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The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is publishing this paper on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. It aims to provide guidance in support of Member State participation in the Register. The text includes an overview of the Register for reference by Governments and the interested public, as well as original material to guide national points of contact in preparing and submitting reports for the Register. The second part of the paper contains the report of the 2022 Group of Governmental Experts on the continuing operation of the …

Dear Colleagues, We are very pleased to share with you the fifth issue of our newsletter. This issue focuses on the Capstone exercise, which was held in Berlin in September 2022, after several years of COVID-related delays. We are very grateful to our colleagues at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for their perseverance in organizing this exercise through the challenging circumstances of the past few years. They hosted an excellent exercise, and also graciously provided a short interview on their experience as organizers for this newsletter. We are also very pleased to include an interview with Una Jakob and Filippa Lentzos, who both participated in the exercise as observers.  As we look ahead to plans for 2023, we are excited to see growing support for inperson training activities for nominated experts over the course of the year, in addition to the ongoing exercises for nominated laboratories. As always, plans for upcoming activities are outlined in the final section of this …