To conclude, we are grateful for this opportunity to share with colleagues briefly India’s position on nuclear disarmament. We hope that the Conference on Disarmament will continue to make its contribution to progress on disarmament issues, in particular nuclear disarmament. We are conscious that no forum can have an exclusive right to discuss an issue as important as nuclear disarmament. Indeed, nuclear disarmament is always on the agenda of both the United Nations Disarmament Commission and the United Nations General Assembly, and now an Open-Ended Working Group has been mooted to consider proposals to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons. At the same time we need to remember that if our goal is indeed the global, non-discriminatory and verifiable elimination of all nuclear weapons through negotiations, our discussions need to link with and lead to concrete negotiating proposals in the Conference on Disarmament as the sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum.