“إن الغرض المباشر من المرحلة الأولى من المراجعة الشاملة هو تحديد مسار عمل وجدول زمني متفق عليهما، يمكن إذا ما تم العمل بهما أن يؤديا إلى التلبية الممكنة المبكرة للمتطلبات ذات الصلة بنـزع السلاح الموصوفة في القسم جيم من القرار 687 (1991)”.
I should like to reaffirm, in this regard, that the proposal for a technical meeting that we put forward during the Vienna discussions and in the preceding letter that we addressed to you is in accordance with and complements your own proposal of September 1998 aimed at undertaking a comprehensive consideration of the disarmament phase since, according to the document that you submitted to the Security Council on 5 October 1998, the direct goal of the first phase of comprehensive consideration was to reach agreement on a method of work and a timetable which, if they were respected, would make it possible to meet speedily the disarmament requirements set forth in section C of resolution 687 (1991).