Cooperation in the ConferenceonDisarmamenton new steps in this area remains essential since that body's membership includes most of the major producers and exporters of anti-personnel land mines.
At the same time, the United States will continue other efforts to address the problem of land mines, including our work to establish step-by-step negotiations toward a global ban in the ConferenceonDisarmament.
Another of the 44 nations -- India -- has sought to block the CTBT at every step: vetoing it in the ConferenceonDisarmament so that it could not be submitted as a Conference document.
We know that completing a treaty that will ban the production of fissile material will not be quick or easy - but the ConferenceonDisarmament must resume its work on this treaty as soon as possible.
In 1984, he personally introduced at the ConferenceonDisarmament in Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion and submitted despite the fact that extensive work on its verification aspects remained to be done.