Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

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Austria, CD President, Ambassador Christian Strohal
17 September 2009

I thank the Ambassador of Japan and as usual the document will be circulated by the secretariat.

If there is no other speaker I would now move on to the last item on our agenda, which is the adoption of the annual report.

I would like to invite you to consider the draft report and formalise the understanding we have reached in yesterday's consultations regarding the draft, as contained in Document CD/WP.554/Rev.1 and as amended by Rev.1/Amend.2, which has been circulated to all of you after yesterday's consultations.

I would like to use this opportunity already to thank everybody for their engagement and their flexibility shown in these consultations. I understand that I can take it that the Conference now wishes to adopt the report as contained in Rev.1 and as amended in Amend.2.

Thank you very much, it is so decided.

And once more, thank you for your spirit of compromise which has allowed for a very successful negotiation and adoption of our report. I have now the pleasure to move to the list of speakers for declarations after the adoption of the report. I welcome Ambassador Gábor Iklódy to this Conference, State Secretary and Political Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary.

Welcome to the Conference and I give you the floor with great pleasure.