Action for the remaining half of the Second Disarmament Decade. Concentrating on practical measures, the programme aims at laying the ground work for the creation of confidence and trust vital to achieving disarmament agreements. With an annual budget of $1 million, the Departme nt of External Affairs, Verification Research Division, is concentrating on several key issues relating to a comprehensive test ban, a global chemical weapons convention, and the prevention of an arms race in outer space. We have noted that both the Final Declaration of the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament and the Declaration of the Second Disarmament Decade have recognized that arms control and disarmament agreements must provide for adequate measures of verification. some allege that verification is a smokescreen to prevent agreement, but that is not Canada's view. We believe that verification is indispensab le, because meaningful arms control agreements that will endure cannot be negotiated on the basis of trust alone. JSM/plj A/C.l/40/PV .S 6 (Mr. Roche, Canada) To advance work on the verification of a comprehensive test ban, Canada will expand seismic research by upgrading our large seismic facility in Yellowknife , in northern Canada. we are also continuing work designed to differen tiate between small earthquakes and underground nuclear tests. We have participated substantially in the International Seismic Data Exchange . In addition to the support negotiations on a global chemical weapons ban, Canada has lent its expertise to investigating allegations of chemical weapons use and will shortly present to the United Nations a manual of procedures for use in such investigations . Canada has also undertaken specialized research on a potable kit for the detection, identification and quantification of certain mycotoxins. During its past session , the Conference on Disarmament's progress towards concluding a chemical weapons convention was minimal. Hence call upon all members 
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