compendium ofCDVerbatim Records andworking papersonradiological weapons::"4.Attheirrequest, therepresentatives ofthefollowing Statesnotmembers oftheConference onDisarmament participated intheworkofthe !2:~Committee: Finland, Norway, Portugal, SpainandSwitzerland. "5.Incarrying outitsmandate, theAdHocCommittee tookintoaccount paragraph 76oftheFinalDocument ofthefirstspecial session ofthe UnitedNations General Assembly devoted todisarmament. Italsotookinto consideration therelevant recommendations oftheUnitedNations Disarmament Commission, inparticular thoseadoptedinconnection withtheSecond::Disarmament Decadein1980. Inaddition tovarious resolutions adopted bythe General Assembly onthesubjectatitsprevious sessions, theAdHocCommittee tookintoaccountinparticular resolution 39/151 JoftheGeneral Assembly of 17December 1984. Paragraphs 1and2ofthatresolution readasfollows: "I.TakesnoteofthatpartofthereportoftheConference onDisarmament thatdealswiththequestion ofradiological weapons, inparticular the reportofthe.AdHocCommi.tteeonRadiological Weapons andits recommendation- that,inviewofthefactthattheCommi.ttee'smandata was notfulfilled, -theConference onDisarmament shouldre-establish the AdHocCommi.tteeonRadiological Weaponsatthebeginning ofits 1985session; 116.Inadd!tiontothedocuments ofprevious sessions, theAdHocCommittee had beforeitthefollo'Wing Ilewdocuments forcor!sideration~ ---------=-,-CD/594, dated12June1985,submitted byagroupofSocialist States, entitled"Prohibition ofradiological weapons andprohibition ofattacks against nuclearfacilities" -CD/RW/WP.59, d~ted19June1985,entitled "Programme ofWorkofthe AdHocCommi.tteeonRadiological Weapons" -CD/RW/wp.60, dated19June1985,entitled "Time-table" -CD/RW/WP.6l, dated2July1985,submitted byChina,entitled "SomeViews ontheScopeofNuclearFadlities" -CDjRW/wp.62, dated16July1985,submitted byChina,entitled "Some Opinions ontheDefinition andCriterion ofRadiological Weaponsll .'CD/RW/wp.63 andRev.1,dated16Julyand5August1985,submitted bythe Chairman, entitled "Chairman's Suggestions forDraftElements onScope, DefinitionsandCriteria" -CD/RW/WP.64 andRev.1,dated1and6August 1985submitted bythe Chairman, entitled "Chairman's Suggestions foranElement on'Peaceful Uses'" -CD/:~.;J1l? 65andRev.1,dated8and12August1985,submitted bythe Chairman, entitled "Chairman's Suggestions foranElement on'Nuclear Disarmament'" -CD/RW/WP. 66,dated8August1985,entitled ''DraftReportofthe AdHocCommi.tteeonRadiological Weapons" -CD/RW/WP. 67,dated12August1985,submitted bytheChairman, entitled "Chairman's Suggestions forDraftElements ofanAnnexrelating to ArticleIICb)". "Ill. WORKDURING THE1985SESSION "1.Atits2ndmeeting on14June,theAdHocCommi.tteedecidedatthe suggestion oftheChairman, toproceed onthebasisofa"unitary" approach to the'twomajorquestions l:?~foreit,i.e.theprohibition ofradiological weapons inthe"traditional" senseandtheprohibitiohofattacks against nuclear facilities. Accordingly, itagreedtoallocate equaltimefortheconsideration .ofbothquestions without, however, procedurally dividing theworkofthe Committeeintotwoseparate "tracksllorgivingpriority toeitherofthem.It further agreedthatthisdecision waswithout prejudice to:thefinaJ.positions ofdelegations ona.treatyortreaties asSUCh;the"link"between theabovetwo questions; delegations' position ontheappropriate mannerof~ealing withthem. "8.Atits3rdmeeting, on18June,theAdHocCommittee adopted thefollowing programme ofworkforits1985session: "Within thequestions oftheprohibition ofradiological weaponl;iinthe 'traditional' senseandtheprohibition ofattacks against nuclearfacilitiea, -129t o "1 "I de r .,[ to de de of tI( or me r.u ,,(, atthefollowing problems shouldbediscussed without prejudging thefinalposition ofdelegations asregards the1I1ink"between thetwo aSr'\~ctsoftheissuea -Definitions andCriteria -Scope -Peaceful uses -Cessation ofthenuclear armsraceandnuclear disarmament -Compliance andverification". "9.TheChairman submitted anumberofsuggestions fordraft·treatyelements whichprovided thebasisfordiscussion duringthemeetings ofthe AdRocCommittee andresulted inthecompila.tion ofdraftprovisions, undertaken bytheChairman, toreflect thestateofdeliberations onthetwomajorquestions beforetheAdHocCommittee. Thiscompilation iscontained intheAnnextoth.is report. Itisunderstood thattheAnnexisnotbinding on~delegation.
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