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Disarmament Declarations Such As the Declaration Issued in Japan in Nugust 1977 Or the New Stockholm Appeal of the World Peace Council Page 137 (~' UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Date 07/06/2006 Time 11 :36:03 AM ffl~ ~----!111111111111111111111!11111!1llllllllllilHlllllll!llllllllllllll!lll!lllli Illll llll II IIII II lllll Ill II lll II lll IIIII II Ill II Ill II Ill II Ill Illll ll Ill II Ill IIIII II lll II lllll lll II Ill II Ill IIIII S-0905-0008-12-00001 Expanded Number S-0905-0008-12-00001 Title Items-in-Special session of General Assembly devoted to disarmament to be held May/June 1978 Date Created 05/05/1977 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0905-0008: Political matters - disarmament 1972-1981 Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit -----~~L--1I I___ Office of Public Information· Final Document of Assembly Session on Disarmament (23 May - 1 July 1978) ! I ~I I I I I I i I I UNITED NATIONS The General Assembly held its Tenth weapons, particularly nuclear Special Session Devoted to Disarma­ weapons, today constitutes much more ment from 23 May to 1 July at United a threat than a protection for the future Nations Headquarters. Before the ses­ of mankind. The time has therefore come to put an end to this situation, to sion ended, the Assembly act,opted by abandon· the use of force in inter­ consensus on 30 June a Final Docu­ national relations and to seek security ment consisting of an Introduction, a in disarmament, that is to say, through Declaration, a Programme of Action, a gradual but effective process begin­ and recommendations concerning the ning with a reduction in the present international machinery for disarma­ level of armaments. The ending of the mel't negotiations. arms race and the achievement of real The text of the Final Document reads: ~sarmament are tasks of primary importance and urgency. To meet this The General Assembly, historic challenge is in the political and Alarmed by the threat to the very sur­ economic interests of all the nations vival of mankind posed by the exist­ and peoples of the world as well as in ence of nuclear weapons and the con­ the interests of ensuring their genuine tinuing arms race, and recalling the security and peaceful future. devastation inflicted by all wars, 2. Unless its avenues are closed the Convinced that disarmament and continued arms race means a gro~g arms limitation, particularly in the threat to international peace_ and se­ nuclear field, are essential for the curity and even to the very survival of prevention of the danger of nuclear war mankind. The nuclear and conven­ and the strengthening of international tional arms build-up threatens to stall peace and security and for the econo­ the efforts aimed at reaching the goals mic and social advancement of all of development, to become an obstacle peoples, thus facilitating the achieve­ on the road of achieving the new inter­ ment of the new international econo­ national economic order and to hinder mic order, the !:!Olution of other vital problems fac­ Having resolved to lay the founda­ ing mankind. tions of an international disarmament 3. Dynamic development of detente, strategy which, through co-ordinated encompassing all spheres of inter­ and persevering efforts in which the national relations in all regions of the United Nations should play a more ef­ world, with the participation of all fective role, aims at general and com­ countries, would create conditions con­ plete disarmament under effective in­ ducive to the efforts of States to end the ternational control, arms race, which has engulfed the Adopts the following Final Docu­ world, thus reducing the danger of war. ment of this special session of the Gen­ Progress on detente and progress on eral Assembly devoted to disarma­ disarmament mutually complement ment: and strengthen each other. 4. The Disarmament Decade solemnly declared in 1969 by the United Nations is coming to an end. Unfortunately, the objectives esta­ I. INTRODUCTION blished on that occasion by the Gen­ eral Assembly appear to be as far 1. Attainment of the objective of se­ away today as they were then, or even curity, which is an inseparable ele­ further because the arms race is not ment of peace, has always been one of diminishing but increasing and out­ the most profound aspirations of strips by far the efforts to curb it. While humanity. States have for a long time it is true that some limited agreements sought to maintain their security have been reached, "effective mea­ through the possession of arms. Ad­ sures relating to the cessation of the mi_ttedly, their survival has, in certain nuclear arms race at an early date and cases, effectively depended on whether to J)Uclear disarm·ament" continue to they could-count on appropriate means elude man's grasp. Yet the imple­ ·of defence. Yet the accumulation of mentation of such measures is ur- 3 gently required. There has not been the United Nations, ·with full recogni­ either any real progress that might tion of the role of the United Nations in lead to the conclusion of a treaty on the field of disarmament and reflect­ general and complete disarmament ing the vital interest of all the peoples under effective international control. of the world in this sphere. The aim of Furthermore, it has not been possible to the Declaration is to review and assess free any amount, however modest, of the existing situation, outline the ob­ the enormous resources, both material jectives and the priority tasks and set and human, that are wasted on the un- forth fundamental principles for dis­ productive and spiralling arms race, armament negotiations. and which should be made available 9. For disarmament, the aims and for ·the purpose of economic and social purposes of which the Declaration pro­ development, especially since such a claims, to become a reality it was es­ race "places a great burden on both the sential to agree on a series of specific developing and the developed disarmament measures, selected by countries." common accord as those on which there is a consensus to the effect that 5. The Members of the United Na­ their subsequent realization in the tions are fully aware of the conviction short term appears to be feasible. There of their peoples, that the question of is also a need to prepare through agreed general and complete disarmament is procedures a comprehensive disarma­ of utmost importance and that peace, ment programme. That programme, security and economic and social passing through all the necessary development are indivisible and have stages, should lead to general and com­ therefore recognized that the · cor­ plete disarmament under effective in­ responding obligations and re­ ternational control. Procedures for sponsibilities are universal. watching over the fulfilment of the 6. Thus a powerful current of opinion obligations thus assumed had also to has gradually formed, leading to the be agreed upon. That is the purpose of convening of what will go down in the the Programme of Action. annals of the United Nations as the 10. Although the decisive factor for first special session of the General As­ achieving real measures of disarma­ sembly devoted entirely to disarma­ ment is the "political will" of States, ment. and especially of those possessing n uc­ 7. The outcome of this special ses­ lear weapons, a significant role can sion, whose deliberations have to a also be played by the effective function­ large extent been facilitated by the five ing of an appropriate international sessions of the Preparatory Committee machinery designed to deal with the which preceded it, is the present Final problems of disarmament in its various Document. This introduction serves as aspects. Consequently, it would be a preface to the document which com­ necessary that the two kinds of organs prises also the following three sec­ required to that end, the deliberative tions: a Declaration, a Programme of and the negotiating organs, have the Action and recommendations concern­ appropriate organization and proce­ ing the international machinery for dures that would be most conducive to disarmament negotiations. obtaining constructive results. The 8. While the final objective of the ef­ fourth and last section of the Final forts of all States should continue to be Document has been prepared with that general and complete disarmament end in view. · under effective international control, the immediate goal is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear II. DECLARATION war and the implementation of mea­ sures to halt and reverse the arms race I 1. Mankind today is confronted and clear the path towards lasting with an unprecedented threatofself-ex­ peace. Negotiations on the entire range tinction arising from the massive and of those issues should be based on the competitive accumulation of the most strict observance of the purposes and destructive weapons ever procfuced. principles enshrined in the Charter of Existing arsenals of nuclear weapons 4 + -- ,:.;;,.::.,,.,_e~•:lftft .. '. _,,.......,,__.;----d:::'+:¥4tt-~n.~~ I alone are more than sufficient to massive accumulation of armaments destroy all life on earth. Failure of and the acquisition ofarmaments tech­ efforts to halt and reverse the arms nology by racist regimes, as well as race, in particular the nuclear arms their possible acquisition of nuclear race, increases the danger of the weapons, present a challenging and in­ proliferation of nuclear weapons. Yet creasingly dangerous obstacle to a the arms race continues. Military bud­ world community faced with the ur­ gets are constantly growing, with enor­ ge:nf need to disarm. It is, therefore, es­ mous consumption of human and ma­ sential for purposes of disarmament to terial resources. The increase in prevent any further acquisition of arms weapons, especially nuclear weapons, or arms technology by such regimes, es­ far from helping to strengthen interna­ pecially through strict adherence by all tional security, on the contrary weak­ States to relevant decisions of the Se­ ens it.
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