chance of progress we should be able to concentrate our efforts on this particular problem and to pursue them as long as necessary and desirable. Opportunities and the willingness to make progress should dictate the pace and the rhythm of our work, not a pattern of negotiations established in other circumstances or the time frames of routine openings and closings of sessions. In this very context the legitimate question arises of how to avoid protracted discussions on the establishment of subsidiary bodies repeated at the same time every year. One wonders whether this question could not be easily and effectively solved by drawing up a general mandate enabling each body to continue its work until its task has been accomplished. It seems to our delegation that we should be more flexible in determining the goals of our endeavours and ways and means of achieving them which better correspond to challenges and possibilities. My delegation has already presented some ideas related to this dilemma; let me just refer to them very briefly. Undoubtedly, the elaboration of new agreements placing legal obligations upon States is and should remain the principal task of this Conference. This basis approach, in the opinion of my delegation, need not, however, prevent the Conference from undertaking other measures, particularly in circumstances where the stage of negotiations or other considerations make them advisable and the only ones feasible. In fact, different situations may require different approaches and responses. Why should we not envisage, for example, a kind of intermediate arrangement or protocol of understanding or joint recommendations or declarations on confidence-building and security-building measures? These documents, with the character of political obligations rather than fully-fledged legal instruments, could be properly recorded in our annual reports. CD/PV.548 25 (Mr, Sujka. Poland ) We believe that this more flexible approach to the possible results of 
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