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The United Nations General Assembly is a consensus-building body, where issues of international peace and security are collectively discussed among all United Nations Member States. The General Assembly's work on international security and disarmament is conducted through one of its main committees, the First Committee. The First Committee provides space for States to discuss their positions on disarmament-related matters and to work together to come up with compromises or to propose language or tools to better understand and approach the issues. It offers the opportunity for states to build consensus on the issues and to agree on principles and norms of behaviour. States discuss how to best to arrive at cooperative security arrangements, to make progress on arms control and disarmament regimes and to increase global security for all.

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