and there are glimmers of hope that the long-awaited goal will be achieved, that is, a second genuine disarmament step being taken. Therefore, we believe it is essential for the General Assembly to call upon States to foeus all their efforts on speeding up the work on the draft convention and to avoid any acts which might impede that process. A few months ago marked the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the 1925 Geneva Protocol which prohibited the use in warfare of asphyxiating, poisonous and other such gases and bacteriological weapons. This document laid the foundation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, and despite numerous attempts, for various contrived pretexts, to denigrate it, it remains unshakeable and continues to serve its purpose. Mongolia, as before, favours the further strengthening of the Protocol in its present form, and in this connection considers that the General Assembly could make an appeal to all States which would have not yet done so to accede to the Geneva Protocol on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary. The strengthening of international peace and security, and disarmament, are being damaged not only by the nuclear-arms race, the designing and the manufacture of other forms of weapons of mass destruction, but also the stockpiling of conventional weapons of tremendous destructive force. With the exception of the Convention which was concluded on the prohibition and limitation of the use of specific forms of conventional weapons, or which could be regarded as causing excessive injury or which had an indiscriminate effect, international efforts in this area have as yet not been crowned with success. AW/gmr A/C.l/40/PV.9 78 (Mr. Bayart, Mongolia) Mongolia was one of the first to sign and to ratify that Convention and the additional protocols to it. we believe that the Convention should become an 
**Analysis**
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**Category**
International relations, Humanitarian aid and relief