing tensions, instead of creating an international monitoring organization— similar to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which implements the Chemical Weapons Convention—the BWC instituted an implementation support unit (ISU) that is housed in the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs in Geneva. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is an international organization in its own right and is managed by a large technical secretariat, which is composed of both political appointees from member states and permanent staff. The technical secretariat focuses on verification of compliance with and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. By contrast, the ISU/16C37624830EDAE5C12572BC0044DFC1?OpenDocument) has a permanent staff of just <anchor>three people</anchor>/360CC676E10CE1B0C12572DB004A3647?OpenDocument). The ISU’s mandate/F8521A510F455706C12573A6003F49F2?OpenDocument) is not verification and monitoring but rather to offer administrative support and help facilitate confidence-building measures among members.
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[**HR Ms. Nakamitsu briefs the Security Council on the threats to International Peace and Security**](https://front.un-arm.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240913.HR_.SeCo_.Ukraine.pdf)

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10 Sep 2024

[**High Representative delivers remarks to the Twelfth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions**](https://front.un-arm.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240910.HR_.remarks.CCM_.pdf)

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### [YLF Participants Organize the Youth Leader Conference](https://disarmament.unoda.org/update/ylf-participants-organize-the-youth-leader-conference/ )

On 29 August, Participants of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) held the inaugural Youth Leader Conference. Streamed from Hiroshima, Japan, the event took place in English and Japanese. The recordings, in English and Japanese, are available directly below. To view and download the official Conference Booklet, click here. Notably, \[…\]

On 29 August, Participants of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) held the inaugural Youth Leader Conference. Streamed from Hiroshima, Japan, the event took...

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### [Youth Leader Fund Participants Adopt DeclarACTION](https://disarmament.unoda.org/update/youth-leader-fund-participants-adopt-declaraction/ )

On 29 August, Participants of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) held the inaugural Youth Leader Conference in Hiroshima, Japan. At this milestone event,...

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### [Les experts du Mécanisme du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies participent à une formation sur la gestion des scènes de crime biologique](https://disarmament.unoda.org/update/les-experts-du-mecanisme-du-secretaire-general-des-nations-unies-participent-a-une-formation-sur-la-gestion-des-scenes-de-crime-biologique/ )

En collaboration avec l’Unité de prévention du bioterrorisme d’INTERPOL et le Laboratoire national de microbiologie de l’Agence de la santé publique du Canada, le Bureau des affaires de désarmement...

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### [UNSGM experts join training course on biological crime scene management](https://disarmament.unoda.org/update/unsgm-experts-join-training-course-on-biological-crime-scene-management-2/ )

From 26-30 August 2024, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), in cooperation with INTERPOL’s Bioterrorism Prevention Unit and the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory,...

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### [2024 Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship Programme](https://disarmament.unoda.org/update/2024-youth-for-biosecurity-fellowship-programme/ )

From June to August 2024, the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) carried out the second edition of the Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship Programme in the framework of its...

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# OUR WORK

The main units of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

[**Weapons of Mass Destruction**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/)

[Support to multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation efforts with respect to weapons of mass destruction (WMD).](https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/)

[**Conventional Arms**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/conventional-arms/)

[Focusing disarmament and arms control efforts on all weapons not considered WMD, including small arms and light weapons (SALW).](https://disarmament.unoda.org/conventional-arms/)

[**Regional Disarmament**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/regional-disarmament/)

[The enhancement of global disarmament and international peace and security through the support and promotion of regional disarmament efforts.](https://disarmament.unoda.org/regional-disarmament/)

[**Transparency and Confidence-building**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/transparency-and-confidence-building/)

[Confidence building measures are meant to prevent or reduce the occurrence of ambiguities and suspicions to improve international cooperation in disarmament and arms control.](https://disarmament.unoda.org/transparency-and-confidence-building/)

[**Other Disarmament Issues**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/other-disarmament-issues/)

[Other disarmament issues include UNODA’s work in education, youth, gender, multilateralism, information security and outer space, among other areas.](https://disarmament.unoda.org/other-disarmament-issues/)

# FEATURED CONTENT

Featured stories and events from the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

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[**UNODA Meetings Place: the portal for official and other disarmament meetings**](https://meetings.unoda.org/)

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[**UNODA Documents Library: the portal for documents of official disarmament meetings**](https://library.unoda.org)

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[**The note verbales requesting Member States their inputs for the reports of the Secretary-General on disarmament issues**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/requests-for-the-views-of-member-states-2021/)

Those note verbales can be accessed at the above link

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[**Fourth session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction to be held 13-17 November 2023 at UNHQ**](https://disarmament.unoda.org/fourth-session-mezfnwowmd-2023/)

# EVENTS

See whats happening in UNODA.

#### October 2 - November 3, 2023

#### New York

General Assembly First Committee

#### November 8 - 8, 2023

#### Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

#### November 9 - 10, 2023

#### Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Group of Experts

#### November 13 - 13, 2023

#### Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Protocol V Annual Conference

#### November 14 - 14, 2023

#### Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Annual Conference

#### November 15 - 17, 2023

#### Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Meeting of High Contracting Parties

#### November 27 - December 1, 2023

#### New York

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons — Second Meeting of States Parties

#### December 4 - 8, 2023

#### Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Working Group on the strengthening of the Convention

#### December 11 - 13, 2023

#### Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Meeting of States Parties

#### September 13, 2024

#### **Today**

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