Later in April 1993, the Negotiating Council set up technical committees to carry on the negotiations.

The technical committees to whom the useful work of the Convention was due were recruited from the Plain.

Minutes of technical committees reviewed by Reuters indicate that almost no attention was paid to preparing a programme of mass testing.

A six-page draft communique seen by Reuters calls for "credible, verifiable, sequenced and reciprocal steps" starting with a truce to be monitored by technical committees.