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Conference on Disarmament Concludes 2002 session

The Conference on Disarmament adopted its annual report and concluded its 2002 session Thursday.


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The Conference on Disarmament adopted its annual report and concluded its 2002 session Thursday.

Ambassador Andras Szabo of Hungary, the president of the Conference, said that during its 2002 session, the conference had come very close to reaching an agreement on the establishment of three Ad Hoc Committees, namely on the issues of a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; of nuclear disarmament; and of negativesecurity assurances.

However, deep controversies persisted over how to deal with agenda item 3 entitled "prevention of an arms race in outer space"(PAROS).

Analysts hold that the question of whether and how quickly differences concerning PAROS could be overcome remained a criticalone.

Speakers regretted that for the fourth consecutive year, the conference had not been able to start its substantive work. They welcome the "Five Ambassadors" initiative and hope that the momentum which it had triggered would continue and allow the conference to end the stalemate in its work early in its 2003 session.

Several speakers also noted the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the continuing war against terrorism, and asa result the need for the conference to fulfill its mandate and help ensure that weapons of mass destruction did not fall in the hands of terrorists.

The conference decided that the dates for three parts of its 2003 session would be from 20 January to 28 March; from 12 May to 27 June; and from 28 July to 10 September.


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