Peacekeeping and Security
Biological and chemical weapons
Izumi Nakamitsu High Representative for Disarmament Affairs briefs Security Council members on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2118 (2013) on the Syrian Arab Republic during an open videoconference on 10 September 2020.
Conventional weapons
Youth leaders displaying their Africa Amnesty Month shirts at a local sensitization workshop held in Hola Tana River County Kenya in September 2020.
Acknowledgements
Volume 45 (Part II) of the United Nations Disarmament Yearbook like each earlier edition was a collaborative effort to which the staff of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs devoted considerable time and effort. It was prepared under the overall direction of the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and the Director of the Office Thomas Markram.
Emerging, cross-cutting and other issues
Participants at the event “Investment in Equality in Science Technology and Innovation in the Era of Digitalization for Sustainable Development” convened in New York on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February 2020.
Information and outreach
Youth and experts discuss “74 Years of Nuclear Disarmament and the Contribution of Youth Beyond 2020” at an event held in New York on 24 January 2020.
United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 2020: Part II
This publication summarizes developments and trends in 2020 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels. The yearbook reviews the activity of the General Assembly and the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission. Additionally it contains a timeline that highlights events in multilateral disarmament in 2020 and comprises a foreword written by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.
Foreword
It is my pleasure to introduce Part II of the 2020 United Nations Disarmament Yearbook. Now in its forty-fifth consecutive year of publication the Yearbook continues to be the pre-eminent source of objective information for diplomats civil society advocates and members of the public on each year’s developments in the field of multilateral disarmament non-proliferation and arms control.
Regional disarmament
At a regional seminar held in Kathmandu in March 2020 on gun violence and illicit small arms trafficking from a gender perspective.
Status of multilateral arms regulation and disarmament agreements
The Security Council meets on 26 February 2020 about non-proliferation and support for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ahead of the 2020 Review Conference.
Gender and disarmament
Office for Disarmament Affairs staff complete in April 2020 the coaching programme on gender and small arms and light weapons run by the Office’s Conventional Arms Branch and the United Nations Development Programme’s South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons.
Disarmament machinery
The General Assembly hears reports of the First Committee and adopts resolutions and decisions on disarmament non-proliferation and arms control on 7 December 2020.
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
Izumi Nakamitsu High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (second from right front row) meets young people in Japan on 10 August 2020 at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and the establishment of the United Nations.
Introduction
The Security Council is the organ of the United Nations which has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security under the Charter of the United Nations. The Council which is composed of 15 members is organized so as to be able to function continuously.
Index to Proceedings of the Security Council: Seventy-fifth Year, 2020
The Index to Proceedings of the Security Council is a bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the Security Council. This issue covers the seventy-fifth year of the Council including its commissions committees and ad hoc committees. The Index is divided in two parts comprising the Subject Index and Index to Speeches. The Index is prepared by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Department of Global Communications as one of the products of the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS).