Mr. President,

I listened with considerable interest to the NGO-statement, delivered by you, Mr. president, at the beginning of this meeting.

For the future it our hope that the CD can listen to voices from civil society, directly, from the source. Today’s practice is, to put it mildly, quite peculiar and very difficult to understand. The CD is for the moment a deadlocked body. But we should, nevertheless, dear to invite representatives from civil society – occasionally – to our podium and listen to their concerns.

Mr. President,

I also listened with interest to the statement made by the distinguished representative of the DPRK. I fully share his view that an irresponsible unilateral approach is a threat to the multilateral disarmament machinery. As a first step to remedy the current negative state of affairs it would be helpful if the DPRK rejoined the NPT and extended full cooperation to the IAEA, as a verifiable non-nuclear weapon state.

Delivered by Deputy Permanent Representative Mr. Kjetil Paulsen

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