the negotiation of the convention. The two most recent of these were submitted during the 1985 session of the Conference. The first, on the verification of non-production of chemical weapons , completed a series of papers on ways to ensure that civil chemica l industry is not misused for the manufacture of chemical weapons. The second contained detailed proposals for the organization which will be needed to implement a chemical-weapons convention. We hope that these proposals will contribute to agreement on an effective convention and in particular to the essential requirement of verification, to give assurance to each party of compliance by other parties with their obligations to destroy all their chemical weapons, and never to make them again. During the summer session of the Conference on Disarmament useful progress was made in the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons, notably on the destruction of existing chemical weapons and on the categorization of compounds for the purpose of establishing an effective regime to prevent the diversion of material from the civil chemical industry to the manufacture of chemical weapons. We regretted therefore that it was not possible to continue the negotiations after the end of the session of the Conference on Disarmament. We welcome, however, the continuation of consultations by the Chairman of the Committee, Ambassador Turbanski of Poland, in preparation for a further session of the AUN/cw A/C.l/40/PV.ll 38 (Mr. Cromartie, United Kingdom) Committee in January~ and I would like to pay a tribute to the work that he has done and continues to do. I am very grateful to the Conference on Disarmament for the confidence they have reposed in me by appointing me as the Chairman of its Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons for the 1986 session. My delegation and I will spare no effort to 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international agreements and negotiations related to chemical weapons, with a focus on the verification and destruction of existing stockpiles. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting that the text is related to international relations and diplomacy. The text also mentions the Conference on Disarmament and the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons, which further supports the idea that the text is related to international agreements and negotiations.

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