Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

Statement by Ambassador Masood Khan of Pakistan to the Conference on Disarmament 19th August 2008

Unofficial Transcript

Thank you Mr. President. I appreciate the interventions that have been made by the representatives of New Zealand, Brazil and Ireland.

I particularly appreciate the civil and courteous torn in which the reservations were expressed by New Zealand and Brazil. I also welcome and appreciate the very thorough analysis by the Ambassador of New Zealand to the points I had raised and his response to those points. New Zealand has been a passionate advocate of commencement of work in the CD and we can fully associate with that sentiment. My feeling is that after having heard the argument or responses that I was partially heard and therefore the responses from Brazil and New Zealand were partial.

We still haven’t gone to the heart of the matter but it was good to hear the perspective of New Zealand and Brazil and their prescription for a preferred solution.

I particularly welcome the offer of engagement by ambassador of New Zealand and I can assure the Ambassador of brazil that Pakistan has carefully noted his remarks about the contents and the tenor of the report which will be drafted by the CD and of course would be open to suggestions and we think that we should not give the signal that the conference on disarmament will have to start from scratch next year.

Thank you Mr. President.