UNGA’s #FirstCommittee has concluded its work with✨results: ✔️ 63 res.&dec. adopted; ✔️ 471 interventions made in the thematic debates; ✔️160 votes cast in general. 🇵🇱, along with 🇮🇹🇹🇭🇪🇬🇨🇷, has had an honour to steer the 1C’s work against the backdrop of increasing🌎 tensions.

Yesterday, I delivered a presentation about the #UNGA80 #FirstCommittee, @napf's work on advancing nuclear justice with @KiribatiGov and @DisarmKaz, plus @napf's youth initiative @ReverseTT_. Always great to speak to @cyordan's students!

🚨🗳️The #AutonomousWeapons resolution has been adopted. Resolution L.41 tabled by @AustriaUN and 30 cosponsor states at #FirstCommittee has passed with broad cross-regional support. ✅ 156 in favour 🟡8 abstentions ❌5 against Read our analysis: stopkillerrobots.org/news/15…

Watch the highlights from 🇮🇹 Italy's Presidency of the #FirstCommittee for #UNGA80, pivotal committee for global #disarmament and international #security. Congrats to our fellow co-chairs and MS for the work done so far. @ItalyMFA_int @EUatUN @CostaRicaONU @PLinUN @ThailandUN @EgyptPRNewYork @UN_Disarmament @INakamitsu @ansa_english @SIOItweet @UNYDItaly

Another productive week at the #UNGA #FirstCommittee wraps up🤝 #KingdomNL’s priorities: AI in the Military Domain, the establishment of the Global Mechanism as the permanent future cyber platform and UN80 efficiency efforts.

Accusations have been loud at the UN’s #FirstCommittee discussion on #SpaceSecurity but the quiet story is convergence and cautious progress. Voting is today. Catch up with the discussion here: reachingcriticalwill.org/ima…

On the margins of #Firstcommittee, @UN_Disarmament hosted the first-ever #Y4DForum. At the #Y4DForum. @chrisnciobanu of @napf and @ReverseTT_ spoke at the @UN_Disarmament #Youth4Disarmament's Pathways to Disarmament Careers Session.

#UnitedNations80 #FirstCommittee 🎙 Statement by the Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Konstantin Vorontsov at the Thematic Debate on Cluster VI "Regional Disarmament and Security" in the First Committee of the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, October 28, 2025) 💬 Regional security in various parts of the world is facing most serious challenges. Tensions are increasing, hostile rhetoric is growing, current long-standing regional conflicts renew more intensively, new hotbeds of tension are emerging. The "collective West" is progressively implementing a policy of forceful dominance in the world. Military alliances are expanding and their activities are becoming increasingly aggressive. The fundamental principle of indivisible security is being blatantly violated. Extremely alarming global trends in the field of military security continue to gain momentum in Europe as well. NATO countries have begun to implement a course of open confrontation with Russia. As a result, we are witnessing the erosion of the foundations of European security and the collapse of the comprehensive system of arms control and confidence-building measures that took years to develop. <...> Russia has always believed the system of international agreements in arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation to be the cornerstone of international security. However, as a result of the policy of Western countries, this system has deteriorated considerably in recent years. For several decades, the US and its NATO allies have taken steps to dismantle key arms control and confidence-building agreements. Thus, in 2002 Washington unilaterally terminated the Soviet-US Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, and from the Open Skies Treaty in 2020, which forced us to cease participation in this document. In response to the decision of Sweden and Finland to join NATO, which finally and irrevocably destroyed the CFE Treaty system of restrictions, we decided to withdraw from this Treaty in 2023. ❗️ It is possible to return the situation under control and normalize it only on the basis of compliance with the generally recognized norms of international law, the UN principles, its Charter, the goals and objectives of the Organization. ❌ Attempts to resume any dialogue are doomed to failure until NATO truly abandons its policy of disregard for Russia's security interests. Given the current lack of trust and open hostility it is unfounded and naive to expect progress from us in matters of conventional arms control in Europe. Shaping such a regime in the future, if and when it becomes possible, will definitely require fundamentally new approaches and imperative consideration of Russia's national interests. Full statement: mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/new…

States resume #UN discussions on #AutonomousWeapons and other disarmament issues at #FirstCommittee today. It’s time for new safeguards to #StopKillerRobots. Time is running out. ⬇️ Livestream: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k17/k1…

@UN #FirstCommittee @antonioguterres @NobelPrize #NoNukes @TheElders @pass_blue

Read our chapter (p.30) on #AutonomousWeapons (AWS) for updates from last week's meeting including which states mentioned AWS in the #FirstCommittee statements and how progress on this year's resolution is going. 🖊️@issjones

At the @UnitedNations today: governments debate killer robots. We’re here to say loud and clear — humanity must stay in control. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1… #StopKillerRobots #FirstCommittee

🚨 Happening Today: Join our side event on new ways forward on #PAROS at the #UNGA #FirstCommittee 🇺🇳🗽 We're excited to share innovative ideas on #space security, developed by diplomats from 18 countries, experts, and industry 🚀 🕐 13:15 - 14:30 📍Conference Room D

(1/6) This week on the margins of #UNGA80 #FirstCommittee, the @GPWMDOfficial Initiative launched our newest evidence-based tool to support countering activities — the #CBRN #Disinfo Tracker.

What’s at stake at the @UnitedNations today? The future of human control over weapons. Follow #FirstCommittee live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1s/k1… #StopKillerRobots

📢 New Speakers Announced: We are excited to welcome the Chair of the OEWG on #PAROS in All its Aspects Amb. Foradori 🇦🇷 and DPR Tsholofelo Tsheole 🇿🇦 to our #FirstCommittee event with @FCDOGovUK 🇬🇧🤝 Join us this Friday for innovative proposals on #space security 🛰️🌍 #UNGA

🇮🇳 India’s continued expansion of unsafeguarded nuclear stockpiles, canisterization of delivery systems & use of dual-capable missiles undermine regional stability and erode nuclear restraint in South Asia. #UNGA80 #FirstCommittee #Disarmament #SouthAsiaSecurity

Last week Amb Olivier Maes spoke in #UNGA #FirstCommittee general debate to reaffirm Luxembourg’s strong commitment to disarmament and international security   In the current global context, we need to step up & defend multilateral instruments to ensure strategic stability 🇺🇳🇱🇺

#KillerRobots are not science fiction — they’re a real threat to our humanity. We’re at the @UnitedNations urging governments to act now. Watch the #FirstCommittee live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1t/k1… #StopKillerRobots

Ahead of the thematic conversations at #FirstCommittee starting tomorrow at the @UN in New York, @Issjones recaps progress on #AutonomousWeapons at #UNGA80 from the week before ⤵️