I propose to take Questions Nos. 52 and 97 together.
When I launched the new agenda declaration in Dublin on 9 June 1998, I stated that it was my intention to pursue this initiative in the context of the General Assembly of the United Nations and at other fora as appropriate.
In September the eight foreign ministers of the new agenda group met in New York and launched a draft resolution at the General Assembly with a view to securing the support of the wider international community for the objectives which the new agenda group had set.
This draft resolution became the centrepiece of the disarmament deliberations in the General Assembly and the new agenda countries worked tirelessly to bring the international community to endorse the new direction which we had advanced and to act on foot of our recommendations.