Unofficial Transcript
The Netherlands
21 June 2006

Thank you Madame Chair, and thank you for the most excellent way you and your team have guided the Conference on Disarmament over those last weeks.  What is clear over those last weeks is that one of the profound problems we face is actually the open ended character of Conference on Disarmament— it lacks sense of urgency that we can find in conferences that do have an end date and those can be important ones like the NPT and other conferences.  The Conference on Disarmaments does not have that and it leads to a situation as we see so often that there is no urgency enough for us to proceed.  I have heard today again that your efforts are appreciated very much and those are sincere remarks, but what I have not heard today enough is that text proposals might be put forward today or tomorrow to the documents that are on the table so that we might quickly come to conclusions.  That is a procedure that as I have said is very important in conferences when the end is in sight.  It is our expectation that a text proposal to every single issue might be put forward so that solutions can be reached. 

Thank you. 

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