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What is the committee?

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR DISARMAMENT AFFAIRS

What does it do?

-Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation

-Strengthening of the disarmament regimes in respect to other weapons odf mass destruction and chemical and biological weapons

-Disarmament efforts in the area of conventional weapons, especially landmines and small arms, which are the weapons of choices in contemporary conflicts.

Its purpose its to achieve nuclear disarmament & to stop the spreading of any weapons of destruction.

Help that the committee has:

-CD secretariat and conference support branch

- United nations regional centre for peace and disarmament in Africa

- United nations regional centre for peace, disarmament and development in Latin America and the Caribbean

-United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific

The committee headquarter building is located in:

(USA) New York

Where does it operate?

USA New York

Switzerland, Geneva

Lome, Togo

Lima, Peru

Kathmandu, Nepal

Indonesia

Leaders of the committee

Mr. Sergio de Queiroz of Brazil was appointed High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on 2 July 2001 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The appointment is at the Under-Secretary-General level.

12 October 1998: The Small Arms Issue: Achieving Sustainable Disarmaments Statement

June 1999: Forum on Security and Development

3-5 December 2000: Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs United Nations

24 July 2005: How to Rebuild the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

9 October 2006: Remarks by Nobuaki Tanaka Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs

9 February 2007: Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs United Nations

30 September 2008: The Ban on Testing Nuclear Weapons

10 August 2009: Opening of Kazakhstan/Japan joint Exhibition on Against Nuclear Arms” United Nations

29 March 2010: Statement before the Disarmament Commission

12 April 2011: Statement by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Global Day of Action on Military Spending

Main goals:

To spear information on how we can use nuclear energy in a peaceful was.

To prevent the spreading of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.

If we achieve this goals, terrorist will not be able to gain these weapons, it will be much harder for them

To spread peace.

It helps that in a war or there isn’t that risk to be affected by any chemical or nuclear weapons.

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Position Paper from Topic B

Committee: UNODA

Topic: Combating Illicit Firearms In Latin America

Country: Thailand

Delegate: Jimena Niño

School: Colegio Ingles

The illegal trade and circulation of firearms occurs worldwide. It is more concentrated in specific areas that have more conflicts and violence. The trafficking of these small arms and light weapons are a serious threat to national security and a block to economic development. The small arms can be defined as weapons that can be carried by one person and are for personal and individual use as the UN defines them. This topic is a serious and important issue to many governments since the region is full of examples of trading of these illicit arms. Whatever the causes for having these arms are the trading of them is an illegal act. These arms are usually used in robberies, harassment of political rivals and some of them are in hands of other bad people such as local opponents to official policy.

Thailand is one of the countries where having firearms except for any automatic and semi-automatic weapons is permitted having a license. To get that license the minimum age for gun ownership is 20 years old and to get it applicants for it have to prove a sincere reason to posses it, for example sports, hunting, collection, shooting or self-defense and also has to have a clean record considering personal conduct, criminal records and personal living. Since Thailand is considered a high exporter of these arms my delegation is against combating illicit firearms and is in favor of making them legal. In Thailand firearm exports are permitted but limited by transfer control law. The annual value of these exports is US$73,845,002 and imports US$73,845,002.

My delegation suggests making firearms legal in countries having a license for people to have them as self-defense and for them to be able to consume a certain amount of money in them. People who buy them to be aloud to have them only in their country and to not take them to public places where it is not permitted. Also putting more protection in the borders for people to not take arms from one place to another. My delegation will also be open for more solutions.