Part One - General Comments Mr. President, I am glad that we gather again today in this Group to discuss substance. Second, we need a last round of discussions to give justice to two key proposals which have been presented to the Group this year and are most likely to have laid the ground for negotiating the reform of the Council. 1 and CRP 8. 1 and CRP.8 are not the only conference room papers presented to us. All papers mentioned above have equal status .
None is of a higher or lesser value.
Seven of them reflect the well- formulated and stringent views submitted by individual Members States or groups of Mem ber States. I would like to call these elements the subjective side of the discussions. I am using the term subjective in an entirely positive sense here. These papers are not based on po sitions by States or groups of States but on the fair judge-ment by the Chair. They may be considered to represent the objective side of the discussion.