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=== United Nations ===
{{Main|United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs}}
The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) is a department of the [[United Nations Secretariat]] established in January 1998 as part of the [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Kofi Annan]]'s plan to reform the UN as presented in his report to the [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly]] in July 1997.<ref>{{cite web |author=Kofi Annan |url=https://undocs.org/A/51/950 |title=Renewing the United Nations: A Program for Reform |id=A/51/950 |publisher=United Nations |date=July 14, 1997 |access-date=March 17, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318000952/http://undocs.org/A/51/950 |archive-date=March 18, 2017}}</ref>

Its goal is to promote nuclear disarmament and [[non-proliferation]] and the strengthening of the disarmament regimes in respect to other weapons of mass destruction, [[chemical weapon|chemical]] and [[biological agent|biological weapons]]. It also promotes disarmament efforts in the area of [[conventional weapon]]s, especially [[land mine]]s and [[small arms]], which are often the weapons of choice in contemporary conflicts.