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New Zealand is to host the 2001 United Nations Asia-Pacific Regional Disarmament Conference. Traditionally, these annual conferences are held in Kathmandu.

A peace activist, a former soldier and a journalist will be amongst the new faces on the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control (PACDAC) when it next meets in November.

Over 90% of New Zealanders want tougher controls on guns, and more than 80% want military style machine guns off our streets, says Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control Matt Robson.

The New Zealand government is holding discussions with the United Nations Asia Pacific Centre For Disarmament on the possibility of New Zealand hosting a disarmament conference early next year, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control Matt Robson anno

Tena Koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou.

Greetings to you all on this very significant occasion.

Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control Matt Robson and Minister of Health Annette King will open a new nuclear monitoring station at Kaitaia tomorrow.

Health Minister, Annette King, Disarmament Minister, Matt Robson, and Te Tai Tokerau MP, Dover Samuels, will open a new nuclear monitoring station at Kaitaia on Friday. The new station will help police a worldwide ban on nuclear testing.

A new global agenda to rid the world of nuclear weapons was agreed today in New York, with New Zealand's Disarmament Ambassador Clive Pearson in the Chair.

New Zealand is chairing the important Negotiating Committee on Nuclear Disarmament, Minister of Disarmament Matt Robson announced today on his return from the NPT conference in New York.

Russia’s ratification of the START II agreement opens the gate for new advances in the push towards nuclear disarmament, Disarmament Minister Matt Robson said today.

"The head of the Vienna-based nuclear test ban organisation whom I met with today, praised New Zealand's nuclear disarmament position and showed interest in our initiatives to shift the stalled debate internationally," Minister of Disarmament Matt Robso

Matt Robson, Minister of Disarmament will meet with the head of the Vienna-based CTBT organisation tomorrow.

Today the Chatham Islands became part of a new global move to eliminate nuclear weapons from the world. Once again, we are in the forefront of the disarmament movement," Minister of Disarmament, Matt Robson says.

Minister of Disarmament, Matt Robson and Minister of health and MP for Rongotai Annette King will open the Chatham Islands nuclear test monitoring station on Monday.

Minister of Disarmament Matt Robson welcomed indications from China that it wants to see the Conference on Disarmament's work this year include preventing an arms race in outer space.

The Director General of the IAEA, an intergovermental organisation within the United Nations paid a visit to Minister of Disarmament, Matt Robson today and spoke highly of New Zealand’s ‘moral authority’ in the nuclear disarmament debate internationall

"As disarmament talks stall internationally, New Zealand's role in creating a world free of nuclear weapons is once again vital," says new Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, the Hon. Matt Robson.