News


20 May 1998


Press Release
DCF/334


KAZAKHSTAN FOREIGN MINISTER ADDRESSES DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE, CALLING FOR 'CUT-OFF' NEGOTIATIONS

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(Reissued as received.)
 

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MARKKU REIMAA (Finland)
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The ad hoc committee on the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS) had come close in 1994 to an agreement on starting negotiations on confidence-building measure, he continued. The PAROS was of importance because there was no multilateral agreement banning the deployment of weapons other than weapons of mass destruction in outer space. It was Finland's view that one should look at the material produced by the ad hoc committee a few years ago. It seemed that confidence-building and transparency measures could be appropriate steps to start with this item.