Can you believe this!
I can see the conference offerings...
Hide your SCUDS the easy way......
Tunneling for beginners......
Why not hide weapons among playground equipment...
Perhaps Hans Blix can attend and learn a thing or two.
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Iraq to chair Conference on Disarmament
U.N.-related body's rotating presidency falls to Baghdad this spring
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Posted: January 27, 2003
10:18 p.m. Eastern
By Art Moore
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Later this year, the U.N.-established Conference on Disarmament will seat a new president: Iraq.
The nation under scrutiny by the world body for weapons of mass destruction will have control – for nearly four weeks – of the agenda of a committee established in 1979 as "the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community."
The conference was formed as a result of the United Nations General Assembly's first Special Session on Disarmament, held in 1978.
U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq, at first, was unaware that Iraq's turn was coming up. After further inquiry, however, he found that Baghdad will serve as chair, beginning at the end of May, according to a rotating schedule of the 75 member nations done in alphabetical order.
Haq said the role of conference presidency is a matter of "organizing the work and setting the agenda."
Does Iraq's defiance of U.N. disarmament resolutions damage the group's credibility?
"All the members at some point sit briefly as the chair of its work," Haq replied. "And that includes countries that are party to disarmament treaties and those that aren't."
The chair holds the position for half of each session. There are three sessions scheduled for this year. India and Indonesia each have a turn at the presidency during the current session, which runs from Jan. 21 through March 20.
Iran and Iraq are slated for the top spot during the May 12-June 27 session, and Ireland and Israel are scheduled for the final July 20-Sept. 10 meetings.
According to the conference's rules of procedure, the president, in addition to the "normal functions of a presiding officer," shall "in full consultation with the conference and under its authority, represent it in its relations with states, with the General Assembly and other organs of the United Nations and with other international organizations."
The rules say that when the conference is not in session, the functions of the president are carried out by the representative of the member state that presided over the previous meeting. That means Iraq will carry on its role from the end of May until July 20.
I can see the conference offerings...
Hide your SCUDS the easy way......
Tunneling for beginners......
Why not hide weapons among playground equipment...
Perhaps Hans Blix can attend and learn a thing or two.
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Iraq to chair Conference on Disarmament
U.N.-related body's rotating presidency falls to Baghdad this spring
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: January 27, 2003
10:18 p.m. Eastern
By Art Moore
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Later this year, the U.N.-established Conference on Disarmament will seat a new president: Iraq.
The nation under scrutiny by the world body for weapons of mass destruction will have control – for nearly four weeks – of the agenda of a committee established in 1979 as "the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community."
The conference was formed as a result of the United Nations General Assembly's first Special Session on Disarmament, held in 1978.
U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq, at first, was unaware that Iraq's turn was coming up. After further inquiry, however, he found that Baghdad will serve as chair, beginning at the end of May, according to a rotating schedule of the 75 member nations done in alphabetical order.
Haq said the role of conference presidency is a matter of "organizing the work and setting the agenda."
Does Iraq's defiance of U.N. disarmament resolutions damage the group's credibility?
"All the members at some point sit briefly as the chair of its work," Haq replied. "And that includes countries that are party to disarmament treaties and those that aren't."
The chair holds the position for half of each session. There are three sessions scheduled for this year. India and Indonesia each have a turn at the presidency during the current session, which runs from Jan. 21 through March 20.
Iran and Iraq are slated for the top spot during the May 12-June 27 session, and Ireland and Israel are scheduled for the final July 20-Sept. 10 meetings.
According to the conference's rules of procedure, the president, in addition to the "normal functions of a presiding officer," shall "in full consultation with the conference and under its authority, represent it in its relations with states, with the General Assembly and other organs of the United Nations and with other international organizations."
The rules say that when the conference is not in session, the functions of the president are carried out by the representative of the member state that presided over the previous meeting. That means Iraq will carry on its role from the end of May until July 20.
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