General Assembly - UNIDIR

Contents
Paragraphs
A/56/359
I. Introduction .......................................................... 1–6 5
A. Report of the Director of the Institute ................................. 1–2 5
B. Review of the report of the Director by the Board of Trustees ............. 3–6 5
II. Management and staffing ............................................... 7–9 5
III. Subvention from the United Nations regular budget .......................... 10–12 5
IV. Recent and planned activities ............................................ 13–62 6
A. Global security and disarmament ..................................... 14–38 6
1. The Conference on Disarmament. ................................ 15–17 6
2. Nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. ................. 18–22 6
3. Missiles and missile defences. ................................... 23–26 7
4. Biological weapons ............................................ 27–29 7
5. Space technologies ............................................ 30 8
6. Implementing treaties .......................................... 31–33 8
7. Security and disarmament thinking ............................... 34–38 8
B. Regional security and disarmament ................................... 39–45 8
1. Peacekeeping ................................................. 40 9
2. Latin America ................................................ 41 9
3. Asia ........................................................ 42–43 9
4. The Middle East .............................................. 44–45 9
C. Human security and disarmament .................................... 46–62 9
1. Small arms in West Africa ...................................... 47–50 9
2. Weapons destruction and stockpile management in South Africa ....... 51 10
3. Weapons for development. ...................................... 52 10
4. Regional and cross-regional perspectives on illicit trafficking in small
arms ........................................................ 53 10
5. The possession of military weapons by civilians .................... 54 11
6. Militarization of refugee camps .................................. 55 11
7. Geneva Forum seminars on small arms ............................ 56–58 11
8. Landmines ................................................... 59–61 12
9. Health and security ............................................ 62 12
V. Networking. .......................................................... 63–78 12
A. Electronic networking .............................................. 64–65 12
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