U. N. Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

A member since 2003, I attended the 43^rd session of the U. N. Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in Geneva from 30 June to 2 July, 2004. Other members include Mr. Rademaker, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Mr. Liu, Director-General of the Chinese Department of Arms Control and Disarmament, and Ambassador Tóth of Hungary. Our main task is to advise U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on disarmament matters. At this session, export controls were discussed, and we concluded our input paper concerning disarmament and UN reform to the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

During my stay, I also attended the Geneva Forum Meeting, hosted by Ambassador Rivasseau at the French Mission, and gave a talk in my capacity as Chair of the UN First Biennial Meeting of States on updates on small arms disarmament implementation in different regions.

Please click the Nairobi Ministerial Conference on Small Arms page for relevant materials. For my views on the issue of small arms and the UN High-Level Panel, please see the following statement:

Small arms and the UN High-Level Panel