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CONFERENCE ON NOTES

DISARMAMENT [CD]
 The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral disarmament forum established by the
international community to negotiate arms control and disarmament agreements in Geneva.
The Conference meets annually in three separate sessions in Geneva.
 The Conference was first established in 1979 as the Committee on Disarmament as the single
multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community. It was renamed
the Conference on Disarmament in 1984.
 The Conference is formally independent from the United Nations. However, while it is not
formally a UN organization, it is linked to it in various ways. First and foremost, the Director-
General of the United Nations Office at Geneva serves as the Secretary-General of the
Conference. Furthermore, while the Conference adopts its own rules of procedure and
agenda, the United Nations General Assembly can pass resolutions recommending specific
topics to the Conference.
 Initially, the Conference and its predecessors were successful in meeting their mandate. They
were instrumental in drafting numerous arms control agreements: most importantly, the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968), the Biological Weapons
Convention (1972), the Chemical Weapons Convention (1993) and the Comprehensive Nuclear-
Test-Ban Treaty (1996).
 However, the work of the body was stalled for over a decade, as members were unable to
agree on a work program after the passage of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Difficulties included strained relations between key players, disagreement among members on
the prioritization of issues, and attempts of some countries to link progress in one area to
parallel progress in other areas.
 Then, in 2009 a breakthrough was made by the body when it established several working
groups to tackle various topics under the Conference's authority. These group focused on:
negotiating a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons (FMCT),
creating practical steps to reduce nuclear weapons, Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer
Space (PAROS) and addressing negative security assurances.
 Due to the general dysfunction of the Conference and its limited membership, negotiations for
the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took place at the United Nations, and
not at the Conference.
 The Conference was created with a permanent agenda, also known as the "Decalogue," which
includes the following topics:

1. Nuclear weapons in all aspects


2. Other weapons of mass destruction
3. Conventional weapons
4. Reduction of military budgets
5. Reduction of armed forces
6. Disarmament and development

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7. Disarmament and international security
8. Collateral measures; confidence building measures; effective verification methods in NOTES
relation to appropriate disarmament measures, acceptable to all parties

9. Comprehensive programme of disarmament leading to general and complete


disarmament under effective international control
Additionally, all decisions of the body must be agreed upon by consensus according to the rules
and procedures of the conference

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