UN General Assembly
1990

In respect of the first basket of the Helsinki Final Act - which covers disarmament and security - we believe that procedures should be set up involving regular consultations and information exchanges between the Foreign Ministers of the 35 member States - soon to be only 34 - and that the Heads of State or Government should also meet at regular intervals to establish what the content of the co-operation between their States should be. This should go together with the establishment of a small general secretariat and, perhaps, the involvement of CSCE diplomatic representatives. We are in favour of setting up a system to prevent conflicts, based on exchanges of information, on consultations and on mediation and arbitration. Together with the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Belgium has developed a specific proposal to this end.