"DISARMAMENT"

General Assembly adopts work programme, agenda for Seventy-Fourth session, retaining items on responsibility to protect, situation in Ukraine at 2nd plenary meeting.

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

Briefing by Monica Grayley, Spokesperson for the President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly.

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

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited the Munigi transit centre for ex-combatants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). MONUSCO

A cargo plane carrying 35 tons of supplies, mainly tents, landed at Juba International Airport on Wednesday. The cargo is a part of a support package for South Sudan’s peace process and a donation from the Africa Union Peace and Security Council for use in 35 cantonment sites. UNMISS

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The multilateralism “is more important than ever, and here in Geneva we have a real platform of multilateralism which we can really use,” said Tatiana Valovaya, a newly appointed Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva and the first woman to occupy that position. UNTV CH

In a joint statement, the United Kingdom, France and Germany condemned a series of ballistic missiles launched by North Korea in the past weeks and called on the country to take “concrete steps towards its complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.