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1 Jerzy Zaleski, New Types and Systems of WMD: Consideration by the CD 1 (2011)

handle is hein.unl/unaadt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: New Types and Systems of WMD: Consideration by the CD May 2011 The CD Discussion Series Between December 2010 and July 2011, the UNIDIR project The Conference on Disarmament: Breaking the Ice and the Geneva Forum are organizing a series of thematic discussions to examine the myths and realities of the CD-as well as the critical challenges facing it-with the aim to increase understanding of the history, processes and issue areas of this unique negotiating forum. Background paper by Jerzy Zaleski for the discussion New forms of WMD, transparency in armaments, and a comprehensive programme of disarmament- obsolete or ignored? organized by UNIDIR and the Geneva Forum, 6 May 2011 Origins of the item on new types of WMD 1. Oddly, the term weapons of mass destruction was defined by the Commission for Conventional Armaments. In its first resolution, adopted in 1948, the Commission advised the Security Council that all armaments and armed forces, except atomic weapons and weapons of mass destruction fall within its jurisdiction and also stated that weapons of mass destruction should be defined to include atomic explosive weapons, radioactive material weapons, lethal chemical and biological weapons, and any weapons developed in the future which have characteristics comparable in destructive effect to those of the atomic bomb or other weapons mentioned above.' Thus, the Commission incidentally established guidance for the differentiation of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. 2. The issue of possible new weapons was presented to the General Assembly in 1969 by Malta and, subsequently, the General Assembly adopted two resolutions on the subject. By the first resolution, the Assembly invited the Conference of the 1 See Commission for Conventional Armaments, Resolution Adopted by the Commission at Its Thirteenth Meeting, 12 August 1948, and a Second Progress Report of the Commission, UN document S/C.3/32/Rev.1, 12 August 1948. Until October 2009, Jerzy Zaleski served as the Senior Political Affairs Officer in the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, acting as the Secretary of the Conference on Disarmament and a senior member of the Secretariat of the Review Conferences of States Parties to the NPT, and earlier also to the Review Conferences of the BWC and CCW. In 2005 he was elected the Secretary-General of the 2005 NPT Review Conference. He also supervised the United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament. Prior to entering the United Nations Office in Geneva, he was the Head of the Political Division of the Department of the UN System in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. His responsibilities included disarmament, arms control and international security and the UN peacekeeping operations; he also acted as the Executive Secretary of the Polish delegations to the UN General Assembly sessions. He holds a master degree in electronics and computer sciences and a postgraduate diploma in international relations. Zaleski is currentlyan independent disarmament consultant. DEAS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY

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