IB Consultancy

After World War II Geneva remained an important venue for disarmament negotiations. The Conference on Disarmament (CD) was established there in 1979. It was the only multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community. The Conference on Disarmament was the successor to earlier Geneva-based forums, including 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). In 1968, an intergovernmental consideration of a chemical and biological weapons ban was initiated. In the years after, the CD has successfully negotiated the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.