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Disarmament Calendar 2009: Main Conferences & Events

January 1 January EU Presidency passes to the Czech Republic
19 January-27 March Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
21 January Inauguration of President Obama
28 January - 1 February World Economic Forum annual meeting, Davos
February 4 February U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Lifting the Nuclear Shadow: Creating the Conditions for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, speech, London
6 - 8 February Munich Security Conference, Germany
13 - 14 February International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, second meeting, Washington
19 - 20 February NATO Informal Defence Ministers' meeting, Krakow, Poland
24 or 25 February President Obama State of the Union Address, Washington
March 2 - 6 March IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
5 March NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting, Brussels
April 3 - 4 April NATO Summit, Strasbourg, France / Kehl, Germany
13 April - 1 May UN Disarmament Commission, New York

May

4 - 15 May Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty preparatory committee meeting, held at the UN, New York
18 May - 3 July Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
June
2 June Presidential Election, Iran
2 - 6 June IAEA Board of Governors, Vienna
July
7 - 9 July G8 Summit, Sardinia, Italy
16 July Anniversary of Trinity, the first nuclear weapon test
August 3 August-18 September Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
6 August Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
9 August Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki
24 - 28 August Biological Weapons Convention, meeting of experts, Geneva
September September - December UN General Assembly, New York
7 - 11 September IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
14 - 18 September IAEA General Conference, Vienna
22 September IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
23 - 25 September Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, at the UN, New York

October

1 October - 3 November UN First Committee, New York

November

26 - 27 November IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
27 - 28 November IAEA Board of Governors opens, Vienna
30 November - 4 December Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting, The Hague, Netherlands
December 1 December New IAEA Director-General takes office, Vienna
5 December START nuclear arms reduction treaty expires
7 December Biological Weapons Convention annual meeting, Geneva

For further information see:

http://disarmament.un.org
http://www.iaea.org
http://europa.eu.int
http://www.fcnl.org/NuclearCalendar/index.php

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