Abstract
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is the global community’s chief authority on the issues of weapons reduction. Among its responsibilities UNODA acts as the U.N. Secretary-General’s liaison in fulfilling the obligations established by both the Ottawa Convention and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. The Office for Disarmament Affairs’ Geneva branch oversees these activities and is responsible—in accordance with the Ottawa Convention—for collecting Article 7 reports, maintaining the list of Article 8 experts and organizing meetings of States Parties, as well as organizing meetings pertaining to the CCW.
Recommended Citation
JOURNAL, CISR
(2008)
"United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs,"
The Journal of ERW and Mine Action
: Vol. 12
:
Iss.
2
, Article 39.
Available at:
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol12/iss2/39
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