Breaking the Deadlock: The Conference on Disarmament between Continuation, Dissolution and Renewal
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disarmament, arms control, non-proliferation, security, United Nations, General AssemblyAbstract
The author explores the origins, development and structure of the Conference on Disarmament. He also discusses the challenges and problems this body faces, which have brought it from being a successful negotiating mechanism, which had produced texts of a number of important disarmament treaties, to remaining deadlocked for more than two decades. The author outlines the possible options for reviving the Conference, ranging from modest changes, to imposing more substantive transformation, but also referring to possible consequences of disbanding the body, which some studies argue for. The author also offers his opinion on the feasibility of some of these proposals.
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