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International Calendar of Events 2008

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

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

12 May - 27 June

Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

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 - November

UN First Committee, New York

November

4 November

US Presidential Election

27 - 28 November

IAEA Board of Governors opens, Vienna

December

1 - 5 December

Biological Weapons Convention Annual Meeting, Geneva

5 December

Due date on the decision to extend the START I nuclear arms reduction treaty.

For further dates, in particular US Congressional events, see also: FCNL Nuclear Calendar.

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