(DIP) TURKEY TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT.ANKARA, Jun 3, 2009 (TUR) -- Turkey will continue to support efforts that aim to boost the Conference on Disarmament's contributions to global peace and stability. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said that "the Conference on Disarmament Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral disarmament negotiating forum. Established in 1979, the Conference succeeded the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament (1960), the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament (1962-68) and the Conference of the Committee on has approved its work program on 29 May 2009, in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , after a deadlock of more than 10 years. In overcoming the deadlock, we pay special tribute to the Algerian Presidency of the Conference for their contributions to the process. Turkey, a member of the Conference on Disarmament since 1996, during her Presidency in February 2008, for a period of four weeks, contributed substantively to the process". "The Conference on Disarmament, which paved the way to the global adoption of arms control and armaments efforts, has played a leading role during the negotiations and agreement on important international instruments, such as the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) officially Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons International agreement intended to prevent the spread of nuclear technology. It was signed by the U.S. , Biological Weapons Convention For the airport with this IATA location identifier, see . The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (usually referred to as the , Chemical Weapons Convention Noun 1. Chemical Weapons Convention - a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. We hope that overcoming the deadlock in the Conference, will accelerate the ongoing work in the fields of disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation," the MFA said. "Considering arms control and disarmament One of the major efforts to preserve international peace and security in the twenty-first century has been to control or limit the number of weapons and the ways in which weapons can be used. Two different means to achieve this goal have been disarmament and arms control. as fundamental aspects of its national security policy, Turkey will continue to support efforts that will increase the Conference's contributions to global peace and stability," the MFA also said. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE) |
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