Editing Conference on Disarmament (section)

==History==

The Conference was first established in 1979 as the '''Committee on Disarmament''' as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community.<ref name="Intro" /> It was renamed the '''Conference on Disarmament''' in 1984.

The Conference succeeded three other disarmament-related bodies: the [[Ten Nation Committee on Disarmament]] (1960), the [[Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament]] (1962–1968) and the [[Conference of the Committee on Disarmament]] (1969–1978).

The Conference was created with a permanent agenda, also known as the "Decalogue", which includes the following topics:<ref name="NTI" />
* [[Nuclear weapons]] in all aspects
* Other [[weapons of mass destruction]]
* Conventional weapons
* Reduction of [[military budget]]s
* Reduction of armed forces
* Disarmament and development
* Disarmament and [[international security]]
* Collateral measures; confidence building measures; effective verification methods in relation to appropriate disarmament measures, acceptable to all parties
* Comprehensive programme of disarmament leading to general and complete disarmament under effective international control

Additionally, all decisions of the body must be agreed upon by consensus according to the rules and procedures of the conference.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/cd/RulesofProcedure.pdf |title=Rules of Procedure of the Conference on Disarmament|publisher=Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |website=Reaching Critical Will |access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref>