Mr. Singh Gill (India): Thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to contribute to our discussions today on nuclear disarmament. My delegation may return to this important theme in subsequent meetings. For India, the foremost priority issue in the Conference on Disarmament has been and continues to be nuclear disarmament. This is a priority we share with other members of the Non-Aligned Movement and here in Geneva with the Group of 21. More than two decades after the end of the cold war, and despite a radically reconfigured political and security landscape, we are not any closer to beginning negotiations on global nuclear disarmament within a time-bound framework than we were in 1978 when SSOD-I enshrined nuclear disarmament as the primary mandate of this Conference.