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The Chair's draft text was the least controversial of all the sectoral texts. Each reading was very quick and there was agreement on all issues. The final text (E/CN.17/1994/L.6) urges governments to promptly begin the development of an international convention on the safety of radioactive waste management. At Sweden's request, the Commission has addressed the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and the need to address radioactive defense wastes that are often outside the mandate of national safety agencies. The text also supports the November 1993 decision of the London Dumping Convention to convert the voluntary moratorium on ocean dumping of radioactive wastes into a binding prohibition. The text notes that the export of radioactive wastes to countries without the technical, economic, legal and administrative resources for their management is inadmissible.