But in the context of the broad ongoing drive to strengthen stability and security in Europe, we should not neglect the potential of the Vienna CSBM negotiations. Confidence-building is an indispensable complement to disarmament and can make a vital contribution to the consolidation of the new security structure emerging in Europe. The recent CSBM seminar in Vienna on security concepts and military doctrines represents a pioneering contribution to enhanced transparency in the military sphere. Hopefully, the "open skies" negotiations will also lead to an agreement which will add to the security of all participating States. We must not permit ourselves to be distracted from the task of achieving early agreement on a CFE treaty. Such agreement will be an important step towards a stable and lasting security order for Europe; however, it will not solve all of the continent's security problems. For this reason Norway believes that there must be no break in the conventional arms control process following a first agreement. In a second negotiating phase we envisage CD/PV.548 4 (Mr, Bondevik. Norway ) further reductions as well as the inclusion of new equipment categories. The general objective should be to make military structures in all participating States defensive in character, through enhanced transparency and predictability and through a reconsideration of military doctrines. I have spoken at some length about our European experience, particularly in the light of the CSCE process, and I have done so in the belief that this is also relevant to our global disarmament efforts. This session of the Conference on Disarmament is particularly focused on the negotiations on a chemical weapons convention. We should now be ready to fulfil our commitment from last year's Paris Conference to intensify negotiations with a view to finalizing a global, comprehensive and effectively verifiable ban on chemical weapons at the earliest date.
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