From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions.
Sinn Fein will appoint a delegate to a disarmament committee when the government convenes this Thursday, and Trimble has threatened to resign and pull his party out of the joint government if the IRA hasn't handed over some weapons by February.
The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD) succeeded the Eighteen Nation Committee Disarmament (ENCD) as the U.N.'s disarmament committee in 1969.
She spent much time in Geneva, working on behalf of the women's disarmament committee, which was preparing a petition for disarmament prior to the Geneva disarmament conference of 1932.
Last weekend, the outlawed Irish Republican Army sent an emissary to meet with an international disarmament committee to discuss the turnover of its weapons, which is required under the peace settlement.
He was a firm member of the nuclear disarmament committee and while he appreciated the current necessity he deplored actually discussing them.
'Terribly Disturbed' by Treaty The feeling was shared by Jurgen Todenhofer, who resigned a month ago as spokesman for the Christian Democrats' disarmament committee.
The Times ran an article about Foot, who had been put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee.
He was appointed to a League of Nations disarmament committee in December 1925 and then became Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and Director of Operations and Intelligence on 12 April 1926.
Irish and British officials are considering handling the issue by appointing former Senator George J. Mitchell to head a separate disarmament committee at the June talks.