Disarmament Calendar 2008: Main Conferences & Events

January	1 January	EU Presidency passes to Slovenia
	21 January - 28 March	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
	28 January	President Bush gives the State of the Union address
	23 - 27 January	World Economic Forum annual meeting, Davos
February	8 February	Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, resumption of talks
	7 - 8 February	NATO Defence Ministers Informal Meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania
	16 - 17 February	CND Global Summit for a Nuclear Free World, London
March	2 March	Russia Presidential Election
March	3 - 7 March	IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Vienna
April	2 - 4 April	NATO Summit, Bucharest
	7 - 25 April 26	UN Disarmament Commission, New York
	28 April - 9 May	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom, Geneva
May
May	12 May - 27 June	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
June
June	2 - 6 June	IAEA Board of Governors, Vienna
July
	1 July	40th Anniversary of the opening for signature of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
	7 - 9 July	G8 Summit, Tokyo
	16 July	61st anniversary of Trinity, the first nuclear weapon test
	28 July - 12 September	Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
August	6 August	62nd anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
	9 August	62nd anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki
	August 20 - 24	Biological Weapons Convention, meeting of experts, Geneva
September	September - December	UN General Assembly, New York
	22 - 26 September	IAEA Board of Governors, Vienna, Austria
	29 September - 3 October	IAEA General Conference opens, Vienna, Austria
October
October	October - November	UN First Committee, New York
November	4 November	US Presidential Election
November	27 - 28 November	IAEA Board of Governors opens, Vienna
December	1 - 5 December	Biological Weapons Convention Annual Meeting, Geneva
December	5 December	Due date on the decision to extend the START I nuclear arms reduction treaty.

For further information see:

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