On 22 Feb, @UN_Disarmament High Representative @INakamitsu delivered a video message at the #ChemicalWeaponsConvention Coalition Webinar: Ten Years of Chemical Weapons Use in #Syria with @OPCW. LISTEN 👉[bit.ly/3HxEVFT]. SEE 👉 [bit.ly/3huIpOU]. @INakamitsu @OPCW In her message, the High Representative underscored that #ChemicalWeapons use in Syria, Malaysia, Iraq, the UK and Russia had threatened the norms embedded in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and profoundly damaged the disarmament and non-proliferation efforts.

On 8 and 9 February, Botswana hosted a workshop on its 1540 national implementation action plan (NAP) for implementing the key provisions of #UNSCR1540, in partnership with @UN_Disarmament and the #1540Committee, with the support of the US and the EU. 👉 bit.ly/3hoBk2r Ambassador Ramón de la Fuente, Chair of the #1540Committee, opened the workshop.

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the very first @UN General Assembly resolution, Res 1 (I), adopted following the 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombings, on the elimination of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction. (1/4)👇 On this occasion, see @UNIC_Tokyo’s video story about @Anju_niwata, a university student from Hiroshima, who uses AI technology to colorize black & white photographs to reboot and keep alive memories of the Hibakusha, the atomic bomb survivors👉 bit.ly/3G0CD1g.(2/4)

🔖 TPNW Facts (1/4)👇 ✔️ The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons #TPNW is the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than two decades. (2/4)