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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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