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<h2>Disarmament and International Security</h2>
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<ul><li>4 November 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3517.doc.htm" target="_blank">Record-Breaking Participation in Debates, Passage of 63 Drafts — Largest Number in Decade — Notes First Committee Chair as Session Draws to Close</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>28 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3512.doc.htm" target="_blank">Cyber Warfare, Unchecked, Could Topple Entire Edifice of International Security, Says Speaker in First Committee at Conclusion of Thematic Debate Segment</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>27 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3510.doc.htm" target="_blank">Speakers in First Committee Urge Balance of Conventional Forces in Hotbeds of Tension, Non-Militarization of Outer Space<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>24 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3510.doc.htm" target="_blank">Mission to ‘Remove and Destroy’ Chemical Weapons in Syria Unprecedented, but Reports of Chlorine Gas Use Troubling, First Committee Hears<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>24 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/dc3530.doc.htm" target="_blank">China Hosts Visit by Security Council’s 1540 Committee, 23 to 24 October<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>23 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3509.doc.htm" target="_blank">Discourse on Nuclear Weapons Eclipsed in First Committee as Focus Shifts to ‘Pervasive and Long-lasting’ Effects of Conventional Arms<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>22 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3508.doc.htm" target="_blank">Destabilizing Stocks of Conventional Weapons Preoccupy First Committee as Speaker Describes Amount Spent on ‘Breeding, Exacerbating and Maintaining’ Conflict<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>21 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3507.doc.htm" target="_blank">Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Unimplemented, Becomes ‘Place-Holder’ for States to ‘Insert Disarmament Measures Here’, First Committee Told<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>20 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3506.doc.htm" target="_blank">Rejecting Calls for ‘Wholesale’ Approaches to Disarmament, United States Speaker Tells First Committee Achievable Results Will Not Be Realized Overnight<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>17 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3505.doc.htm" target="_blank">Dysfunction in United Nations Disarmament Machinery Has ‘Insidious Effect’ of Stopping People from Listening to Each Other, First Committee Told<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>16 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3504.doc.htm" target="_blank">‘Choose Wisely’ between Static or Dynamic Future, High Representative Warns First Committee as It Considers Deadlock in Disarmament Machinery<br></a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>15 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3503.doc.htm" target="_blank">Strategies Contemplating Nuclear Weapons Use, Acquisition by Terrorists Fortify Case for Their Elimination, Say First Committee Speakers</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>14 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3502.doc.htm" target="_blank">Development of New Warfare Technologies Like ‘Killer Robots’ Raises Concerns in First Committee about Machines Taking ‘Life-and-Death’ Decisions</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>13 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3501.doc.htm" target="_blank">Speakers in First Committee Signal Appetite for Accelerating Disarmament, Spotlighting Cross-Border ‘Hotbeds of Tension and Conflict’</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>10 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3500.doc.htm" target="_blank">Speakers in First Committee Question Rationale for Nuclear Weapons Retention, Say Thwarting Conventional Arms Flows ‘Weakest Link’ in Control Efforts</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>9 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3499.doc.htm" target="_blank">Winning ‘Battle of Ideas’ First Step in Long, Hard Fight to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told during Wide-Ranging Debate</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>8 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/gadis3498.doc.htm" target="_blank">Nuclear Weapons Not Used Since 1945, But World ‘Cannot Rely on Luck Indefinitely’, First Committee Hears, as Speakers Grapple with Profound Implications</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>7 October 2014<br><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2014/gadis3497.doc.htm" target="_blank">Collective Security Can Be Assured by Finding Common Ground amid Primacy<br>Of National Positions, Members Told at Start of Session</a></li></ul>
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