The post-event story for the Informal Regional Meeting is out now!📣📝 On 2–3 April 2025, UNRCPD successfully hosted the meeting in Kathmandu, with support from 🇪🇺EU at UN-NY and in collaboration with MOFA of Nepal 🇳🇵. 👉 Read the full story: bit.ly/42He08E

Big congratulations to #Kuwait 🇰🇼 for submitting updated information to the UN Register of Conventional Arms #UNROCA!! Transparency and Confidence Building is key to sustainable peace in Asia and the Pacific! #TCBM #AsiaPacific

#HappeningNow UNRCPD and MAG (Mines Advisory Group) are in #Suva 🇫🇯 in partnership with Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs, Fiji and supported by European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺, to raise awareness on the importance of strengthening arms control and to build capacity of officials to promote sustainable peace in #Fiji and the #Pacific.

Congratulations #Kiribati and welcome to the #1972BWC family!! We are delighted to deepen our cooperation towards a world free from biological weapons 🎊🥳

Welcome Kiribati🇰🇮 to the Biological Weapons Convention! Another step toward universal membership. The EU is proud to partner with Pacific Island States in advancing the BWC and its universalisation. Let’s keep the momentum!

🎉We are delighted to welcome #Kiribati as the 189th State Party to the #1972BWC! As we mark the 50th anniversary of the BWC this year, Kiribati’s accession represents a meaningful step toward a world free of biological weapons. Welcome again to the #BWC family!👏✨

It was a great pleasure for the UNRCPD team to meet Dirk Wagener 🇺🇳 and the RCO team in #Suva to discuss the United Nations’s efforts to support 🇫🇯 and Member States in the #Pacific to advance sustainable peace through #disarmament, #nonproliferation and #armscontrol. #OneUN #AsiaPacific

Advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda remains an essential effort to ensure inclusive and sustainable peace in the region.

Big congratulations to #Lebanon for submitting information to the UN Register of Conventional Arms #UNROCA!!! #Transparency and #ConfidenceBuilding is key to sustainable peace in #AsiaPacific!

📷 Our video is now out! In April, UNRCPD convened an Informal Regional Meeting in Kathmandu. This video captures key moments from the meeting, which explored how small arms control and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda can be harmonized. 👉Check out the video!

Now launched: a new platform for National Contact Points (NCP) of the #1972BWC! With support from EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters/European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺, the platform enables users to directly search & update information, as well as view real-time statistics. Registered NCP can login➡️bwc-ncp.un.org.

Applications are open for our 2025 #NextGeneration #KoreanPeninsula Specialists Program! 📝Apply by June 23. More information and application here: ncafp.org/resources/appl…

UNODA High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu shared a message for the 80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings. "Education, remembrance, and diplomacy must go hand in hand if we are to arrive at the goal of a world without nuclear weapons," said Ms. Nakamitsu. ▶️rb.gy/j8byb9

Next week, the ASEAN-IPR Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Training Programme returns to Bangkok, Thailand!

UNODA High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu delivered a video message on the 100th anniversary of the Geneva Protocol. “It is important to recall that the Geneva Protocol also came into a world of confusion and uncertainty in the year 1925.” Watch here:👉 tinyurl.com/bddtcs2p

I am grateful for High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu's wise counsel and leadership during these challenging times. A valuable opportunity to discuss global developments and to look ahead to the Article XIV #AFC conference in September. Our partnership with ODA remains as

I am very concerned by announcements by several United Nations member countries to withdraw from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. We must uphold humanitarian norms & accelerate mine action. The protection of innocent lives depends on our collective action & commitment.

📌 New Publication Alert! Our latest briefing paper, Supporting the Implementation of the Global Framework for Through-life Conventional Ammunition Management (GFA) in the Asia-Pacific, is out now! 🌏 🔍 Read more: bit.ly/43QvIXO