Recent declarations and press releases on disarmament and non-proliferation

 
Declarations

Nuclear Weapons Non Proliferation Treaty

• Belgian General Statement, Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (Third session. New York, 29 avril-10 Mai 2019)
• Belgian Statement on Cluster I Nuclear Disarmament, Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (Third session. New York, 29 avril-10 Mai 2019)
• Belgian Statement on Cluster II Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (Third session. New York, 29 avril-10 Mai 2019)
• Belgian Statement on Cluster III Peaceful Use, Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (Third session. New York, 29 avril-10 Mai 2019)
•  Statement on cluster 1 issues, Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Second session, April 2018 (PDF, 354.77 KB)
• General Statement, Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Second session, April 2018

 
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

•  Ministerial meeting ‘Group of Friends’ of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Intervention by H.E. Didier Reynders, (New York, 27 September 2018) (PDF, 54.12 KB)
•  Belgian Statement, CTBTO Preparatory Commission, 2017 (PDF, 44.2 KB)
• Intervention à l’occasion du 20ème anniversaire du Traité sur l’interdiction complète des essais nucléaires
• Intervention à l'occasion de la dixième conférence visant à faciliter l’entrée en vigueur du Traité pour l’interdiction complète des essais nucléaires

 
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

•  Intervention de la Belgique à la Conférence des Etats parties à la Convention sur les armes biologiques (4 décembre 2018) (PDF, 283.54 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique à la troisième Conférence des Etats parties de la Convention sur les armes biologiques (PDF, 69.45 KB)

 
Chemical Weapons Convention

•  Statement by the permanent representative of Belgium to the OPCW at the fourth Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties to review the operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (PDF, 93.21 KB)
•  Intervention du Représentant permanent de la Belgique auprès des institutions internationales à La Haye à la 58ème réunion du Conseil exécutif de l’Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques (PDF, 83.94 KB)
•  Déclaration du Représentant permanent de la Belgique auprès des institutions internationales à La Haye à la 59ème réunion du Conseil exécutif de l’Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques (PDF, 92.83 KB)

 
Resolution 1540 of the UNSC

• Intervention pendant le débat ouvert « L’effort mondial afin de prévenir la prolifération d’armes de destruction massive par les acteurs non-étatiques »

 
Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personal Mines

•  General Statement. 17th Meeting of States Parties of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention (26-30 November 2018) (PDF, 310.98 KB)
•  Report of the Committee on Victim Assistance of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention (26 November 2018) (PDF, 294.15 KB)
•  General Statement, 16th Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention (PDF, 82.06 KB)
•  Opening remarks by H.R.H. Princess Astrid of Belgium to the Panel “Keeping People at the Heart of the Convention: Effective Victim Assistance”, 16th Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention (PDF, 68.66 KB)

 
Convention on Cluster Munitions

•  Déclaration sur la coopération et l’assistance internationales. Convention sur les armes à sous-munition. Huitième Réunion des Etats parties (Genève, 3-5 septembre 2018) (PDF, 216.91 KB)
•  Déclaration sur l’assistance aux victimes. Convention sur les armes à sous-munitions. Huitième réunion des Etats parties (Genève, 3-5 septembre 2018) (PDF, 225.02 KB)
•  General Statement, Seventh Meeting of States Parties (6MSP) to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (PDF, 41.74 KB)

 
Convention on certain Conventional Weapons

•  Statement of Belgium at the GGE LAWS on policy options (PDF, 182.24 KB)
•  Statement of Belgium at the GGE LAWS on Mili Application (PDF, 97.17 KB)
•  Statement of Belgium at the GGE LAWS on Human Element (PDF, 181.07 KB)
•  Statement of Belgium at the GGE LAWS - Segment on characteristics (PDF, 186.66 KB)
•  Statement of Belgium at the GGE LAWS - Challenges to international humanitarian law (PDF, 195.63 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Débat Général, Rencontre des Hautes parties contractantes à la CCAC (Genève, 21-23 novembre 2018) (PDF, 275.71 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique sur les Engins Explosifs Improvisés, 20ième Conférence des Hautes Parties contractantes au Protocole II amendé de la CCAC (Genève, 20 novembre 2018) (PDF, 400.04 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Débat Général, 12ième Conférence des Hautes Parties Contractantes au Protocole V de la CCAC (Genève, 19 novembre 2018) (PDF, 272.94 KB)
•  Statement of Belgium. Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (27-31 August 2018). Political options segment. (PDF, 193.45 KB)
•  Statement of Belgium. Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (27-31 August 2018). Human Element segment. (PDF, 279.96 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Groupe d’experts gouvernementaux sur les Systèmes d’Armes Létaux Autonomes, CCW, novembre 2017 (PDF, 53.15 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Débat Général, Réunion des Hautes Parties contractantes 2017 (PDF, 56.33 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Débat Général, 19ième Conférence des Hautes Parties contractantes au Protocole II amendé (PDF, 47.2 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Débat Général, 11ième Conférence des Hautes Parties Contractantes au Protocole V (PDF, 46.23 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique sous le point « Emerging issues of relevance to the Convention », Réunion des Hautes Parties contractantes 2017 (PDF, 54.92 KB)

 
Arms Trade Treaty

•  General Statement. Arms Trade Treaty Fourth Conference of States Parties (Tokyo, 20-24 August 2018) (PDF, 69.55 KB)
•  Statement on Agenda Item 5 on Treaty implementation. Arms Trade Treaty Fourth Conference of States Parties (Tokyo, 20-24 August 2018) (PDF, 163.16 KB)
•  Statement on Transparency and reporting. Arms Trade Treaty Fourth Conference of States Parties (Tokyo, 20-24 August 2018) (PDF, 159.04 KB)
•  Statement on Agenda Item 10 on matters pertaining to Financial Contributions. Arms Trade Treaty Fourth Conference of States Parties (Tokyo, 20-24 August 2018) (PDF, 78.92 KB)
•  Intervention de la Belgique au Débat Général, Troisième Réunion des Etats parties au Traité sur le Commerce des Armes (PDF, 46.03 KB)
•  Statement on Treaty Implementation, Arms Trade Treaty Third Conference of States Parties (PDF, 43.23 KB)
•  Statement on Transparency and Reporting, Arms Trade Treaty third Conference of States Parties (PDF, 52.87 KB)
•  Statement on the Thematic discussion on ATT and SDGs, Arms Trade Treaty third Conference of States Parties (PDF, 58.26 KB)

 
Conference on Disarmament

•  Conférence du désarmement, Intervention de S.E. Didier Reynders (26 février 2019) (PDF, 174.33 KB)

 

Press releases disarmament and non-proliferation

• Didier Reynders regrets the demise of the INF Treaty, milestone of nuclear disarmament and Euro-Atlantic security (2/08/2019)
• Didier Reynders: Belgium committed to prevent the use of autonomous lethal weapons systems (23/03/2019)
• Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign Memorandum of Understanding on scientific cooperation in the framework of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (31/01/2019)
• The Convention of the Prohibition of Cluster Munitions celebrates its tenth anniversary (3/12/2018)
• Belgium contributes €2M to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (22/10/2018)
• EU Foreign Affairs Council Luxembourg: Didier Reynders supports the fight against chemical weapons (15/10/2018)
• In New York, Didier Reynders calls for a ban on nuclear tests (27/09/2018)
• Identification of the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria possible again (26/06/2018)
• Belgium supports the fight against the use of chemical weapons (7/03/2018)
• 20th anniversary of the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines (01/12/2017)
• Didier Reynders chairs Ministerial Conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in New York (20/09/2017)
• Belgium celebrates 20th anniversary of Ottawa Convention - Together for a world without anti-personnel mines (18/09/2017)
• Didier Reynders condemns launch of ballistic missiles by North Korea (29/08/2017)
• First mustard gas attack 100 years ago: Didier Reynders calls for an end to the use of chemical weapons (12/07/2017)
• Fight against anti-personnel mines: the Brussels Declaration is 20 years old (27/06/2017)