Reaching Critical Will has published a conference report for the meeting hosted by the government of Norway on 4-5 March 2013 on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Only two of the nuclear possessing states, India and Pakistan, attended the meeting. The other countries with nuclear weapons-China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, France, Israel, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States-did not participate. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council boycotted the meeting, saying that the conference would "divert discussion and focus" away from other fora. The same day as the conference was held, the UK ambassador to the CD said that "all efforts should be focused on getting the CD back to work" and the Russian ambassador argued that the Oslo conference might "pull apart the CD agenda". China's ambassador warned that discussions external to the CD or UN system would undermine existing processes, while the US ambassador emphasised the need for a "practical, step-by-step approach to disarmament."