The Conference on Disarmament (CD), established in 1979 as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, was a result of the first Special Session on Disarmament of the United Nations General Assembly held in 1978. It succeeded other Geneva-based negotiating fora, which include the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament (1960), the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament (1962-68), and the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (1969-78).

The current Director-General of UNOG is the Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament as well as the Personal Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the CD.

Inquiries	Contact
List of Speakers, scheduling of meetings, conference room reservations, badges, records of meetings, List of Participants, “Yellow Book”, and other information related to meetings	Ms. Hardewall 022-917-3036 lhardewall@unog.ch or Ms. Dehant 022-917-2279 adehant@unog.ch
Recorded List of Speakers (from 5.00 p.m. on the eve of Plenary Meetings)	022-917-3629 This number is not answered when there is no recorded message
Inquiries not listed above, including inquiries when the Conference is not in session	Ms. Sitaraman 022-917-2281 ssitaraman@unog.ch