unanimously recognized. It is for this reason that we are following with interest and supporting the efforts to improve the activities and enhance the efficiency of the Conference in Geneva so that it can fully meet the legitimate expectations of the international community in keeping with the mandate entrusted to this negotiating body with a universal vocation. This is particularly so in the present situation, where rapid and positive transformations and developments under way in Europe, and in other parts of the world too, need to be reflected as fully and as soon as possible in the work and, above all, the results of the Conference on Disarmament. The important re-thinking of strategic and military concepts and doctrines that is now under way, the dialogue between the United States and the USSR in the field of disarmament, the results to date and the prospects for the sustained pursuit of this process, the justified hopes regarding the Vienna negotiations on the reduction of conventional weapons in Europe, the multiplication and diversification of the measures aimed at increasing confidence and security, the efforts to reduce tension in various parts of the world and to eliminate hot-beds of conflict, the ever more frequent and ever more successful recourse to the machinery of the United Nations, including the prerogatives of the Secretary-General, are all factors which mark the present international climate, a climate more favourable than ever now for international action in the field of disarmament, for the activities of the Conference on Disarmament. There is unanimous recognition of the efforts made in your Conference to negotiate a universal convention on the prohibition and elimination of chemical weapons. Along with the pursuit of, and involvement in the negotiating process, Romania has this year - as have 
**Analysis**
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