was very well stated by Ambassador Marin, we did no more than perpetuate a ritual, by means of which we perform the function of gathering ideas and proposals - most of them very useful and with great potential for being developed - without facing up to the essential decision related to this problem, which is to start substantive work on a legally binding convention that will ban all types of weapons from outer space. Arguments such as the need to carry out further analysis of the proposals that we have accumulated over the past five years do nothing but sidestep the question of the urgency with which most of the participants in this Conference view the need to refine the legal regime applicable to outer space. Several of the distinguished speakers who have taken the floor in this forum over the past weeks have spoken to us about the frenzy of change that is taking place on the international political scene. This "revolution of ’89", as some call it, may yet produce tangible results in various sectors of disarmament. We are pleased that in areas such as the limitation of strategic weapons and nuclear tests, or the reduction of troops and chemical stockpiles, we can definitely say we are making progress. Of course we need to have a much more organic and complete link between these achievements and the work of this Conference. Nevertheless, we cannot deny their contribution to CD/PV.544 7 (Mr. Gutierrez, Peru) international detente. Yet at the same time that we see all this progress being made, we cannot refrain from noting that in outer space, where the future impact of international co-operation could be very promising, we are experiencing growing militarization that in a short time could deteriorate into an arms race which, in a different environment, would revive phases of 
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