Head of Tax Treaty Negotiations, Inland Revenue.

A broad mandate will not prejudice anyone apos s position in the negotiations and will permit those negotiations to begin at once.

But of course he did not himself decide on the negotiating mandate.

The Conference on Disarmament had been given a specific negotiating mandate by the 2000 Review Conference, which it has unfortunately failed to realize, due to continued gridlock over a programme of work.

The Conference on Disarmament had been given a specific mandate by the last Review Conference, which it has completely failed to realize.

They are not tied by the mandate of the Conference on Disarmament.

Negotiations must be accelerated in order to take final action on the Berlin Mandate.

However, our priority is to start negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament without preconditions, rather than prolonging discussions on the mandate.

During its recent presidency of the Conference in the beginning of 2005, the Netherlands launched ideas to promote consensus on a mandate for such negotiations.

We should then be able, on an urgent basis, to decide on an acceptable mandate as a framework for negotiations.

In our view it is crucial that any negotiating mandate agreed upon should stipulate a clear obligation to reach a total ban.

5. In the Conference on Disarmament, which is the only multilateral negotiating forum on disarmament, the Group of 21 has insisted on the need for establishing an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament with a negotiating mandate.

I am certain that in 2006, the shared determination of all States will make it possible for the Conference on Disarmament to fulfil its mandate to negotiate.

Key countries should assume active leadership to accelerate the pace of the ongoing negotiations.

Today, more than ever, this multilateral negotiating body has an urgent task to undertake.

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But the Conference still faces the demanding task of finding ways to move forward.

The Conference on Disarmament has been given an important mandate by the United Nations in this framework.

Our work programmes must entail the establishment of ad hoc groups with negotiating mandates.

3. States have a duty to negotiate in good faith.

After a few years of intense negotiations on the CTBT, the Conference on Disarmament is facing the difficult task of determining its future course.

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In the meantime the Conference should immediately, on the basis of the Shannon mandate, get down to negotiations on the fissile material cut off convention.

Our mandate is to negotiate instruments which can strengthen international peace and security.

It has repeatedly called for the establishment of an ad hoc group with a negotiating mandate for this purpose.

Negotiations on maritime transport had been suspended until the start of the new round of services negotiations.

On 1 January 2006, Poland will take over the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

Yet when we have turned to the task of creating our negotiation mechanisms, we have been prevented from doing so.

It called upon all other delegations to support UNRWA in carrying out its work, without complicating the peace talks or predetermining their outcome.

The reforms should be aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the Organization in implementing the legislative mandates determined by Member States in a transparent and responsible negotiating process.

The other members of the Conference have appointed specialized staff members who represent them in the Conference.

The Conference on Disarmament is facing new tasks and challenges, in both nuclear and conventional disarmament.

The review and evaluation of progress in negotiations pursuant to paragraph 15 of the Negotiating Guidelines allow for regular reporting of Members to the Council for Trade in Services (CTS) on the progress in the negotiations, including bilateral negotiations.

Should peace talks progress, the Agency may be asked to assume new temporary tasks as required by a peace settlement.

In the ongoing GATS negotiations and in the current WTO accession negotiations, discussion on audiovisual services has emerged in the area of distribution services in connection with distribution licensing of rights.

There is no point in this Conference in urging the Conference on Disarmament to take action if some States party to the Treaty then proceed to block the Conference on Disarmament from fulfilling these assignments.

I have the honour to forward to you a message from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament in connection with the accession of a representative of the Russian Federation to the post of President of the CD.

I congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament.

Since then, the Conference has not been able to launch negotiations on any subject.

The consequence was that, between the time the suggestion was made to start negotiations on services and the actual beginning of the negotiations, at least four years were wasted in discussions about the scope of those negotiations.

The CD needs to get back into the business of negotiating disarmament treaties and agreements.

In 1995, by the so called Shannon mandate, the Conference on Disarmament was requested to start negotiation on a verifiable fissile material cut off treaty in the context of an ad hoc committee.

It is incumbent upon the CD, as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating body, to discharge its responsibilities in this regard.