State's Rademaker says Conference on Disarmament is deadlocked
A top U.S. arms control official told a U.N. audience the United States is dismayed by the lack of progress in certain international arms control fora, including the continuing logjam at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
Stephen Rademaker, assistant secretary of state for arms control, told the U.N. General Assembly's First Committee October 8 that the CD had failed for the eighth year in a row to make progress in negotiating international arms control and disarmament agreements -- an activity that he called the CD's essential function.
Election "augers well" for vigorous democracy, U.N. official reports
United Nations -- The Security Council and Secretary General Kofi Annan October 12 congratulated the Afghan people on the conduct of their first presidential election.
In a presidential statement read during a public meeting, the Security Council stressed the election's "historic importance as a milestone in the political process" and congratulated the millions of Afghan voters, many of them women and refugees "who showed their commitment to democracy by participating in the first popular election of their head of state."
Washington -- A resolution adopted unanimously by the U.N. Security Council October 8 states that terrorism is "one of the most serious threats to peace and security," and establishes a working group to propose practical counterterrorism measures.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth said the most significant paragraph in Resolution 1566 declares that the intentional targeting of civilians for death or serious injury is "criminal and never justifiable."
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