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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12 December 2011

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The Future of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in the Perspective of the New NPT Review Cycle

Seminar of the 62nd Session of the Institute for High Defense Studies

Rome, Italy

14 November 2011

Looking Forward on the Establishment of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East: Towards Track I

Task Force on the Technical Dimensions of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (WMDFZ) in the Middle East

Landau Network-Centro Volta

Grand Hotel di Como, Como, Italy

12 November 2011

Global and Regional Strategic Developments: Implications for Disarmament in the Middle East

Task Force on the Technical Dimensions of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (WMDFZ) in the Middle East

Landau Network-Centro Volta

Grand Hotel di Como, Como, Italy

11 November 2011

Opening remarks for the Panel on “Towards Accountability of States for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons”

Conference on Nuclear Disarmament: A Compass Point for Progress and Accountability, United Nations

New York 24 October 2011

Statement at the Launching of the Nuclear Abolition Forum

New York 21 October 2011

Statement on the occasion of the Certificate Award ceremony
for the 2011 Fellows on Disarmament

New York 20 October 2011

Topic: Parliamentarians and the UN Secretary-General’s five-point proposal

Kursaal Convention Centre,
Bern, Switzerland, 15 October 2011

Panel of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly

“Current state of affairs in the field of arms control and disarmament and the role of the respective organizations”

First Committee General Assembly

New York, 12 October 2011

United Nations, New York, 11 October 2011

Follow-up of resolutions and decisions

adopted by the First Committee
at its past session / Presentation of reports

General Assembly, First Committee

New York, 11 October 2011

High Representative’s Opening Statement

General Assembly, First Committee

New York, 3 October 2011

2011 United Nations Disarmament Fellows Welcome

New York, 3 October 2011

Toward a World Free of Nuclear Tests and Nuclear Weapons

High Level Workshop, From Here to 2015: 

Meeting the Targets of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Action Plan

Hosted by Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the EastWest Institute

New York, 1 September 2011

The Challenge of Sustaining Progress on Global Nuclear Disarmament

2011 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
A Nuclear-Weapon-Free, Peaceful, and Just World

Nagasaki, Japan
7 August 2011

“Urgent and United Action Toward a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World”

by Hannelore Hoppe

Director and Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

23rd United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues

Matsumoto, Japan, 27 July 2011

Meeting of Parliamentarians for Global Action at the Permanent Mission of Finland

12 July 2011

Closing remarks: Toward a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction

EU Seminar to Promote Confidence Building and in Support of a Process Aimed at
Establishing a Zone Free of WMD and Means of Delivery in the Middle East

European External Action Service and EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Brussels, Belgium
7 July 2011

How the NPT Stands
in View of the Next Review Round

59th Pugwash Conference on Science & World Affairs:
European Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament & Conflict Resolution
Workshop on Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation

(after the 2010 NPT Review Conference)
Berlin, Germany
4 July 2011

Eliminating WMD in the Middle East

59th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs

Berlin, Germany, 2 July 2011

The Conference on Disarmament:
The Ghost in the Machine

Breaking the Ice
Ways Ahead: Double or Quits

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and Geneva Forum
Palais des Nations

Geneva, Switzerland
1 July 2011

Achievements and Challenges of the UN Disarmament Machinery

by Hannelore Hoppe, Director and Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

Annual NATO Conference on WMD Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Bergen, Norway

16 June 2011

Statement by Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence, 13-19 June 2011

A Global View of the WMD Environment  Hannelore Hoppe, Director and Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Promoting the Global Instruments of Nonproliferation and Disarmament: The United Nations and the Nuclear Challenge

Stimson Center, Washington D.C.

31 May 2011

Statement on the Global Day of Action on Military Spending

12 April 2011.

Keynote Address: “The Secretary-General’s Five-Point Nuclear Disarmament Proposal: Current Status and Future Prospects”

Seminar on Canada and a Nuclear Weapons Convention

Ottawa, Canada

11 April 2011.

Statement before the Disarmament Commission

New York, USA

4 April 2011.

Keynote Address, “Disarmament, Arms Control, and Non-Proliferation: A Look Ahead”

Partnership for Peace Workshop on the Role of Parliaments in Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Geneva, Switzerland

31 March 2011.

“Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: A Historical Review”

Seminar on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security

OAS Headquarters, Washington DC

28 March 2011.

Opening statement to the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

New York

23 February 2011

The Latin American and the Caribbean Experience in the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Limitation of Expenditures on Nuclear Armament, and Confidence-Building Measures

28 February 2011

En español

Message to the meeting organized by the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs for the launch of a new signature campaign calling the start of negociations for a convention banning nuclear weapons,

15 February 2011

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:
Where Do We Stand?  What’s Next?
Midday Forum Programme

United Nations University Office

United Nations
Headquarters

New York, 1 February 2011

United Nations Regional Workshop for East and Southeast Asia
on Strengthening the Capacity of the Media in Advocating
And Promoting Peace and Disarmament

Beijing, China, 20 January 2011

Global Nuclear Disarmament after 2010:

Expressway or Cul-de-Sac?

Worldview Institute Seminar

Hosted by United Nations Association

of New York, 8 December 2010

Opening statement at the The 9th UN/ROK Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues

Jeju, Republic of Korea

2 December 2010

Message to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of Soka Gakki

Published in Seikyo Shimbun,

16 November 2010, p. 3.

Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Seminar on Latin America and the Caribbean Facing Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Opportunities and Challenges

Montevideo, Uruguay

9 November 2010

The Secretary-General’s Five-Point Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament

Seminar on Latin America and the Caribbean: Facing Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Opportunities and Challenges

Montevideo, Uruguay

8 November 2010

Keynote Address

Quo Vadis Nuclear Disarmament: Where Are We Heading? International Seminar on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Toward the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Hosted by

Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation

Buenos Aires, Argentina

4 November 2010

The Ultimate Nuclear Test – An editorial for Project Syndicate by Sergio Duarte and Tibor Toth

29 October 2010

Certificate Award ceremony
for the 2010 Fellows on Disarmament

21 October 2010

Achieving Global Nuclear Disarmament – Lecture sponsored by
The Student Political Science Association of Hunter College

New York, USA

07 October 2010

Message to the Religions for Peace Meeting on Arms Down! Global Youth Campaign for Shared Security,
delivered on behalf of the Secretary General

New York, USA

04 October 2010

Statement to the First Committee of the General Assembly

New York, USA

04 October 2010

Keynote Address to the conference From Aspiration to Reality:
Nuclear Disarmament after the NPT Review

Sponsored by
the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
and the Middle Powers Initiative

Geneva, Switzerland

14 September 2010

A Consultation on Prioritizing the NPT
Action Plan Sponsored by the EastWest
Institute

United Nations, New York

9 September 2010

The Aftermath of the NPT Review Conference:
The United Nations and Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament

19th World Congress on Nuclear Abolition

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear Wear (IPPNW)

Basel, Switzerland

27 August 2010

The 22nd United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues
“A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Making Steady Progress from Vision to Action”

Saitama, Japan

25 August 2010

“Democracy, Disarmament, and the Rule of Law”

Speech at the 2010 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, 6 August 2010, Hiroshima, Japan

“Planting the Seeds of Disarmament”

Disarmament Times Article

Summer Issue, Volume 33 #2

July 2010

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Global Nuclear Disarmament:
A Practical Necessity, a Moral Imperative

2010 Chautauqua Lectures,
Week Four: Nuclear Disarmament,
Hall of Philosophy

Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY

19 July 2010

Statement of the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs to the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty

New York, 12 July 2010

Message to the UNIDIR Commemoration

Geneva

08 July 2010

07 July 2010

United Nations, New York,
05 May 2010

17–18 April 2010

Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University,
Washington, D.C.

24 March 2010

Fordham University

New York, 25 February2010

Nuclear Security and
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Conference:
Building Up or Breaking Down:
The Direction of Nuclear Non-Proliferation,
Albert Schweitzer Institute,
Quinnipiac University School of Law,

Hamden, Connecticut

19 February 2010

Makati, Philippines,
02 February 2010

The 2010 NPT Review Conference: Forecasting the Outcome

Atlanta, Georgia, 12 January 2010

- En español

Niigata City, Japan,
26-28 August 2009

10 August 2009

An Update on the Disarmament Cascade,
Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission,
Final Meeting,
Brookings Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1 May 2009

Opening Remarks at the Special Briefing and Strategy Session:
Contributions of the United Nations System in Advancing the Entry Into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty,

Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations,
New York, NY,
3 April 2009

Recovering from the disarmament recession,
“Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Can the UN Build Momentum for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation?”, International Peace Institute, New York seminar, Rye Brook, 1 April 2009

Achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world: How parliaments can help, April 2009

- Published article

Opening remarks at the International Symposium on Nuclear Security,
International Atomic Energy Agency,Vienna,30 March 2009

Remarks to the Group of Francophone Ambassadors, New York, 17 March 2009

Response to Remarks by Chairman Boniface G. Chidyausiku, Meeting on Prospects for 2009 NPT PrepCom,
Annecy,
14 March 2009

First substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group towards an Arms Trade Treaty, New York, US, 02 March 2009

Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York, US, 18 February 2009

“New Imperatives and Openings for
a Nuclear Weapons-Free World”, Rathaus Schönberg

Berlin, Germany,
29 January 2009

Conference on
Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Crossroads?

Wilton Park, West Sussex, 19 December 2008

Setting the Agenda for Nuclear Disarmament, Conference on Peace and Disarmament:  A World without Nuclear Weapons?

Brussels,
9 December 2008

Toward the Control of International Arms Transfers, Conference on the Control of International Arms Transfers

Buenos Aires, 1 December 2008

“Earth Dialogues on the Water Planet”

Organized by:
Green Cross International

Government of the State of Minas Gerais

Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 27 November 2008

Opening remarks by Hannelore Hoppe: Nuclear Renaissance and the NPT: Reinforcing the Three Pillars of the NPT

The Seventh United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference

on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues, 24 November 2008

International Conference on Arms Control Revisited:
Non-Proliferation and Denuclearization

Warsaw, 20 November 2008

Moral Leadership and Nuclear Weapons
2008

Sarah Smith Memorial Conference on Moral Leadership: Are We Safe Yet? Vulnerability and Security in an Anxious Age
Center for Faith and Culture

Yale Divinity School
New Haven, CT
19 September 2008

Reversing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons:

The Future of the Non-Proliferation Regime

The Council on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament,
Washington, D.C., 19 September 2008

The Art of Peace Charitable Trust Inaugural Reception and Dinner Honoring
Lin Evola-Smidt

United Nations, New York
11 September 2008

Promoting Non-Proliferation: The Role of International Organizations, INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE NUCLEAR CHALLENGE, Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO-Chile),

Santiago, Chile, 5 September 2008

Nuclear Energy and Disarmament: The Challenges of Regulation, Development, and Prohibition

73rd International Law Association Biennial Conference
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
18 August 2008

The World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

Hiroshima, Japan
4 August 2008

Geneva Forum event at Glen Cove

delivered by Ms. Pamela Maponga

Harrison Conference Centre, New York
25 July 2008

Improving Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention: The 2007-2010 Intersessional Process

Foreword, page XI, UNIDIR 20 July 2008

UNLiREC- Grulac consultation

New York,
18 July 2008

BMS side event on children & armed conflict

New York,
15 July 2008

Third Biennial Meeting of States

New York
14 July 2008

Launch of the 2008 Small Arms Survey

New York,
14 July 2008

Disarmament & Political Will Thinkers Lodge

Pugwash Nova Scotia, Canada

12 July 2008

Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 9 July 2008

50th Session,

9-11 July 2008

Luncheon Address by Sergio Duarte, “Making the 2010 NPT Review Conference a Success,” Annual Meeting and Luncheon, Arms Control Association

Washington, D.C., 16 June 2008

Keynote address by Sergio Duarte, “Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” Conference Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan, Hosted by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and The Indian Council for World Affairs.

Delhi, India, 9 June 2008

Remarks by Sergio Duarte to the Panel of Governmental Experts on the Issue of Missiles in All its Aspects

United Nations, 2 June 2008

Statement by Sergio Duarte, High Representative on Disarmament Affairs, on the occasion of the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence

(2-8 June 2008)

Opening Remarks by Sergio Duarte, Peace and Disarmament: An Evening of Dialogue on the United Nations and Its Common Purposes, sponsored by the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and the Global Security Institute,

New York, 21 May 2008.

Opening remarks by Sergio Duarte for an Exhibition, “From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit,” hosted by Soka Gakkai International

Geneva, 30 April 2008

Statement by Sergio Duarte on “40 Years of NPT Implementation: A UN Point of View,” Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Geneva, 28 April 2008

Opening remarks by Sergio Duarte at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference

Geneva, 28 April 2008

Keynote Address by Sergio Duarte on “Conference on Problems of Arctic Security in the 21st Century” at Morris J. Wosc Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University

Vancouver, Canada, 11 April 2008

Informal Remarks on Behalf of Jayantha Dhanapala

upon his Receipt of the Simons Foundation Award

Vancouver 11 April 2008

Introductory remarks by Sergio Duarte, for lecture by Hans Blix on “Time for a Revival of Disarmament?”, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation

9 April 2008

“Disarmament and the Rule of Law,” address by Mr. Sergio Duarte at the Spring Meeting of the 2008 American Bar Association Section on International Law, United Nations,

New York, 31 March 2008.

Sergio Duarte’s Keynote Address, NPT: Pathfinder to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World,Fifth Meeting of the Article VI Forum, Middle Powers Initiative, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, 27 March 2008

Speech by Sergio Duarte, “The Future of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones: Maintaining their Relevance and Expanding their Scope”

Annecy, France, 7 March 2008

Speech by Sergio Duarte, “New Perspectives in the United Nations for Disarmament”, Seminar,Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael)

The Hague, Netherlands, 4 March 2008.

Public lecture by Sergio Duarte on “The United Nations and Disarmament: Challenges and Opportunities”, Series of Changing Institutions, hosted by SIPRI/SITE

Stockholm, Sweden, 28 February 2008

Remarks of Sergio Duarte, “What does it mean to advance the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons?”, Seminar on Nuclear Disarmament, Oslo, Norway, 26 February 2008

Sérgio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:

“The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Debilitation and Risk of Collapse”, Conference on Nuclear Weapons – The Greatest Peril to Civilization,

The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization,

New Haven, Connecticut, 21 February 2008.

Speech by Sergio Duarte on “NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND THE NPT: The Responsibility of the Nuclear-Weapon States”, at Global Summit for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World,

London, England, 16 February 2008.

Statement of Mr. Duarte to the
Permanent Council of the Organization of American States,
Committee on Hemispheric Security,
Washington, D.C., USA

7 February 2008

Keynote address by Mr. Duarte at a Symposium on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, hosted by the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6 December 2007

Opening Statement by Mr. Duarte to the Sixth ROK-UN Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 3 December 2007

Statement delivered by Sergio Duarte in Rome at the CTBT seminar organized by the Landau Network-Centro Volta and the Italian MFA on 5 November 2007

Opening remarks of Sergio Duarte, conference on “Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons”, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 24 October 2007

Statement of Sergio Duarte to a Panel of the First Committee on “Current state of affairs in the field of arms control and disarmament and the role of the respective organizations”, 17 October 2007.

Mr. Sergio Duarte’s
Statement before the First Committee on the follow-up of resolutions and decisions adopted by the First Committee, 15 October 2007

Remarks by Sergio Duarte at a reception hosted by the Middle Powers Initiative and Global Security Institute, New York, 11 October 2007

Mr. Sergio Duarte’s opening statement at the First Committee, 2007

Remarks by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Sergio Duarte, at
The 19th United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues in Sapporo;
New vision and required leadership towards a world free from nuclear weapons
and other weapons of mass destruction,

Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan,
27-29 August 2007 [Presented 27 August]

Remarks by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Sergio Duarte, at the launch of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit on 21 August 2007

Opening Remarks by Sérgio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs at Secretary-General’s Advisory Board for Disarmament Matters 48th Session, which was held in New York from 16-18 July 2007

16 July 2007

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka before the Security Council
cooperation between the security council and international organizations in the implementation of resolutions 1540 (2004) and 1673 (2006)

Message from
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka “advancing Cooperative Security in Space” to the meeting hosted by the Global Security Institute, New York, 9 February 2007

Message from
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka to to 7th World Summit of the Nobel Peace Laureates, Rome, 18 November 2006

Message from
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka to Seminar On Strengthening Global Disarmament And Non-Proliferation Bali, 2 November 2006

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka before the First
Committee of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 17 October
2006

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka before the Panel of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, 9 October 2006

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka before the First
Committee of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 2 October
2006

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka at the Middle Powers Initiative Forum, Ottawa, Canada

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka to the 18th UN Conference on Disarmament Issues in Yokohama, 21 August 2006

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka to the Berlin Seminar on Peace and Security in the 21st Century organized by Center for Strategic Decision Research, 20 May 2006

Statement by
Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka to the United Nations
Disarmament Commission (UNDC), 10 April 2006

Statement by the Officer in charge of DDA to the Open Debate of the Security Council on the Question of Small Arms, 17 March 2006

Statement by Under-Secretary-General
Nobuyasu Abe to the Unite Nations Preparatory Committee, 9 January 2006

Statement by Under-Secretary-General
Nobuyasu Abebefore the First
Committee of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 3 October
2005

Statement by Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu Abe on Multilateralism Versus Unilateralism: Overcoming the Dichotomy in Disarmament, 17 August 2005

Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu
Abe’s Talk at the Plenary Session: The Future of Disarmament and
Non-Proliferation, 24 July 2005

Statement by Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu Abe on Challenges and Legal Issues for the 2005 Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference: a Transatlantic Dialogue, Part I. Challenges and Opportunities for the 2005 NPT Review Conference: Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime,

17 March 2005

Opening
Address, How to Address Challenges in the Field of
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation TDDAy, Jeju Island, Republic of
Korea, 6 December 2004

Closing WMD Proliferation Gaps: The United Nations Challenge

and the Asian Perspective, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 9 November 2004

2004 United Nations Programme of
Fellowships on Disarmament, Statement by Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu Abe, United Nations, New York, 28 October 2004

Statement by Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu
Abe on Regional Disarmament, United Nations, New York, 22 October
2004 

Strengthening International Regimes for
Arms Control and Disarmament, United Nations, New York, 19 October
2004 

Statement by Under-Secretary-General Nobuyasu Abe on The Implementation of Resolutions, United Nations, New York, 13 October
2004 

Statement before the First
Committee of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 4 October
2004 

The Future Role of the
United Nations in Asian Peace and Security, Sydney, Australia, 3
September 2004

Opening Remarks, United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues “Mounting challenges to
peace and security and disarmament tDDAy”, Sapporo, Japan, 26 July 2004

Open-ended Working Group
to negotiate an international instrument to enable States to identify
and trace, in a timely and reliable manner, illicit small arms and
light weapons,  United Nations,
New York, 14 June 2004

 Women, Weapons of
Mass Destruction, and Preventing War, Panel on Women, Weapons of Mass
Destruction, and Preventing War, Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom,  United Nations,
New York, 4 May 2004

Statement before the United
Nations Disarmament Commission, Opening Session, United Nations, New
York, 5 April 2004

Controlling the Spread of
Nuclear Weapons, Warnke Conference on the Past, Present, and Future of
Arms Control, Hosted by The Arms Control Association, Georgetown
University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and its Center
for Peace and Security Studies, Washington, D.C.,  28 January 2004

Opening Remarks, Conference
on the Implementation, by the Arab States, of the UN Programme of
Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, Cairo,
Egypt, 16 December 2003

Opening Remarks, Jeju
Process, Conference on Challenges to Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Norms in East Asia, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 3 December 2003

The United Nations and
Nuclear Disarmament, Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, Liu
Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 8 November 2003

The Future of Multilateral
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Treaties, Peace and Security Funders
Group, United Nations, New York, 29 October 2003

Keynote Address – The
Non-Proliferation Regime in the “Second Nuclear Age”, Forum of the
Middle Powers Initiative on Challenges of the Second Nuclear Age:
Preserving Multilateralism, Advancing Disarmament, United Nations, New
York, 6 October 2003 

Statement before the First
Committee of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 6 October
2003 

Non-Proliferation and the
Challenge of Compliance, Second Moscow International Non-Proliferation
Conference, Hosted by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and
Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center), Metropol Hotel, Moscow ,19
September 2003 

Opening Remarks,
“Arms Control, Disarmament and Their Future”, United Nations
Conference on Disarmament Issues, Osaka, Japan, 19 August 2003 

Opening Remarks,
“Multilateral Disarmament after the Iraq War”, Panel Discussion
sponsored by DDA on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of SSOD-I, UN
Headquarters, New York, 20 May 2003 

Remarks at
NGO Farewell Reception, Organized by the Hague Appeal for Peace,
Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy and NGO Committee on Disarmament,
Peace and Security, New York, 13 May 2003

The NPT — Yesterday,
Today, and Tomorrow: Keynote Address, Event hosted by Middle Powers
Initiative, A Programme of the Global Security Institute, Palais des
Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 29 April 2003 

Introduction of DDA’s
Gender Action Plan:  Keynote Address, Panel Discussion
“Making Disarmament More Effective: Men and Women Working
Together”, UN Headquarters, New York, 15 April
2003 

Special Remarks at the
Alan Cranston Peace Awards 2003 Ceremony, Organized by the Global
Security Institute, San Francisco California, 12 April
2003 

Statement before the UN
Disarmament Commission, UN Headquarters, New York, 31 March 2003 

Opening Remarks for the
“UN-OSCE Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light
Weapons in All Its Aspects in South Eastern Europe”, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 11 March 2003

”
Transparency in Armaments”, Subregional Workshop. Bali, Indonesia
14 February 2003

“Implementation of the Programme of Action adopted at the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects: The Asia-Pacific
Perspective”, Bali, Indonesia 10 February 2003

“A Realistic
View of Global Weapons Norms”, IPS UN Journal, 20 January 2003,
Vol. 11, No. 6, page 6

“Disarmament
Inches Forward in a Period of Setbacks”, Disarmament Times,
Volume XXV, Number 4, pages 1-3

Opening Statement for the
UN-ROK Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues:
Changing Security Dynamics and their Implications for Disarmament and
Non-Proliferation, Cheju Island, Republic of Korea 3 December 2002

The Relevance of Regimes,
Plenary Address at the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation
Conference – Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, Washington,
D.C., 15 November 2002

Opening Statement for the
BioWeapons Prevention Project Launch – Palais des Nations, Geneva, 11 November 2002

Gender and Disarmament, Key
Note Address at the Fourth Annual Women Waging Peace Policy Day – John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 8 November 2002

Global Security and Civil
Society, Statement before the Threshold Foundation – New York, 7 November 2002

Remarks at the Certificate
Awarding Ceremony, 2002 UN Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament – United Nations,
New York, 28 October  2002

Statement at the Symposium
marking the Tenth Anniversary of the UN Register of Conventional Arms – United Nations,
New York, 15 October  2002

Opening Remarks at
“The Outer Space Treaty at Thirty-Five” Panel Discussion – United Nations,
New York, 14 October  2002

Statement to the Open
Debate of the Security Council on the Question of Small Arms – United
Nations, New York, 11 October 2002

Remarks at the Launch of
the UN  Study on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education – United Nations,
New York, 9 October  2002

Message to the Survivors of
the Atomic Bombings – Hill of Grace, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Home for the
Elderly, 6 October  2002

Opening Remarks: Panel
Discussion on “The Impact of 11 September 2001 on the Disarmament
Agenda for the 21st Century” – United Nations,  3 October  2002

“Help schools to
promote a safer world”, by Jayantha Dhanapala and William C.
Potter, International Herald Tribune, 3 October  2002

Opening Remarks: Panel
Discussion on “Disarmament in Conflict Prevention”  – United Nations, New York,
1 October  2002

Statement before the First
Committee of the General Assembly  – United Nations, New York, 30
September 2002

Statement on the Occasion
of the Launching of the Joint Ministerial Statement on the CTBT  – United Nations, New York,
14 September 2002

Remarks to DPI/NGO
Conference, Session on “Demobilizing the War Machines: Making
Peace Last” – United Nations, New York, 11 September 2002

“Making Peace Last:
Disarmament as an Essential Element”, NGO Committee on
Disarmament, Peace and Security Workshop, DPI/NGO Conference – United
Nations, New York, 10 September 2002

On
eve of Johannesburg forum, UN official flags links between
disarmament, development, 25 August 2002

The NPT and the Future of
Nuclear Weapons –  Workshop on the Outcome and Implementation of
the 2002 NPT PrepCom – Monterey Institute of International Studies,
L’Imperial Palace, Annecy, France, 14 July 2002

Nuclear Disarmament:
Towards Securing a Global Future for Humanity – Seminar on Nuclear
Disarmament: Towards Securing a Global Future for Humanity, Hosted by
Pax Christi, Dublin, Ireland, 19 June 2002

“Preventing a new
dark age”, by Jayantha
Dhanapala and Ramesh Thakur, The Japan Times, 16 June 2002

“Let’s
get together against terrorism: A threatened world”, by Jayantha
Dhanapala and Ramesh Thakur, International Herald Tribune, 4 June 2002

Multilateralism and the U.S.
National Interest in Disarmament – Casper Committee on Foreign
Relations, Casper, Wyoming, 30 May 2002

The Canberra Commission:
Lessons Learned for a Future Commission – The Ideas-Institutional
Nexus, A Conference Co-Hosted by the University of Waterloo and United Nations University, Waterloo (Ontario), Canada, 18 May 2002

International Law, Security, and Weapons of
Mass Destruction – Showcase Program 2002 Spring Meeting of the Section
of International Law and Practice American Bar Association, New York,
New York, 9 May 2002

Remarks upon Accepting the Alan Cranston
Peace Award, Award Ceremony Hosted by the Global Security Institute – United Nations, New York,
16 April 2002

“The Challenge of
Results-Based Disarmament”, Synthesis, Spring/March 2002,
published by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
pages 5-7.

The NPT, Nuclear
Disarmament, and Terrorism, Conference on Nuclear Dangers and the
State of Security Treaties, Hosted by the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research – United Nations, New York, 9 April 2002

Opening Remarks:  A
Disarmament Agenda for the 21st Century, An International Conference
Sponsored by the United Nations and the People’s Republic of
China  – Beijing, China, 2 April 2002

“The
Impact of September 11 on Multilateral Arms Control”, Arms
Control TDDAy, March 2002, pages 9-14

The Role of Civil Society in
the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms,
African Conference on the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action
on Small Arms: Needs and Partnerships – Pretoria, South Africa, 20
March 2002

Coordinating Regional
Initiatives of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms, African
Conference on the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action on
Small Arms: Needs and Partnerships – Pretoria, South Africa, 18 March
2002

 Multilateral
Approaches to WMD Threats After September 11 – Annual Luncheon of the
Arms Control Association, Washington, DC, 22 January 2002

“Assembly Talk of
New Era Followed by ‘Business As Usual’,” Disarmament Times, Vol.
XXIV, No. 4, Winter 2001, pages 1, 3.

 “Multilateralism
and the Future of the Global Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,”
The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, MIIS, Fall 2001

Keynote Address – Regional
Seminar:  International Security Issues: A Call for Regional
Cooperation, Bangkok, Thailand, 14 December  2001

Disarmament,
Non-Proliferation, and the Rule of Law – 20th Anniversary of the
Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, New York, New York, 27 November 2001

Remarks at the Certificate
Awarding Ceremony – United Nations Programme of Fellowships on
Disarmament, UN New York, 31 October 2001

The Work of the Department of Disarmament Affairs in Implementing Security Council Resolution
1325 – UN Inter-agency Panel to Commemorate the First Anniversary of
Security Council resolution 1325, New York, 31 October 2001

The
NPT Regime: Progress and Promises – Symposium on International
Safeguards: Verification and Nuclear Material Security, IAEA, Vienna,
Austria, 29 October 2001

Opening Remarks – Symposium
on Terrorism and Disarmament, UN New York, 25 October 2001

Statement before the First
Committee of the General Assembly, UN New York, 8 October 2001

Communicating the
Disarmament Message – Centre for International Communication,
Macquarie University Sydney, Australia 30 August 2001

Opening Statement – United Nations
Conference on Disarmament Issues in Ishikawa-Kanazawa, Kanazawa,
Japan, 28 August 2001

“A Disarming
Proposition: Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Disarmament,”
Harvard International Review, Summer 2001, vol. XXIII, no. 2, p.
48-52.

The Agenda: Ecology, Poverty
Reduction, Disarming – International Herald Tribune 23 May 2001 P.8. (Note: based on the author’s Commencement Address at the
Monterey Institute for International Studies, 12 May 2001)

The State of the Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: 2001 – Monterey Institute of International Studies, Annecy, France, 21 May 2001 

Keynote Address: Towards NPT 2005:
An Action Plan for the 13 Steps – MPI  Strategy Consultation,
United Nations, 29 April 2001

Statement before the
Disarmament Commission, United Nations, New York, 09 April 2001

Globalization and the Nation
State, University of Colorado Law School at Boulder,  Boulder,
Colorado,  07 April 2001

Opening Address – Ka hao te
rangatahi: A Pacific Way to Disarmament, UN Regional Meeting in Asia
and the Pacific, Wellington,  New Zealand, 27 March, 2001

Prospects for Arms Control
and Disarmament, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 22 March, 2001

Launching of UN Publication: Gender
Perspectives on Disarmament, United Nations, New York, 14 March, 2001

Disarmament and Development, International Conference on Small Arms Proliferation and Trade in the Asia Pacific, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 19 February 2001

The
United Nations Millennium Declaration and South Asia – The
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 07 February 2001

Sustaining
People-Centred
Disarmament, UN Chronicle, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1,  2001, pages
16-17

Two
Cheers for First Committee – or One-Handed Applause?, DISARMAMENT
TIMES, vol. XXIII, no. 4, Winter 2000, page 1.

A Peace Dividend for
Developing Countries Would Pay Off, by Nitin Desai and Jayantha
Dhanapala, International Herald Tribune, 22 December 2000, page 8.

MESSAGE
TO GENSUIKYO, 12 December 2000

Keynote Address at the Final Expert Seminar on Smart Sanctions –The Next Step: Arms Embargoes and Travel Sanctions, Berlin, Germany, 3-5 December 2000

Opening
Statement, Ministerial Conference on the Illicit
Proliferation, Circulation, and Trafficking of Small Arms
and Light Weapons in Africa, Organization of African
Unity, Bamako, Mali, 30 November – 1 December 2000

Keynote Address  by Under-Secretary-General Dhanapala at the
Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2001 United Nations
Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light
Weapons in All Its Aspects,  22-24 November 2000

Remarks by Under-Secretary-General Dhanapala at the opening of the
disarmament exhibit, 23 October 2000

Remarks by
Under-Secretary-General Dhanapala before the First
Committee, 2 October 2000

Statement
on the occasion of the “Flamme de la Paix”
Ceremony, Agadez (Niger), 25 September 2000 (English), (French)

Nuclear-Weapon-Free
Zones – Challenges and Opportunities, International
Seminar “Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones: Crucial Steps
Towards a Nuclear-Free World”, Uppsala, Sweden, 1-4
September 2000

Statement
at the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and
Spiritual Leaders, New York, 31 August 2000

Disarmament
and the New Democratic Diplomacy, GLOBAL SOLIDARITY: The
Way to Peace and International Cooperation, Fifty-Third
Annual Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations
Associated with the United Nations Department of Public
Information, United Nations, New York, 29 August 2000

Eliminating
Nuclear Arsenals: The NPT Pledge and What It Means, All-Party
Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation House of
Commons, London, 3 July 2000

Statement before the Disarmament Commission, United Nations, New
York, 26 June 2000

Prospects
for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, 30 May
2000

Washington
Convocation of the Eminent Persons Group, Washington, 2-4
May 2000

The
Prospects for Disarmament in the 21st Century; Five
College Program in Peace and World Security Studies,
Hampshire College , Amherst, MA, 28 April 2000

Arms
Control and Multilateralism:The Problem of Political
Will, Tenth Annual International Arms Control Conference
– Conundrums in Arms Control:The New Millennium,
Panel II: Arms Control, Leadership, and Multilateralism,
Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico,14-16
April 2000

Strategic
Stability, Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and
the 2000 NPT Review Conference, Opening Address, The 12
Regional Disarmament Meeting in the Asia-Pacific Region,
Kathmandu, Nepal, 15-17 February 2000

The
United Nations and Civil Society, Rotary International,
Kandy, Sri Lanka, 22 January 2000

The
Prospects for Global Nuclear Disarmament, Center for
International Security and Cooperation, Stanford
University, 12 January 2000

The
Environmental Impacts of Manufacturing, Storing,
Deploying, and Retiring Weapons, 9 December 1999

The
Legacy of the Treaty of Tlatelolco on the Eve of a New
Millennium, 1 December 1999

Disarmament
and Security: A New Latin American and Caribbean Agenda
for the Next Millennium. The Role of the United Nations
in Disarmament and the Search for Peace, United Nations
Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in
Latin America and the Caribbean, Lima, Peru, 1 December
1999

Reinforcing
the NPT Regime, International Workshop on the 2000
Conference of the Strengthened NPT Review Process, Monterey
Institute of International Studies, Regal UN Plaza Hotel,
New York, NY, 1 November 1999

Remarks
by Under-Secretary-General Dhanapala before the First
Committee, New York, 11 October 1999.

1999
Olof Palme Memorial Lecture, A
Future Arms Control and Disarmament Agenda, Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm,
Sweden, 30 September 1999

Press briefing by Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament
Affairs, New York, 20 September 1999

Public
Ceremony in Gramsh, Albania, 17 September 1999

The UN’s Millennium
Assembly, Remarks before the United Nations Association
of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 August 1999

Illicit
Trafficking in Small Arms, African Regional Workshop, 2-4
August 1999, Lome – Togo

Symposium
on Disarmament and Development, Opening Remarks, UN
Headquarters, 20 July 1999

Globalization
of the Arms Industry, Statement before Friedrich Ebert
Foundation, New York, NY,8 July 1999

Forum
on Security and Development, World Bank, Washington, D.C.,
29 June 1999

Opening
statement on the occasion of the opening of the Workshop
on Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms: Latin America and
Caribbean Issues in Lima (Peru), 23-25 June 1999

Civil
Society and the Verification of Disarmament,Statement
before Workshop on “Societal Verification —
Whistleblowing — Citizens’s Reporting, The Hague
Appeal For Peace, 13 May 1999

Remarks
before Hague Appeal for Peace 1999, 13 May 1999

Opening
Statement at the Symposium on Missile Development and the
Impact on Global Security, United Nations, New York, 22
April 1999

Statement
before the Disarmament Commission, United Nations,
New York, 12 April 1999

Reinforcing
the NPT Regime: International Challenges and Opportunities, IAEA
Bulletin. Vol. 41, No. 4, April 1999, pages 5-8

Prospects
for Nuclear Disarmament, Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial
Lecture, Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1899 Hague
Peace Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia,
Faculty of Law, 19 February 1999

The
NPT Regime: External and Internal Challenges, Seventh
Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.,
11 January 1999

Peace through Sustainable
Disarmament, Article in IPS Terraviva, IPS Columnist Service, 7 January
1999 

Sustainable
Disarmament for Sustainable Development, Lalith Athulathmudali
Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27 November 1998

The Second United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues in
Nagasaki, Opening statement by Mr.
Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Disarmament Affairs, United Nations

Building Consensus on Disarmament: Key Role for the
United Nations, Disarmament Times, Vol. XXI, No. 4, November
1998, pages 1 and 4.

“The
Future of the Non-Proliferation Regime”: UNA-USA,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 6
November 1998

The Small Arms
Issue: Achieving Sustainable Disarmament, International
Conference on Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development,
Brussels, 12 October 1998

“Every
Second Counts: Gaining Time to Avert a Nuclear War
“: Seminar Cosponsored by Swedish Peace and
Arbitration Society, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 10
October 1998

Ministerial-level
Information Briefing on Small Arms, New York, 25 September 1998

Arms Flow to Africa, Subgroup V of the Security Council Ad Hoc Working Group on Africa, UN Headquarters, New York, 12 August 1998 

“The Phenomenon of Small Arms and Light Weapons
from an International Perspective”, Ad
Hoc Meeting on Small Arms organized by the Pontifical Council
for Justice and Peace (PCJP), Rome, 2 April 1998

“The Challenge of Controlling International Small Arms
Transfers”, International Conference on the Proposed Moratorium for
Small Arms Transfers in West Africa, Oslo, Norway, 1 April 1998

Meeting
of the Group of Interested States established pursuant to
GA Resolution 52/38G “Consolidation of Peace through
Practical Disarmament Measures”, 3 March 1998, UN Headquarters, New
York