negotiations and a guarantee for large-scale accession to the future convention on chemical weapons. As my delegation stated at the Paris Conference, Senegal has no chemical weapons and has no intention of acquiring any. So far as it is able, Senegal wishes to make its own modest contribution to the rapid conclusion of the convention on chemical weapons. It goes without saying that the chemical weapons ban is not the only focal point on the agenda of the Conference on Disarmament. The complete prohibition of nuclear testing is also a priority issue. In this very connection it is to be regretted that the Conference has still not managed to agree on a mandate for a committee to examine this issue. Nevertheless, a tribute should be paid to the vigorous efforts that Ambassador Yamada of Japan made last year to try and pin down the mandate of an ad hoc committee on nuclear tests. It is to be hoped that Ambassador Donowaki, who is continuing those efforts, will meet with success and find the way out of this impasse. The United States and the Soviet Union have made progress in virtually concluding the development of the verification régimes provided for in the treaty on the limitation of underground tests and the treaty on peaceful nuclear explosions, but it is true that we have had to wait almost 10 years since the signing of these two instruments in order to devise verification systems that show nevertheless that it is possible to guarantee compliance with a test ban. Others are proposing a conference to convert the partial nuclear test-ban Treaty into a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty by jointly involving the international community. This, of course, is an interesting approach. Even if there is no short-cut in this field, as some 
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