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begin
He said: "The international
to
mandate tum. I urge you to build on disarmament in Geneva
negotiations on a Fissile community values the this progress." have shared with us. The
Material Cut-Off Treaty Conference on Disarma- CD is a Geneva organiza-
(FMCT) for years. Last ment as the worldc single Despite the challenges tion, and these issues are
year it almost reached that multilateral disarmament faced in the CD, there has dealt with here, at the
elusive goal, but a small negotiating forum - but we been considerable progress Palais des Nations. What
handful of the CD's 65 need progress. We need in the field of disarmament the CD does, or can do,
members still had concerns, progress because concerted and non-proliferation over affects all of us, so we
and the world was left disarmament will forestall the past decade. From small better pay attention.
waiting another year for the arms races. And forestal- arms to land mines, from
body to begin negotiations ling arms races calms ten- chemical weapons to D.K
on a multilateral arms sions. By reducing tensions, nuclear weapons, arms are
control treaty in the new we free up resources that being increasingly moni-
century. would have been diverted tored and controlled, and
to armaments. These more measures are in
Highlighting the importan- resources can then be used place to protect the world
ce of the CD and the issues to achieve the Millennium from itself. The CD is
it addresses, UN Secretary Development Goals." tasked to move this
General Ban Ki-moon agenda forward, and it
personally came to Geneva He concluded by saying, seeks to do so by building
January 23 to officially "You have great potential to consensus among nation
inaugurate its 2008 session. move forward this year The states to address issues of
The Secretary General level of engagement in the most importance.
went out of his way to urge Conference
on
the CD to make 2008 what Disarmament since 2006 The interviews that follow
he hoped would be a has been promising. The shed light on some of the
"break-though year." General Assembly has key issues that leading
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