Tom Shannon The painter and the pendulum

The language in the Shannon report captures this diversity of views.

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Minister Pettigrew noted that Canada remained convinced that the Shannon mandate remained the best basis for initiating negotiations.

Pakistan supports negotiations, in accordance with the Shannon mandate, for a universal, non discriminatory, multilateral and effectively verifiable treaty.

This resolution was based on the report by Ambassador Gerald Shannon and the mandate set out in document CD 1299.

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Egypt's position on this matter is reflected in the 1995 report by Ambassador Shannon, the Special Coordinator of the Conference, on the elimination of fissile material.

Needless to say, Japan supported the Shannon mandate and still supports it, although Japan can be flexible with other proposals on FMCT provided that there is a consensus.

In that regard, over the past 10 years, it has called for the negotiation of a non discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty in accordance with the Shannon mandate.

Besides those supporting the mandate in the Shannon report, some want the CD to negotiate an FMCT without verification. Some others prefer a non discriminatory, universally applicable FMCT without any preconditions while still taking account of the mandate in the Shannon report. Some members feel the FMCT must be verifiable but argue that the issue of verification can be dealt with in the process of negotiations and should not be a precondition for initiating negotiations.

A former Canadian Ambassador, the late Gerry Shannon, worked hard in the middle 1990s to develop a negotiating mandate for the FMCT, which until recent months enjoyed universal support in this forum.

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In 1995, by the so called Shannon mandate, the Conference on Disarmament was requested to start negotiation on a verifiable fissile material cut off treaty in the context of an ad hoc committee.

The Shannon report was not easily arrived at it was the result of hard negotiations, the common denominator of all the interests concerned representing a delicate balance of concerns for all the parties.

First, when the Shannon mandate was so painstakingly and cleverly developed in 1995, it explicitly envisaged that such a treaty would have a verification mechanism, a matter of fundamental importance to my delegation.

It would be our hope that in the course of these negotiations the benefits of a non discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty , as envisaged in the Shannon mandate, would become evident to all.

Sweden would be ready to start negotiating an FMCT immediately on the basis of either the A 5 proposal, i.e. the Shannon mandate, or the informal food for thought paper floated by the Ambassador of the Netherlands.

The Shannon report adopted by the CD in 1995 defines the mandate as negotiating a non discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.

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We still agree that the CD should negotiate on the basis of the mandate in the Shannon report, and believe that the correct approach to the cessation of production of fissile material should be the adoption of a legal instrument through negotiations.

With few notable exceptions, such as US Ambassador to Brazil Tom Shannon, US diplomacy has lacked a strategic vision for Latin America. Barack Obama s 2008 election created high expectations in this region, too but his administration s approach has been reserved, at best, and often obtuse.

They have a responsibility in the CD to promote an international instrument on the prohibition of the manufacture of fissile material in accordance with the Shannon mandate and to see to it that the role of nuclear weapons in security policies and doctrines is downgraded.

However, in order to enable the four ad hoc committees to be set up quickly, our countries would be prepared to consider the possibility of modifying the Shannon mandate insofar as this may assist achieving the necessary consensus to end the deadlock in our work.

Well, Shannon took us, in the '40s, from here to here from a telephone being a speaker wire that degraded with distance to the Internet. And he proved the first threshold theorem, that shows if you add information and remove it to a signal, you can compute perfectly with an imperfect device.

The evolution of consensus building in this direction, from the passage of the unanimous 1993 United Nations General Assembly resolution 48 75 L to the adoption of the Shannon report by the CD in 1998, culminated in an agreement among nations an agreement to begin negotiations on a universal, non discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.