text: the Conference that have been and are being made by non-members. Such participation should be encouraged and facilitated to the extent possible, not least in the perspective of promoting the prospects of universal adherence to agreements under negotiation in the Conference. Also on this question, we must devote our time and efforts to the substantive issues before us and not lose time on recurrent discussions of applications from non-member States. At least for those States and Governments which take part in the work of United Nations General Assembly or its subsidiary bodies, applications for participation as non-members in the work of the CD should be granted automatically. The Swedish delegation has expressed its serious concern that we have not yet, after so many years, been able to settle the question of the expansion of the membership of the Conference. It is high time to take a concrete decision. My delegation hopes a consensus will crystallize in the very near future. The PRESIDENT: I thank the representative of Sweden for his statement and for the kind words he addressed to the Chair. I now give the floor to the representative of Mexico, Ambassador Marin Bosch. Mr. MARIN BOSCH (Mexico) (translated from Spanish): Mr. President, please accept the congratulations of the Mexican delegation on the way in which you have been conducting our proceedings in this month of July. We are sure that these proceedings will be successful. Permit me also to register our appreciation for the work carried out in June by Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero and the other members of the Peruvian delegation. CD/PV.566 6 (Mr, Marin Bosch, Mexico) The history of negotiations on chemical weapons is the longest of all the multilateral disarmament negotiations. The 1925 Geneva Protocol, in spite of its limited scope, is the first instrument whereby the community of nations 
analysis: The text appears to be a speech or statement made by a representative of a country (Sweden) to a conference or meeting, discussing issues related to the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and the participation of non-member states. The topics covered include the expansion of the CD's membership, the granting of participation to non-member states, and the history of negotiations on chemical weapons. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting that the text is related to international relations and diplomacy.