Overview
The Disarmament and International Security Committee”, or First Committee, is the main Committee of the General Assembly concerned with disarmament and related international security questions. It will hold its eightieth session from 8 October to 7 November 2025. An organizational meeting will take place on 3 October 2025.
The Office for Disarmament Affairs will maintain a public schedule of side events on this web page. Delegations that wish to add their events to this list should send the following details to diane.barnes@un.org and evangelistae@un.org: event title, location (e.g., CR.A), date and time (start and end), Sponsor State(s) and any partnering IGOs/Agencies/NGOs, point-of-contact email address, and links to a registration page or additional information, if applicable. Missions can reserve rooms through the following website: https://conferences.unite.un.org/. Related questions can be sent to gmeets@un.org.
Side Events
Reports of the Secretary-General
Reports of the Secretary-General
- A/80/78 Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security
- A/80/111 Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them and the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
- A/80/133 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Note by the Secretary-General
- A/80/68 Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
- A/80/161 Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context
- A/80/121 Continuing operation of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and its further development: Note by the Secretary-General
- A/80/160 Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
- A/80/134 Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Note by the Secretary-General: Note by the Secretary-General
- A/80/237 Current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts
- A/80/130(PartI) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
- A/80/127 Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament
- A/80/93 Group of Scientific and Technical Experts on Nuclear Disarmament Verification
- A/80/164 Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction
- A/80/163 Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger
- A/80/225 Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
- A/80/124 Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
- A/80/126 Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation
- A/80/227 Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa
- A/80/125 Relationship between disarmament and development
- A/80/348 Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency: Note by the Secretary-General
- A/80/123 Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
- A/80/238 Through-life conventional ammunition management
- A/80/216 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- A/80/254 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Note by the Secretary-General
- A/80/128 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
- A/80/129 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
- A/80/122 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- A/80/226 United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
- A/80/240 Work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
- A/80/165 Youth, disarmament and non-proliferation
