But of course he did not himself decide on the negotiating mandate.

The consolidated negotiating text by the Chairman which follows responds to the above mandate.

Consequently, the United States supports a negotiating mandate that does not refer to verification measures.

This brings us to the issue of an APL negotiating mandate in the Conference here.

Here again, in order to promote consensus, concessions have been made, and the original negotiating mandate has been limited to a discussion mandate.

Several delegations have pointed to the synergies between subparagraphs 31 (i) and (ii) of the negotiating mandate.

So the negotiating mandate for the fissile material cut off presents this body with a clear choice.

The mandate of the European Commission would not prevent individual member States from negotiating in their own right.

Its mandate makes it the sole international body with responsibility for negotiating agreements on arms regulation and disarmament.

We advocate the adoption of a clean negotiating mandate on such a treaty, unencumbered by linkages to unrelated proposals.

It has repeatedly called for the establishment of an ad hoc group with a negotiating mandate for this purpose.

In our view it is crucial that any negotiating mandate agreed upon should stipulate a clear obligation to reach a total ban.

5. In the Conference on Disarmament, which is the only multilateral negotiating forum on disarmament, the Group of 21 has insisted on the need for establishing an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament with a negotiating mandate.

That raises another important question Does US President Barack Obama really have a domestic mandate for negotiating a comprehensive repeal of the sanctions?

Several bilateral and plurilateral initiatives are sprouting, but legally and politically they cannot detract from the CD's mandate as the sole disarmament negotiating forum.

We remain committed to the Berlin Mandate, the negotiating process it has launched and to a successful outcome at the Conference in Kyoto next year.

As a means of building further on the French initiative, I am today tabling a proposal for a negotiating mandate for such an ad hoc committee.

Negotiating texts

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But this body, having agreed two springs ago to a negotiating mandate, has found itself unable to proceed because a few delegations have chosen to block consensus even to initiate negotiations.

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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.

Therefore, throughout the process, Mexico focused its efforts on seeking a consensus, first with respect to the negotiating mandate for a convention, and then in connection with the adoption of the Declaration.

The Conference on Disarmament had been given a specific negotiating mandate by the 2000 Review Conference, which it has unfortunately failed to realize, due to continued gridlock over a programme of work.

At the same time we would have serious difficulties with a mandate not stipulating a total ban on use and production as the ultimate goal of the negotiating process in the CD.

They won't move. They're not negotiating.

The CD is a negotiating forum.

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Their difficulties range from managing multiple negotiating processes to complexity of rules, as well as assessing particular negotiating scenarios.

In the interests of securing consensus on the programme of work, Russia has stated that it is prepared not to object to well known compromise initiatives providing for the establishment of an ad hoc committee on PAROS not with a negotiating mandate but rather with a discussion mandate.

If we succeed in reaching agreement to hold consultations on a negotiating mandate in the Conference on Disarmament for the total and immediate prohibition of mines, we must simultaneously intensify our efforts to establish a programme of work and negotiating mechanisms on the subjects that really do belong on the agenda of the Conference.

Negotiators will also have to overcome significant structural obstacles. As the European Commission struggles to secure a clear negotiating mandate from all 27 member states, the US will face its own internal coordination problems.

Canada has stated its willingness to be flexible on the precise mandate for negotiating a fissile material cut off treaty as part of a compromise package on a programme of work for the Conference.

Parties are invited to focus their negotiations on the consolidated negotiating text at the eighth session of the AGBM, in order to reach agreement on the final text for a protocol or another legal instrument to be adopted by the COP at its third session, and thereby fulfill the mandate entrusted to them. CONSOLIDATED NEGOTIATING TEXT BY THE CHAIRMAN

The terms of a mandate can be further defined by developing the principal elements that could be drawn from the existing General Assembly and Economic and Social Council resolutions and similar intergovernmental processes establishing intergovernmental negotiating processes (see the annex to the present note for possible elements of a mandate).

They've got incredible people skills, negotiating skills.

The Conference shall establish a Negotiating Group.

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