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Related issues, including information and outreach
community. It reiterated that the NPT remained the cornerstone of the
global non-proliferation regime. The EU also remained committed to the
full implementation of the understandings reached at the 1995 NPT Review
Conference concerning the establishment of a zone free of weapons of mass
destruction and their delivery means in the Middle East.
The EU underlined the need to devote adequate attention to conventional
weapons, including the full implementation of the United Nations Programme
of Action34 against the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, as it had
done during the current three-year cycle in the UNDC. It also stressed that
transparency in military matters was a major confidence-building measure
and that it remained committed to the Mine Ban Convention. 35 In addition,
the EU supported the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and the
United Nations Standardized Instrument for Reporting Military Expenditures,
as well as strong international responses to the humanitarian problems caused
by cluster munitions.
Indonesia, on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), expressed
concern over the slow progress in nuclear disarmament and urged particularly
the nuclear-weapon States to fulfil their disarmament and non-proliferation
pledges and obligations simultaneously in all their aspects. 36 The NAM
maintained that the CD was the only multilateral negotiating body on
disarmament, and reiterated its position for a balanced and comprehensive
programme of work and early negotiations in the CD on a phased programme
for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons within a specified time
frame. Pending the total elimination of nuclear weapons, the NAM also called
for vigorous efforts for the early conclusion of a universal, unconditional and
legally binding instrument on security assurances to all non-nuclear-weapon
States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. In addition,
it reaffirmed the “inalienable right of developing countries to develop
research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without
discrimination”.
The NAM referred to its draft proposal to Working Group I of the
UNDC on achieving universal adherence to the Comprehensive Nuclear-
Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) 37 and it also expressed deep concern that a fourth
34 The full title is Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade
in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. A/CONF.192/15. Available from
http://www.poa-iss.org/poa/poa.aspx (accessed 16 May 2012).
35 The treaty’s full title is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. The text
and status of adherence are available from http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/ (accessed
7 May 2012).
36 A/CN.10/PV.310. See also the summarized version of statements by delegations in the
press release of the Department for Public Information, New York, 4 April 2011, available
from http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2011/dc3288.doc.htm (accessed 17 May 2012).
37 The text and status of adherence are available from http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/
(accessed 7 May 2012).
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