Information for the Media

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• 4 November 2014
  Record-Breaking Participation in Debates, Passage of 63 Drafts — Largest Number in Decade — Notes First Committee Chair as Session Draws to Close

• 28 October 2014
  Cyber Warfare, Unchecked, Could Topple Entire Edifice of International Security, Says Speaker in First Committee at Conclusion of Thematic Debate Segment

• 27 October 2014
  Speakers in First Committee Urge Balance of Conventional Forces in Hotbeds of Tension, Non-Militarization of Outer Space
  

• 24 October 2014
  Mission to ‘Remove and Destroy’ Chemical Weapons in Syria Unprecedented, but Reports of Chlorine Gas Use Troubling, First Committee Hears
  

• 24 October 2014
  China Hosts Visit by Security Council’s 1540 Committee, 23 to 24 October
  

• 23 October 2014
  Discourse on Nuclear Weapons Eclipsed in First Committee as Focus Shifts to ‘Pervasive and Long-lasting’ Effects of Conventional Arms
  

• 22 October 2014
  Destabilizing Stocks of Conventional Weapons Preoccupy First Committee as Speaker Describes Amount Spent on ‘Breeding, Exacerbating and Maintaining’ Conflict
  

• 21 October 2014
  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Unimplemented, Becomes ‘Place-Holder’ for States to ‘Insert Disarmament Measures Here’, First Committee Told
  

• 20 October 2014
  Rejecting Calls for ‘Wholesale’ Approaches to Disarmament, United States Speaker Tells First Committee Achievable Results Will Not Be Realized Overnight
  

• 17 October 2014
  Dysfunction in United Nations Disarmament Machinery Has ‘Insidious Effect’ of Stopping People from Listening to Each Other, First Committee Told
  

• 16 October 2014
  ‘Choose Wisely’ between Static or Dynamic Future, High Representative Warns First Committee as It Considers Deadlock in Disarmament Machinery
  

• 15 October 2014
  Strategies Contemplating Nuclear Weapons Use, Acquisition by Terrorists Fortify Case for Their Elimination, Say First Committee Speakers

• 14 October 2014
  Development of New Warfare Technologies Like ‘Killer Robots’ Raises Concerns in First Committee about Machines Taking ‘Life-and-Death’ Decisions

• 13 October 2014
  Speakers in First Committee Signal Appetite for Accelerating Disarmament, Spotlighting Cross-Border ‘Hotbeds of Tension and Conflict’

• 10 October 2014
  Speakers in First Committee Question Rationale for Nuclear Weapons Retention, Say Thwarting Conventional Arms Flows ‘Weakest Link’ in Control Efforts

• 9 October 2014
  Winning ‘Battle of Ideas’ First Step in Long, Hard Fight to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told during Wide-Ranging Debate

• 8 October 2014
  Nuclear Weapons Not Used Since 1945, But World ‘Cannot Rely on Luck Indefinitely’, First Committee Hears, as Speakers Grapple with Profound Implications

• 7 October 2014
  Collective Security Can Be Assured by Finding Common Ground amid Primacy
  Of National Positions, Members Told at Start of Session