Press Release #060 - Mexico City
• Undersecretary Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo participated in the high-level segment of the Conference on Disarmament.
• He stressed that the Conference on Disarmament’s performance cannot stop progress towards achieving general and complete disarmament.
• Mexico is ready to promote proposals that offer real opportunities for starting disarmament negotiations, inside or outside of the Conference on Disarmament or in ad-hoc forums.
The Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ambassador Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, took part in the plenary meeting of the high-level segment of the 2011 Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva.
In his speech, he reflected on the reasons that have prevented the CD from beginning negotiations on the major issues on its agenda, including the lack of political will in the actors and the absence of suitable conditions in the forum.
He stressed that decisions must be made that end the current inertia and enable progress to be made on a disarmament agenda that cannot wait.
He reiterated the call that Mexico made in the High-Level Meeting on Revitalizing the Conference on Disarmament (September 2010), the First Committee of the UN General Assembly and other meetings of the CD, strongly urging the CD to begin negotiations, end its current inaction and set a time limit for completing the work for which it was created.
For several years, Mexico has tried to take actions that build trust and understanding on procedural issues and key issues on the Conference’s agenda.
In 2005, Mexico and other countries tried to get the United Nations General Assembly to begin arms negotiations in hopes that the Conference would adopt its work program in order to fulfill its mandate. The move was unsuccessful but Mexico is ready to try again.
Ambassador Gómez Robledo also met with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, reaffirming Mexico´s desire to cooperate with the UNHCR and discussing the Refugee and Supplementary Protection Law and other issues.
He subsequently met with the President of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Margaret Wahlström, with whom he discussed the preparations for the Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction meeting that will be held in Mexico this month, and the Platform´s contribution to the actions of the international community on climate change.
Lastly, he held a bilateral meeting with Brazilian Human Rights Minister Maria de Rosário Nunes, with whom he analyzed the UN Human Rights Council review and the situation in Libya, which is being assessed by the Council.
The CD is the negotiating forum for multilateral disarmament talks. It was created during the first Special Session on Disarmament of the UN General Assembly in 1978.
It currently consists of 65 members (including Mexico) from every region of the world and includes all of the countries that possess nuclear weapons.
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