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Disarmament Calendar 2009: Main Conferences & Events

January	1 January	EU Presidency passes to the Czech Republic
	19 January-27 March	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
	21 January	Inauguration of President Obama
	28 January - 1 February	World Economic Forum annual meeting, Davos
February	4 February	U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Lifting the Nuclear Shadow: Creating the Conditions for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, speech, London
	6 - 8 February	Munich Security Conference, Germany
	13 - 14 February	International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, second meeting, Washington
	19 - 20 February	NATO Informal Defence Ministers' meeting, Krakow, Poland
	24 or 25 February	President Obama State of the Union Address, Washington
March	2 - 6 March	IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
March	5 March	NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting, Brussels
April	3 - 4 April	NATO Summit, Strasbourg, France / Kehl, Germany
April	13 April - 1 May	UN Disarmament Commission, New York
May
	4 - 15 May	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty preparatory committee meeting, held at the UN, New York
	18 May - 3 July	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
June
	2 June	Presidential Election, Iran
	2 - 6 June	IAEA Board of Governors, Vienna
July
	7 - 9 July	G8 Summit, Sardinia, Italy
	16 July	Anniversary of Trinity, the first nuclear weapon test
August	3 August-18 September	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
	6 August	Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
	9 August	Anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki
	24 - 28 August	Biological Weapons Convention, meeting of experts, Geneva
September	September - December	UN General Assembly, New York
	7 - 11 September	IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
	14 - 18 September	IAEA General Conference, Vienna
	22 September	IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
	23 - 25 September	Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, at the UN, New York
October
October	1 October - 3 November	UN First Committee, New York
November	26 - 27 November	IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
	27 - 28 November	IAEA Board of Governors opens, Vienna
	30 November - 4 December	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting, The Hague, Netherlands
December	1 December	New IAEA Director-General takes office, Vienna
	5 December	START nuclear arms reduction treaty expires
	7 December	Biological Weapons Convention annual meeting, Geneva

For further information see:

http://disarmament.un.org
http://www.iaea.org
http://europa.eu.int
http://www.fcnl.org/NuclearCalendar/index.php