The Ambassador Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Omar Zniber, reaffirmed on Tuesday the Kingdom’s commitment to contributing to the active and effective relaunch of the Conference on Disarmament (CD).
“We cannot afford to see this body depart from the substance characterizing its functioning when it was created, and take responsibility for its continued failure,” said Zniber at the opening of the CD session in Geneva.
For the Moroccan diplomat, “if this conjuncture further complicates the situation, we should not see it as a reason not to advance further in the debates and overcome the political divisions that may affect the international security climate”.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the multiplication and deepening of humanitarian crises which are already favored by the climate of instability triggered by conflicts and threats to international peace and security. Now is the high time to strengthen our body and its activities by returning to its original mandate and negotiating binding multilateral treaties, in the face of any real threat,” he pointed out.
He recalled, in this regard, the statements made by the Moroccan delegation last year as well as in the beginning of 2020, which included ideas and concrete proposals on the methodology to be followed for the adoption of a balanced work program adapted to the need to urgently negotiate the essential issues of nuclear disarmament, including the ban on the production and storage of fissile material, the protection of outer space and arms race.
“Disarmament is one of the raison d’être of the United Nations. A Real and effective disarmament which is proportionate to peace and security worldwide can only achieve its objectives if it is promoted at the multilateral level, and this is why we call on all the members of the Conference to show the necessary flexibility so that discussions in good faith would lead us towards the revival of concrete work and the definition of common denominators for negotiations more than ever urgent in the context of the Conference on Disarmament,” the diplomat added.
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