However, such principles would serve not only as guidelines, but as criteria against which the conduct of negotiating States could be judged.

The Conference on Disarmament was designated as the focal point for these negotiations.

So why is this body only negotiating about negotiations, when the world demands that we negotiate about mines?

The process may use the report as a basis for negotiation of the legal framework.

Cuba is prepared to initiate negotiations immediately on a multilateral convention which would apply this concept and believes that the Conference on Disarmament, as the only multilateral negotiating forum in the area of disarmament, is the appropriate framework for carrying them out.

I also welcomed the United States apos decision to seek to initiate negotiations for this purpose here at the Conference on Disarmament.

If we are to negotiate in 1998, the Conference on Disarmament will have to determine what it is realistically capable of negotiating, and not what individual members see as their only priority.

Israeli practices in the occupied territories only served to complicate the negotiations and undermine their results.

To rid the world apos s arsenals of landmines, we need to negotiate here in the Conference on Disarmament.

In my opinion, the Conference should be ready to conduct negotiations when such a move is feasible.

Nuclear disarmament is an amenable subject for negotiations and the CD is the appropriate forum where such negotiations should be conducted.

It is incumbent upon the CD, as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating body, to discharge its responsibilities in this regard.

They also lack the power to negotiate safe sex.

(c) In the chapeau of operative paragraph 2, the words in international negotiations were deleted at the end of the paragraph.

The decision of each board on funding requirements would form the basis of those negotiations, which could produce multi year pledges.

3. The Fissile Material Cut Off Treaty negotiations should commence immediately as the next item for negotiations in the Conference.

Stressing that a lasting cessation of hostilities is essential for meaningful dialogue, and welcoming in particular the stated commitment of the two sides to negotiate with serious intent and in good faith and not to abandon the process unilaterally until the negotiating agenda is exhausted,

With this goal in mind, it is necessary to continue negotiations and to do so specifically in the framework of the Conference on Disarmament.

We believe that the Conference, as the sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, should concern itself with negotiating legal instruments of global application.

Convinced that the Conference on Disarmament, as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, has the primary role in substantive negotiations on priority questions of disarmament,

Done in parallel, this would also facilitate cut off negotiations.

To that end, there should be negotiations within an ad hoc Committee.

Determined to continue negotiations for the achievement of this goal,

(e) States should endeavour to maintain a constructive atmosphere during negotiations, and to refrain from any conduct which might undermine the negotiations and their progress

In conclusion, my delegation believes that the United Nations remains the natural framework for negotiations on those issues and the adoption of instruments of such importance and that the Conference on Disarmament is the sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum.

The protest note falls within a process of negotiations between the two States which is still in progress.

The protest note falls within a process of negotiations between the two States which is still in progress.

The Conference cannot conduct its negotiations in a vacuum.

Negotiations on maritime transport had been suspended until the start of the new round of services negotiations.

The segment includes a cycle of lectures by senior representatives of States members of the Conference on Disarmament on issues under negotiation in the Conference and attendance at its meetings.

Signed and tendered legal opinion thereon at the conclusion of the negotiations.

The CD has been designated as the forum where an FMCT would be negotiated.

An extensive and complex discussion on this issue is a prerequisite and should carefully lay the ground for eventual negotiations.

To that end, objective and pragmatic negotiations should be held in order to achieve the goals of the Conference on Disarmament and to establish a competent ad hoc committee within the Conference to deal with issues of nuclear disarmament.

Negotiations must continue.

25. He emphasized the importance of the Conference on Disarmament as the sole negotiating body in that domain.

Stressing the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the sole multilateral global negotiating body on disarmament,

I will now comment on our trials in progress.

The application of international negotiations is much broader they are the main tool of international cooperation, managing international relations and creating the new norms of conduct of States.

Negotiations will be conducted by a negotiating committee comprising three representatives of each of the parties and mediated by the Bishop of the diocese.

That is the basis for serious talk.

The Conference can be pro active and prepare itself for future negotiations by undertaking consultations and preparing the ground for such work.

Secondly, other States, sometimes the same ones as those I have just referred to, consider that the Conference on Disarmament would not be able to tackle two parallel sets of negotiations.

There are at least two abiding reasons why the CD should undertake cut off negotiations.

The Secretary General was certainly thus referring, in this room in 1999, to what might be called negotiations on the terms of negotiations.