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DISARMAMENT DEBATE CONT'D, 16 OCTOBER
Posting Date: 10/15/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
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The Committee will also have before it a report of the
Secretary-General on the subject.
The Disarmament Commission was unable to reach agreement, in its
working group, on a draft report on conventional disarmament. It
recommended to the General Assembly that the Commission should
continue its work on the subject at its next substantive
session.
In a resolution on nuclear disarmament (resolution 43/75E), the
Assembly at its last session welcomed the signing and
ratification of the INF Treaty between the United States and the
Soviet Union, and called for strict observance of it. The
Assembly urged the two countries to take the lead in halting the
nuclear-arms race and to negotiate for drastic reduction of their
nuclear arsenals.
With reference to objective information on military matters, the
Assembly will have before it a report of the Secretary-General
(document A/44/396 and Add.1) containing replies received from
Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France (on behalf of the
European Community), the German Democratic Republic, Hungary,
the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. States were requested to inform
the Secretary-General of measures they had adopted on military
confidence-building and implementation of the standardized
reporting system for military expenditures.
The Committee will also have before it a report of the
Secretary-General (document A/44/495) containing information
received from Byelorussia, Oman and the Soviet Union, on the
implementation of General Assembly resolutions in the field of
disarmament. States had been requested to provide their views
and suggestions on that subject to the Secretary-General.
Another report by the Secretary-General, on international arms
transfers (document A/44/444 and Add.1), contains information
received from Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, France (on behalf of
the European Community), Norway, Poland and Bulgaria. The
Secretary-General was asked to seek the views and proposals of
States on various aspects of arms transfers, including their
potential effects in regional conflict areas; their negative
effects on social and economic development; reinforcement of
national control systems; and provision for more openness and
transparency on such transfers.
On the prohibition of the production of fissionable material for
weapons purposes, and the prohibition of the dumping of
radioactive wastes for hostile purposes, the Committee will have
before it the relevant parts of the Conference on Disarmament
report.
On naval armaments and disarmament, an open-ended consultation
group of the Disarmament Commission produced several findings
and recommendations to be used as a basis for further
deliberations.
On the review of the role of the United Nations in the field of
disarmament, a working group of the Disarmament Commission was
unable to reach agreement on concrete recommendations and
proposals, and decided to submit various texts to the Assembly
for its consideration.
In a resolution on conventional disarmament on a regional scale
(resolution 43/75S), the Assembly last year expressed
satisfaction at the adoption of regional and subregional arms
limitation and disarmament initiatives, and at implementation of
confidence-building measures, limitation of conventional weapons
acquisition and reduced military spending, with a view to
allocating the resources released to social and economic
development.
On the dumping of radioactive wastes, the Assembly last year
condemned nuclear-waste dumping practices that infringe upon the
sovereignty of States and requested that the Conference on
Disarmament take up this question. It also expressed profound
concern about the dumping of nuclear and industrial waste in
Africa, with its grave implications for the national security of
African countries.
In its study of the question, the Committee will have before it a
report of the Secretary-General on the dumping of radioactive
wastes in Africa.
Review of 1982 Disarmament Session
When it deals with the review and implementation of the
Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the
General Assembly, the First Committee will take up the questions
of regional disarmament; disarmament and international security;
nuclear-arms freeze; the World Disarmament Campaign; the United
Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa; the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons; the
United Nations disarmament fellowships, training and advisory
services programme; the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace
and Disarmament in Asia; and the United Nations Regional Centre
for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the
Caribbean. At its session last year, the Assembly adopted eight
resolutions under this agenda item.
On the question of regional disarmament, the Committee will have
before it a report of the Secretary-General. In resolution
42/39E, he was asked to keep the Assembly informed on the
implementation of regional disarmament resolutions and on
activities in that field conducted by the Secretariat--
particularly the Department for Disarmament Affairs and the
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.
The Assembly last year again urged the Soviet Union and the
United States to agree to an immediate nuclear-arms freeze,
simultaneously stopping production of nuclear weapons and
fissionable material for weapons purpose (resolution 43/76B). It
called upon all nuclear-weapon States to agree to a
comprehensive freeze, including a comprehensive nuclear-test ban,
a complete and verifiable cessation of the manufacture and
deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles.
A report by the Secretary-General on the World Disarmament
Campaign deals with the implementation of the programme of
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