CD Fails to Gain Consensus

August 31, 2009 at 10:27 am | Posted in Space Law | Leave a comment

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

The Conference on Disarmament, after adopting a program of work earlier this year, failed to gain consensus on procedural matters implementing that program of work. According to Reuters:

Arms negotiators failed to clear the way on Monday for the start of talks this year on nuclear disarmament as Pakistan said its security interests had not been respected. . . .

. . . “The window of opportunity for this year is closing today,” Austrian Ambassador Christian Strohal, the current president of the conference, told the 65-member forum.

“It is with serious regret that I have to inform the conference that consensus …. still eludes us.” . . .