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Interview with Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

03/20/2014

| Anglais/English/Inglés, International Diplomat

On 2 July 2007, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil as the High Representative for Disarmament at the Under-Secretary-General level. Mr. Duarte is not a newcomer to diplomacy for he served for 48 years in the Brazilian Foreign Service before taking up his new position in the United Nations. He has a solid experience of disarmament issues to his credit, and we might mention in passing that he was…

Disarmament. Non-proliferation. Negotiations. Treaties

05/16/2008

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Geneva International

Disarmament. Non-proliferation. Negotiations. Treaties. These are words that matter. These are words that affect our lives. These are words that drive the work of the Conference on Disarmament, the world’s sole multilateral forum to negotiate arms control treaties, and it is located right here in Geneva. The Conference on Disarmament, or more informally referred to as the “CD,” was established by a Special Session on Disarmament of the United Nations in 1978, and succeeded other Geneva-based negotiating fora. The…