days about the call for a meeting of the Conference at ministerial level, to be held at the beginning of our next session and designed to provide negotiations with the necessary impetus for the final stage, would indeed meet our full expectations. We are therefore ready to examine any proposal, irrespective of its procedural implications, likely to provide us with a clear scenario for our aims. Concluding on this point, I would like to stress that the Conference on Disarmament has an enormous achievement at hand. I do not think it would be purely rhetorical to say that a chemical-weapons ban would be an accomplishment without any comparable term of reference in the history of disarmament negotiations. It would represent the first agreement of its kind, one of universal appeal and with far-reaching provisions about international co-operation. We trust that the conclusion of the chemical-weapons ban will inject new dynamism in multilateral disarmament, one which this body will be able to profit from, taking stock of positive as well as negative experiences. I would now briefly turn to the question of the prevention of an arms race in outer space. It is a subject which Italy has always considered of great importance and which presents us with a problem of interrelationships between its bilateral aspects, as represented by the Soviet-American negotiations, and the growing expectations felt by the international community for involvement in the comprehension of the great events occurring beyond our planet. We acknowledge the reality in the negotiations between the two major "users" of outer space. They could facilitate greater stability and co-operation in the interests of all. CD/PV.571 7 (Mr, Bottai. Italy) We also consider very valuable all the efforts being made by the Conference on Disarmament that are aimed at strengthening the multilateral 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a diplomatic statement discussing international disarmament and arms control, specifically the ban on chemical weapons and the prevention of an arms race in outer space. The language used is formal and diplomatic, indicating that it is a statement made by a representative of a country in a international conference. The text does not mention economic development, natural resources, agriculture, forestry, fishing, industry, transport, communication, health, education, employment, humanitarian aid, or culture, but rather focuses on international relations and disarmament.

**Category**
International relations, Science and technology