We therefore propose that the Conference begin its next session in January 1991 by meeting at the ministerial level to examine the status of the negotiations at that time, identify the approaches needed to complete them, set a relatively short time-limit and give the corresponding instructions to delegations. The latter would then get down to work with the conclusion of a final agreement clearly in mind and would negotiate under the ministers' direct control. Then, when the time came, the ministers would return to Geneva to settle the final outstanding points requiring a decision at their level and to sign the final text of the convention. It goes without saying that these two ministerial meetings, which would conform in all respects with the working conditions and procedures peculiar to the Conference on Disarmament, would be open to all the countries wishing to participate in the final phase of the work as non-member States. There must be no political or material limit that could be used against a country wishing to contribute to the negotiations, as was explicitly agreed on the occasion of the Paris Conference, and the experience of the past two years has shown how the Conference has been able to accept a growing number of non-member countries. I know that it has been proposed, with a comparable concern for universality, that a meeting of this kind should be held in the context of the United Nations. But the negotiations cannot be re-opened elsewhere, and still less split into twoj that would, in our view, be to ensure failure. It should also be recalled that the Conference on Disarmament is responsible for carrying these negotiations through to the end and the United Nations General Assembly does not fail to remind it of that each year. Lastly, a 
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