United Nations: Member nations of the world body have been urged to make progress on the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) as the long impasse on the issue has plagued the world body’s function.
The appeal came from UN General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser.
“Indeed, the failure of the CD in making substantive progress for well over a decade has undoubtedly put the credibility of this crucially important body at a high risk,” Al-Nasser said yesterday in his remarks to the opening of the second part of the Conference’s 2012 session in Geneva.
It has been plagued in recent years by an inability to overcome differences among its members and start its substantive work towards advancing disarmament goals.(UNI)
