In this advisory report the CAVV provides comments on the preliminary report entitled ‘Development of International Law Relating to Disarmament and Arms Control since the First International Peace Conference in 1899’ by Hans Blix.
Download in het Engels: 3. Disarmament and Arms Control
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Content
The preliminary report sketches the broad outline of legal and other developments in the area of disarmament and arms control since 1899, concluding with the problems of compliance and verification in respect of obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction and related systems and negotiations in this area. The primary focus in this regard is multilateral conventions.
The CAVV observes that the preliminary report pays too little attention to certain subjects, such as conventional arms control.
Commemoration
The Minister of Foreign Affairs requested the advisory report, to be used as Dutch input in a seminar in 1999 at the 100th anniversary of the First Hague Peace Conference.
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