L.20

Report of the Disarmament Commission

United States delegation

I would like to provide an EOV on L.20, the Report of the Disarmament Commission. The United State is mindful of the potential contribution of the UN Disarmament Commission to international peace and security, and so has joined consensus on draft resolution L.20. However, our Delegation is disappointed that the UNDC failed this year, after several years of work, to produce agreed conclusions on either of the two important topics under discussion. If the Disarmament Commission is to break away from this cycle of futility, we believe that the Commission must start to address topics that are both relevant to current security concerns and sufficiently focused to bring delegations together in a constructive and cooperative manner. Our Delegation hopes that the organizational meeting next month will identify realistic, focused and relevant issues for the Commission to address during its next three-year cycle.

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