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HANDOUT SWISS PRESS PHOTO 16 - Swiss Press Photo, 2. Platz Kategorie Schweizer Reportagen, Mark Henley: Hiroyuki Yamamoto deputy representative of the Japanese delegation during discussions following the end of the meeting, shortly before Japan ws due to take over the presdiency of the CD. The following day a Japanese government official addressed the conference:."It is regrettable that this distinguished body, which produced the Chemical Weapons Convention.(CWC), Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.(CTBT), remains mired in an 18-year standstill. In order to meet expectations of the people.worldwide for a safer world free of nuclear weapons, .. .....As the only country ever to have suffered nuclear bombings, Japan knows from its own.experience the catastrophic humanitarian consequences from the use of nuclear weapons."..Conference on Disarmament. Year 35, 2014 Session 1, Plenary meeting 1308. Presidency of Italy (SWISS PRESS PHOTO/Mark Henley) HANDOUT, NO SALES, ABDRUCK NUR IM ZUSAMMENHANG MIT DER BERICHTERSTATTUNG ZU SWISS PRESS PHOTO, BEI VERWENDUNG MUSS DIE VOLLSTAENDIGE QUELLENANGABE ANGEGEBEN WERDEN, MANDATORY CREDIT