text: It is a particular pleasure for us to have yet another opportunity to address this body. The presence of Iraq in the Conference on Disarmament and its participation in the Conference's work in this and the previous year clearly demonstrate the interest that the Government of Iraq has in disarmament negotiations, as well as its support for all international efforts to devise effective methods to control nuclear armament, reducing it to the minimum level needed to protect the integrity and security of States, and totally eliminating all weapons of mass destruction in order to free our world from the threat of annihilation due to the accumulation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. The Government of the Republic of Iraq is simultaneously endeavouring to ensure the advent of a world in which relations based on the United Nations Charter, the principles of international law and the settlement of bilateral and regional conflicts through direct negotiations among the parties concerned will prevail. My Government has expressed its belief in these principles by giving a positive response to international peace efforts and by respecting all Security Council resolutions adopted since September 1980 in which the Security Council has called for a cease-fire between Iraq and Iran and a negotiated settlement to the conflict. Iraq was the first to accept resolution 598 and informed the Secretary-General of its acceptance only two days after the adoption of the resolution. For disarmament negotiations to result in effective measures that can win wide support, those measures must be conducive to the national security interests of States. In that regard, Iraq has always endeavoured to achieve a just, comprehensive and durable peace with Iran, and to eliminate the reasons which have compelled the States of this region to enter into an escalating 
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