Malta elected to chair UN Disarmament Commission

Malta’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, ambassador Christopher Grima has been elected to chair the Disarmament Commission next year.

The commission is currently considering two agenda items: “Recommendations for achieving the objective of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons” and “Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons”.

The United Nations Disarmament Commission is a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly composed of all UN member states.

Created as a deliberative body, the Commission considers and makes recommendations on various issues in the field of disarmament and reports annually to the General Assembly.