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Adopting 10 resolutions on cooperation with regional groups, General Assembly fills subsidiary body vacancies, re-elects High Commissioner for Refugees.

Adopting 10 resolutions on cooperation with regional groups, General Assembly fills subsidiary body vacancies, re-elects High Commissioner for Refugees.

The General Assembly holds a high-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests.

Seventy-five years ago this week, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by atomic blasts. Both cities were levelled, causing untold death and destruction. Yet, long-standing international norms to stop a nuclear disaster are under threat. CTBTO

The United Nations family in Vienna marked United Nations Charter Day on Friday with a virtual and actual gathering at the UN headquarters in the Austrian capital, and a commitment to work to fix the failings COVID-19 has exposed in our systems and social safety nets. UNIS VIENNA / FILE

On Wednesday (25 Sep) foreign ministers and representatives of over 50 countries met at the United Nations to discuss one of the most universally signed nuclear disarmament agreements, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty or CTBT. CTBTO

While world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations 74th General Assembly, on Monday (23 Sep) a group of officials and dignitaries met at a side event to discuss the erosion of trust in multilateral diplomacy. CTBTO

Delegates deplore tensions among powerful states over reducing arsenals as General Assembly marks International Day against Nuclear Testing at 104th plenary meeting.

In an event to mark the International day against Nuclear Tests, UN chief António Guterres once again called upon all States to “sign and ratify the CTBT without further delay, and for those remaining eight States to do so with a sense of urgency,” adding "in the 21st century, nuclear testing is simply not acceptable.” UNIFEED

With international tensions high over nuclear non-proliferation, a large gathering of diplomats, scientists and academics met in Vienna to discuss advancements related to one of the pillars of nuclear non-proliferation: the 1996 U.N.-brokered Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. CTBTO