discussion of the concept of ad hoc verification in the Ad hoc Committee. The procedures for challenge inspection will have a crucial place in an effective verification regime which would be required to deter violations, as well as to create confidence in compliance. There is general recognition that challenge inspections should be mandatory, with States having no right of refusal. However, as regards the actual conduct of the inspection, procedures still need to be evolved that will reconcile the demands of an effective inspection with the legitimate right of States to protect sensitive information and installations which are not related to chemical weapons. Moreover, the whole range of issues connected with follow-up to the submission of the inspection report still need to be addressed adequately. We believe that, once doubts have been raised publicly about compliance with the convention, the matter can no longer be regarded as one of concern only to the requesting and requested States, to be resolved by them bilaterally. Every party to the convention has an interest in seeing to it that the inspection is carried out in an effective manner and that a clear-cut finding is arrived at on compliance or otherwise. It is obvious that the Executive Council is the appropriate organ to make such a determination. My delegation fully supports the initiative taken by Ambassador Hyltenius to arrive at some textual language for article IX, and we have been actively participating in the negotiations being conducted by him. Care has, of course, to be taken that the concerns of no States are marginalized. The composition of the Executive Council continues to be a difficult question and, as we enter the final phase of our negotiations, there is an increasing need to address the matter. My delegation believes that the Executive Council should not be so large in size as to weaken its capacity to 
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