Mr. NEGROTTO CAMBIASO (Italy): Mr. President, I would first like to renew the congratulations already conveyed to you by the Secretary-General of the Italian Foreign Ministry on your assumption of the Presidency of the Conference for the current month, and to wish you all the best in the accomplishment of your important and delicate duties. I would also like to thank the members of the Ad Hoc Committee and, in particular, the group co-ordinators and the delegation of China for their collaboration and understanding, as well as Mr. Bogomolov, the staff of the Secretariat and the excellent interpreters. During the 1990 session, I was encouraged, in the attempt to find a solution, to follow a somewhat different way from the traditional one pursued in the past without any tangible results. Therefore, I have had several personal meetings, carried out in intensive informal consultations with delegations and co-ordinators, with the aim of identifying common ground and a possible satisfying solution, with the additional awareness, this year, of the coming Fourth NPT Review Conference. The results of the efforts jointly carried out by all the members of the Committee are contained in document CD/1028, which I have the pleasure of submitting today to the Conference on Disarmament for approval. Unfortunately, neither the efforts deployed in informal conversations nor subsequent discussions undertaken within the Committee have led to the identification of a common approach satisfactory to all. CD/PV.572 11 (Mr, Negrotto Cambiaso. Italy) Nevertheless, it was possible to identify common views - as pointed out in part IV of the report entitled "Conclusions and Recommendations" - on the importance of the many positive political changes under way. These are expected to have a bearing on the search for a common approach on the substance of negative assurances. Against the aforementioned background the Ad Hoc Committee recommends 
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