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UNITED NATIONS Distr. GENERAL GENERAL A/8U5T JDC/23h 6 OctoLer 1971 ASSEMBLY ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/RUSSIAN Twenty-sixth session Agenda items 27 3 28 and 29 GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARIvlA^NT QUESTION OF CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL) CAPONS URGENT NEED FOR ' . ' SUSPENSION OF NUCLEAR AND THERÎiONUCLEAR TESTS Report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament CONTENTS Paragraphs INTRODUCTION ................................................ 1-it I. ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFERENCE ............................. 5 - 9 A. Procedural arrangements ................................... 5 - 8 B. Participants in the Conference ............................... 9 II. и О Ж OF THE COMMITTEE DURING 1 9 7 1 .............................. 10-75 A. Further effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament ................ 13-29 B. Non-nuclear measures ...................................... 30-62 C. Other collateral measpres ................................ 6^1-67 D. General and complete disarmament.......... 68-75 III. SPECIAL REPORT ON THE QUESTION OF A TREATY BANNING UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTS . ............................ ...... 76-127 71-20163 a /81+57 DC/25I+ English Page 2 CONTENTS (continued) MITEXES A. Draft convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction B. List of working papers and other docments C. Text of working papers and other Committee documents D. List of verbatim records A/8U57 'DQ.l2'5h English Page,3 INTRODUCTION 1. The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament suhmits to the United Nations General Assembly and to the United Nationd Disarmament Commission a progress report on the Committee's deliberations on all questions before it for the period from 23 February 1971 to 30 September 1971, together with the pertinent docviments and records. 2. Included in this report is a detailed account of the negotiation to which the Committee devoted an important part of its work, during 1971» regarding the question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and, in particular, regarding a draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction. The text of the draft Convention is contained in annex A. 3. This report also includes accounts of the Committee’s work during 1971 on, further effective measures relating to the cessation of the пггс1еаг arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, non-nuclear measures, other collateral measures, and general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control. U. A special report on the question of a treaty banning underground nuclear weapon tests is set forth in section III below. \ I. Organization of the Conference A. Procedural arrangements 5. The Conference reconvened on 23 February 1971- 6. Two sessions were held, the first from 23 February to 13 May 1971, and the second from 29 June to 30 September 1971= During this period the Committee held 50 formal plenary meetings during which members set forth their Government’s views and recommendations for progress on the questions before the Committee. The Committee also held four informal meetings without records. 7. In addition to the plenary meetings described above, members of the Committee met frequently for informal multilateral consultations on disarmament questions of common interest. A/8U57 English Page U 8. The representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, in their capacity as Co-Oiairmen of the Committee, also '%• held meetings to discuss procedural and substantive questions before the Committee. B. Participants in the Conference « 9 . Representatives of the following States continued their participation in the work of the Committee: Argentina, BrazilBulgaria, Burma, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Egypt— Ethiopia, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Yugoslavia. II. Work of the Committee during 1971 1 0 . In a letter dated l6 February 1 9 7 1 , the Secretary-General of the United Nations transmitted to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament the following resolutions adopted at the twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly: A/RES/2661 (XXV) - General and complete disarmament, together with document A/819I referred to therein A/EES/2662 (XXV) - Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons A/RES/2663 (XXV) - Urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests A/EES/2667 (XXV) - Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security, and also the following resolutions which dealt with disarmament matters: A/RES/2660 (XXV) - Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof A/RES/266U (XXV) - Implementation of the of the Conference of Non-Nuclear-Weapon States 3^/ On 1 September 1971 the name of the United Arab Republic was changed to Egypt. A/8R57 DC/25*+ English 5 A/RES/2665 (XXV) - Establishment, within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency, of an international service for nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes under appropriate international control A/RES/2666 (XXV) - Status of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 2U56 В (XXIII) concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco). Members of the Committee were assisted in their examination and analysis of possible disarmament measures by numerous messages, working papers and other documents that were submitted to the Conference (annexes В and C), and by the plenary statements of Committee members (annex D). 11. On 23 February 1971 the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations delivered a message from the Secretary-General to the Conference recalling that the General Assembly, in its declaration on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Na.tions, while welcoming the important international agreements which had already been achieved in the limitation of armaments, called for the early negotiation of further agreements and expressed the hope that negotiations would move forward from arms limitation to a reduction of armaments and disarmament everywhere. The message stated that the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, which has contributed so much to the successful negotiations of these treaties during the past decade and which is continuing to perform a major role in the difficult search for ways to halt and reverse the arms race, should take due notice of this urgent call of the General Assembly at its commemorative session. 12. The Committee continued work in accordance with its provisional agenda on the following measures in the field of disarmament: (_a) Further effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament; (b ) Non-nuclear measures ; (c) Other collateral measures; (^) General and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control. A/8t^57 DC/23^ English Page 6 A. Further effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament 1 3 , Members of the Committee continued their work in 1971 on questions relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race, li|. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 2663 (XXV), which requested the Committee to continue, as a matter of urgency, its deliberations on a treaty banning undergroimd nuclear weapon tests and to submit to the Assembly at its twenty-sixth session a special report on the results of its deliberations, a special report on the results of the Committee's deliberations on this question has been prepared and is set forth as part III of this document, 15 . The delegations of Poland (CCD/PV.501 and 510) , Hungary (CCD/PV,502), Morocco (CCD/PV,504), Canada (CCD/PV,507 and 517) and the USSR (CCD/PV,517) called for the accession to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water of I963 by as many countries as possible, 16 , A nmber of delegations made reference to the bilateral discussions between the Governments of the USSR and the United States on the limitation of strategic armaments. While expressing the hope that these talks would reach early agreement on significant measures to restrain and turn back the nuclear arms race, many members stressed that the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament should continue to accord the highest priority to measures in the field of nuclear A number of delegations also stressed the importance of qualitative as well as quantitative limitations and reductions of strategic armaments and urged that the Conference receive adequate information about the progress of these negotiations. The USSR delegation outlined to the Committee the programme of disarmament put forward by the Soviet Union in the spring of 1971 which provides, inter alia, for the conclusion of treaties banning nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction; the cessation of nuclear