{"id":90774,"date":"2019-06-26T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T23:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90774"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T23:16:51","slug":"sri-lanka-for-balanced-and-comprehensive-disarmament-sri-lankas-envoy-in-geneva-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/26\/sri-lanka-for-balanced-and-comprehensive-disarmament-sri-lankas-envoy-in-geneva-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka for balanced and comprehensive disarmament, Sri Lanka\u2019s envoy in Geneva says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The\ninternational and regional strategic landscapes becoming increasingly\nconstrained, only accentuates the need for the Conference on Disarmament (CD)\nto get down to its substantive task of negotiating appropriate disarmament\nframeworks, said Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez speaking at the CD Plenary Session in\nGeneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking\nfurther, Sri Lanka&#8217;s envoy called for balanced and comprehensive disarmament,\nthat should be realized through a step by step approach, underpinned by the\nadoption of legally binding frameworks and through addressing existing legal\ngaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nattach priority to full compliance with, and effective promotion of, the\nimplementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)\nwithout further delay, support the preservation of all existing disarmament\narchitecture, remain committed to achieving a legally binding instrument on\nPrevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS), and promote the Biological\nWeapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention and call for their\neffective and non-discriminatory implementation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outlining\nSri Lanka\u2019s position on arms control, Ambassador Azeez stressed, Sri Lanka\nsupports the effective implementation of the International Convention for the\nSuppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, calls for practical steps towards\nestablishing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)-free zones particularly in\nregions where such zones are not in place, remains committed for negotiations\non a legally binding instrument on Negative Security Assurances, and recognizes\nthe importance of identifying and negotiating on new and emerging issues including\nLethal Autonomous Weapons Systems\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is\nrecalled that after 22 years of stalemate in negotiations, the CD arrived at a\ndecision in 2018 under Sri Lanka\u2019s Presidency, to work through an informal\nprocess towards evolving a programme of work. The momentum, however, slackened\nin the current year due to competing strategic security priorities of mostly\nnuclear weapons states. In his address, Ambassador Azeez expressed Sri Lanka\u2019s\ncontinuous support for efforts by the CD and its Presidency towards building\nconsensus on a Programme of Work that would facilitate serious and committed\nnegotiations on core disarmament related issues on the agenda of the\nConference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva The international and regional strategic landscapes becoming increasingly constrained, only accentuates the need for the Conference on Disarmament (CD) to get down to its substantive task of negotiating appropriate disarmament frameworks, said Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez speaking at the CD Plenary Session in Geneva. Speaking further, Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}