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UN Disarmament Commission (UNDC)

Summary:

The UN Disarmament Commission (UNDC) - originally established in 1952, and later re-established and strengthened in 1978 - is a specialized deliberative body of universal membership mandated to submit concrete recommendations on specific disarmament issues.

For more in-depth information, please consult the Inventory of Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes, which can be found on the CNS website at: http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/.

China and the UNDC:

China is a participant in the UNDC. China's Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs is Hu Xiaodi (also Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament).

[LINK TO UNDC WEBSITE]

Key statements related to China and the UNDC:

Other UN arms control and nonproliferation-related committees in which China has participated include:

[CHINA AND THE UN FIRST COMMITTEE (UNFC)]

[CHINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA)]

[CHINA AND THE UN SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQ (UNSCOM)]

[CHINA AND THE UN REGISTER OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS (UNROCA)]

[CHINA AND THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD)]


Last Updated September 2003

CNSThis material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2007 by MIIS.

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