MINSK, 3 June (BelTA) – A Belarusian delegation led by Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva Mikhail Khvostov is taking part in the second part of the annual session of the Conference on Disarmament, Andrei Savinykh, Head of the Information Office, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, told a briefing on 3 June. Belarus chaired at the Conference on Disarmament from 15 February to 12 March 2010. The work of the Belarusian delegation was praised by the delegations of the Conference participating countries, Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament Sergei Ordzhonikidze, UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Sergio Duarte. Chairmanship at the conference promoted further strengthening of the authority and role of Belarus in the international security and disarmament area. The Conference on Disarmament was established in Geneva as the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations. For the time being the Conference has drafted an array of agreements on arms control. The most important of them are the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. There are 65 member-states of the Conference. Belarus joined the Conference in 1996.

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