UN General Assembly
1993

Review Conference. Portugal urges all the parties that have not yet done so to ratify it, and reiterates the need for all the nuclear-weapon States that have emerged from the former Soviet Union to implement and comply with the obligations resulting from the START I and START II Treaties and the Lisbon Protocol. At this point, allow me to stress the importance my Government attaches to the work of the Conference on Disarmament, to which my country has recently presented its candidature for full membership. I wish to refer here to the current negotiations that are seeking to conclude the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks. While we hope for their successful conclusion, which we consider to be fundamental for the world economy, we also believe that the result should reflect a global and balanced solution based on an opening of markets and a reinforcement of the rules of international trade. I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Government of Israel and the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization for the realism, lucidity, courage and