Pakistan has called on the international community to evolve new security consensus to achieve disarmament and non-proliferation. Permanent Representative of Pakistan Ambassador Masood Khan while addressing the 65-member Conference on Disarmament pointed at the global security structure that was "in a state of flux."
"A new security consensus should be developed to address existing and emerging global challenges," he said.
He, however, cautioned against unilateralist approaches and said, "We must promote consensus through consultation and agreement among all UN member states."
On South Asia, Ambassador Khan emphasised non-discriminatory approach and pointed out that in order to maintain the strategic deterrence there was a need to take into account the existing stocks of fissile materials.
Ambassador Khan added: "One can only presume that, overtime, fissile material stocks would be transformed into nuclear weapons."
He underlined that a fissile material treaty, whenever it was negotiated, should guarantee international and effective verification and should address the question of existing stocks.
Ambassador Masood Khan also called for legally binding assurances to non-nuclear weapon sates and intensification of the efforts to prevent an arms race in outer space. The Conference on Disarmament, which concluded its first session of the current year, has been stalled over a programme of work.
Ambassador Masood Khan urged the Conference to promote genuine multilateralism to resolve its problems and said it required states to have long-term view and to transcend their national positions. Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Manouchehr Mottaki addressed the forum.
The Conference is a 65-member body, which is the sole multilateral negotiating forum on disarmament.
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