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GENEVA, Jan 19 (KUNA) -- The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole
multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold its first public
plenary session of 2012, on January 24, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
In accordance with its rules of procedure, at its opening meeting, the
Conference "shall adopt its agenda for the year at the beginning of the
session.
The Conference shall take into account the recommendations made to it by
the United Nations General Assembly, the proposals by its Members, and
decisions of the Conference."
The items on the agenda of the Conference in 2012 will discuss cessation of
the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament; prevention of nuclear war,
including all related matters; prevention of an arms race in outer space;
international arrangements to assure non-nuclear weapon states against the use
or threat of use of nuclear weapons; new types of weapons of mass destruction
and new systems of such weapons, radiological weapons; comprehensive programme
of disarmament; transparency in armaments; and consideration and adoption of
the annual report and any other report, as appropriate, to the General
Assembly of the United Nations.
The Conference on Disarmament, established in 1979 as the single
multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, was
a result of the first Special Session on Disarmament of the United Nations
General Assembly held in 1978. (end)
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