could be served by a substantive consideration of the item and that the most effective assurance of security against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is nuclear disarmament and prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons. In addition, some delegations recalled the statements of the Group of 21, contained in documents CD/280 and CD/407 and said that until the nuclear-weapon States were ready to change their positions, there would be no prospects of reaching agreements on effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons and that further negotiations in the Ad Hoc Committee on this item were unlikely to be fruitful so long as the nuclear-weapon States do not exhibit a genuine political will to reach a satisfactory agreement. Other delegations said that in their view the earlier re-establishment- of an Ad Hoc Committee on the subject might have permitted some progress. IV. Conclusions and Recommendations 8. Against the afore-mentioned background the Ad Hoc Committee recommends to the Conference on Disarmament that ways and means should continue to be explored to overcome the difficulties encountered in its work in carrying out negotiations on the question of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear- weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. The Ad Hoc Committee generally agreed that the Conference on Disarmament should keep this item under active consideration at the 1986 session taking into account the mandate of the Ad Hoc Committee as well as present and future relevant recommendations of the General Assembly.
**Analysis**
The text discusses the topic of nuclear disarmament and the establishment of international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon states against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting that the text is related to international relations and global security. The text also mentions the Conference on Disarmament and the General Assembly, which are international organizations, further supporting the hypothesis that the category is related to international relations.

**Category**
International relations