Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

Unofficial Transcript
China
21 June 2007

Thank you Madame President. To the questions you raised just now, I need some more time to study it. With your permission I would like to make a statement.

Madame President, over the past few weeks as President of CD you have made tremendous efforts to bring forward the work of the CD. To your wisdom, creativity and leadership we would like to express our appreciation and gratitude. I believe that your contribution will remain in our memory for long.

Madame President, after a series of consultations, you have put forward those documents you mentioned just now. We believe this has been the measures towards a correct direction which have laid out a good foundation for us to reach consensus on L.1. At the same time we still have some worries and concerns concerning the status and content of the Complementary Statement—rather we have some queries and concerns. We believe it would be more reasonable and clear for the Complementary Statement to be an integral part of L.1. We also believe wording of paragraph 3 of the Draft Complementary Statement leaves room for further improvement.

In addition, my delegation shares the remarks made by the Ambassador of India on the issue of FMCT. Madame President, I’d like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our position to support breaking away from the deadlock in the CD and support the utilization for the negotiations of an FMCT by the CD. At the same time, we advocate for substantive work on the agenda items of PAROS and other agenda items. We believe this will be helpful to the promotion of the process of international disarmament and nonproliferation and to safeguard international peace and security. This position of ours has been expressed in many different locations. My delegation wishes to join other parties in further and continued efforts and by giving play to the spirit of compromise and mutual negotiation as emphasized by Ban Ki-moon in order to reach, at the end of the day, a solution which may not be entirely satisfactory but acceptable to all parties.

Thank you