requested the Secretary-General to circulate to the States parties to the Convention not later than four months prior to the convening of the Third Review Conference a report on the implementation of the confidence-building measures agreed upon by the A&-&&G Meeting of Scientific and Technical E8perts from States parties) welcomed the fact that there were more than one hundred States parties to the Convention, including all the permanent members of the Security Council, and that since the holding of the Second Review Conference four more States had forwarded their instruments of ratification of the Convention, two more States had declared their accession to the Convention and one State had withdrawn its reservations to itt and called upon all States that had not ratified or acceded to the Convention to do 80 without delay, thus contributing to the achievement of universal adherence to the Convention and to the strengthening of international confidence (resolution 441115 C). Document I Report of the Conference on Disarmament, Supplement lo. 21 (A/45/27). A/45/100 English Page 170 58. 5 (a) (b) (cl (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k! (1) (ml (n) ive SsDtS and The item entitled “General and complete disarmemeat” was included in the agenda of the fourteenth session of the General Assembly, in 1959, at the request of the Uaion of Soviet Socialist Republics (A/4218). It has since been placed on the agenda of every session. At its sixteenth session, the General Assembly welcomed a joint statement of agreed principles for disarmament negotiations, which had been submitted to it by the Soviet Union and the United States of America1 endorsed the agreement that had been reached on the composition of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament: and recommended that the Committee should undertake negotiations with a view to 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international relations, specifically the implementation of disarmament measures and the progress of the Convention on Disarmament. It mentions the Conference on Disarmament, the General Assembly, and the participation of various countries. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting that it is a report or resolution from a United Nations meeting.

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