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9-687: The First Committee meets every year in October for a 4–5-week session, after the General Assembly General Debate. All 193 member states of the UN can attend. It is the only main committee of the General Assembly entitled to verbatim records. The work of the committee falls under seven thematic clusters: The work of the committee usually begins in late September and ends by the end of October or early November. The work of

18-588: A United Nations commission under the United Nations General Assembly which primarily deals with issues relating to Disarmament . The United Nations Disarmament Commission was first established on 11 January 1952 by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 502 (VI). This commission was put under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Security Council and its mandate included: preparing proposals for

27-629: A treaty for the regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments, including the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . However, this commission only met a few times, and was followed by a succession of other disarmament-focused bodies: the Ten-Nation Disarmament Committee (1960), the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament (1962), the Conference of

36-524: Is considering and making recommendations on various issues in the field of disarmament. Due to the fact that disarmament is a substantial topic, the UNDC has traditionally focused on a limited number of agenda items at each session, typically three or four. In 1998, this tendency was made official by the General assembly, who through decision 52/492, limited the work of the UNDC to "two agenda items per year from

45-656: The Committee on Disarmament (1969) and, finally, the Conference on Disarmament (1979), which still meets to this day. The second iteration of the commission was formed on 30 June 1978 by the General Assembly as a subsidiary organ of the Assembly. This commissions includes all members states of the United Nations and meets yearly in New York for approximately three weeks. It is a deliberative body, whose mandate

54-518: The General Assembly annually, or more frequently, as appropriate. Its budget is also included in that of the United Nations. The conference meets in Geneva triannually and focuses on the following issues: The following make up the bureau of the First Committee for the 77th Session of the General Assembly : Disarmament Commission The United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC) is

63-466: The body is split into three stages: (1) general debate, (2) thematic discussions and (3) action on drafts. During the first stage, the general debate, the committee discusses its agenda items for around eight days. This period of debate is then followed by two weeks of thematic discussions on each of the seven clusters. During this stage, the body hears testimony from high-level officials in the field of arms control and disarmament. It also holds hearings in

72-468: The commission is usually divided between two working groups, with each group tackling one topic from the whole range of disarmament issues for that session, one of which must include nuclear disarmament. The commission reports to the General Assembly via the First Committee at least once a year. While the Conference on Disarmament is not formally part of the United Nations machinery, it still reports to

81-668: The form of interactive panel discussions with various representatives from disarmament entities. In the final stage, the body votes on any resolutions or decisions that it has drawn up during its session. The First Committee has two main bodies that report to it: the Disarmament Commission (UNDC) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) . It also hears reports from any expert groups it establishes. The Disarmament Commission meets yearly in New York for three weeks hosting both plenary meetings and working groups. The work of

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