About UN Conference on Disarmament
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is not formally a United Nations (UN) organization.
It is linked to the UN through a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General It is a forum established in 1979 by the international community to negotiate multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements.
The conference has 65 members represent all areas of the world, including all known nuclear-weapon states (including India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea) Resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly often request conference to consider specific disarmament matters.
In turn, conference annually reports its activities to UNGA. In the 1990s, the Conference had held intensive efforts to draft CTBT text and its two annexes, but it did not succeed in reaching consensus on the adoption of the text.
Currently it conducts discussion on Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), a pact to prevent an arms race in outer space, nuclear disarmament and negative security assurances (NSA).
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