Date:
2 December 2012
There are good reasons for the inclusion of the consensus rule in the Conference of Disarmament’s Rules of Procedure. These are discussed below. But the consensus rule is being eroded tacitly or directly by those who are most keen to preserve it.
Something has to give. Unless a more enlightened approach is taken to the use of consensus in the CD, the utility if not the integrity of that institution will be further debased.