UNITED NATIONS A _..._-------_.._- -------------- General Assembly Distr. G~ERAL A/42/669/Add.l 23 November 19ti7 ORIGINAL' ENGLISH Forty-sec~nd session Agenda item 62 3ENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT Report of ~hc First Committee (part 11) Rapporteur I Mr. Kazimierz TOMASZEWSKI (Poland) t. INTRODUCTION 1. Part I of the report of the First Committee on item ~2 (A/42/669) dealt witt\ a dralt resolution entitled "General and complete disarmamerltl nuclear disacmament" and a draft decision entitled "General and complet,e dlaarmamert", part I1 deals with all other proposals submitted under item 62. 2. As indicated ill pl'\rt I, at ita 2nd meeting, on 1 October, the First Committee decidcn to hold a general debate on the disarmament items alloc6ted to it, namely, hems 48 to 69, ':ollowed by statements on specific disarmament· agenda items and a continu&tion of the general debate, as necessary. The deliberations on those items took place between the 3rd and the 31st meeting, from l? October to 3 November (see A/C.l/42/PV.3-31) • 3. In connection with item 62, in addition to the documents listed in part 1, the First Committee had before it the following documentsl (a) Letter dated 19 October 1987 from the Permanent Representative nf Canada to the united Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting the Vancuuvor Declaration on World Trade, the Okanagan Statement on ~~uthern Africa and PruqrallUlIt! of Action and the convnunique of the Meeting of the CORlllonwealth Hpads of Governlllent, beld at Vancouver, Canada, from 13 to 17 october 19&7 (A/42/6 77) , (IJ) Letter dated 23 OCtober 1907 from the Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations adciresued to the Secretary-General, transmitting the final l:ol1l1\unique of the Meetinq of NinilitlO:rs for Foreign Affairs and Heads of De legation of the ~'ovement of Non-Aligned Countries to the for ty-second session of the Gp-fleral Assembly, held in Ne\>' York from t; to 7 OCtoher 1987 (\142/681» 97-3U794 0589P (B) / .... 1I/42/669/Add.l English Page 2 (c) Letter dated 24 October 1987 from the Petmanent Representative of Mongolia to the united Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (A/42/6S4)J (d) Letter dated 2 Noveni>er 1987 from the Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting the communique and the document entitled "Towards increasing the effectiveness of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva", issued at the session of the Committee of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the States members of the Warsaw Treaty, held at Prague on 28 and 29 OCtober 1987 (11/42/708 and Corr.l); (e) Letter dated 5 Noveni>er 1987 from the Permanent Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the united Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (A/42/7l5-S/19252). II. CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS A. Draft tes01ution A/C.l/42/L.2 and Rev.l 4. On 16 OCtober, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Ureece, ~taly, Japan, the Netherlands, New zealand, Norway, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland submitted a draft resolution, entitled "Bilateral nuclear-arms negotiations" (A/C.l/42/L.2), which was later also sponsored by Portugal. The draft resolution was introduced by the representative of the United Kingdom at the 9th meeting, on 16 OCtober, and read as follows: "The General Asseni>ly, "Recalling that at their meeting at Geneva in Novembe~ 1985 the leaders of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet socialist Republics committed themselves to the objective of working out effective agreements aimed at preventing an arms race in space and terminating it on Earth, y "Noting that in their joint statement 01 8 January 1985 the Government of the united States of America and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist RepUblics agreed that the subject of the negotiations was a complex of questions concerning space an~ nuclear arms, both strategic and intermediate-range, with all ~~." questions considered and resolved in ~~eir interrelationship, ~ 11 A/40/1070, annex. 2/ See Official Records . heral l\ssernbl , Fortieth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/40/27 and pendix II (CD/642"jAppendix ii:7vol. Il), documents CD/570 and CD/57l. / ... A/42/669/Add.l Enqliah PaC)o 3 "Noting with satisfaction that at thoir meeting at Waahington from 15 to 1'1 Soptembor 1987, the United ~3tatel.' of Amorica and the Union ot SovJ ut Socialist Republics reached an agreement in prioo :6.1,10 on the elimination of their intermodiate-range and shortel ·ranC)e missiles, "Noting aloo with satisfaction the agreement of the two Governmenta that a sin.ilarly intensive offort should bo made to achieve a treaty on a fifty por cont reduction in their strategic offensive arms, tlNot ing further wi th s.::.t isfaction that the two s idoo l'omllin commi ttod to furthor progress in their bilateral negotiations, building on what hae beon achieved so far, tlUel1~vin9, that, throuqh negotiations pursued in a spirit of floxibility and with full account ta~en of the aecurity intereste of ~ll States, it is poasible to ~"-hievc far-reaching and effectively verifiablo agreements, "Firmly convinced that an early agreement in these negotiations, in accordance with the principle of undiminished security at the lowest possible levol of armaments, would be of crucial importance for the strengthening of international peace and oecurity, "Purther convinced that the international community should encourage tho Government of the United States at America and the Government of tho Union ol Soviot Socialist RepUblics in their endeavours, taking into account both thl' importance and complexity of their negotiaLicns, "1. Welcomes the agreement in principle between the United States of Amorica and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to cor-elude a treaty eliminating their intermediate-rango and shorter-'rango mJ.saUeeJ "2. Urges tho two Governmonts to make oarly progress in other aroae wh~re there is cOllll\on ground, in partiCUlar to m.,ke an intensive effort. to achieve a treaty on a fiCty per cont reduction in their strategic ol(onuivu arms, "3. Calls upon the Government of the Unite" ::itatoD of America and 1Ill' Governmont of the Union of Soviet Socialist nepublics to sp,jro no effort in s(wking the attainment of all their agreed objectives in the noqotiat ions, in accordance with the security interests oC all States and the universal denial' for progress towards disarmament, "4. Invites the two Governments concerned to keep other. States Membcl's ot the United Nations duly informed of progress in those neqotiations betwoon tho United States of America and the Union of Soviet S~ialist Republics, in uccordance with pal aqraph 114 oC the Final Docwnent of the Tonth Special Session of the General Assembly, '1/ t:he first special session devoted to cl isarmament J ~/ Resolution S-10/2. I• .. A/42/669/Add.l English Page 4 .. 'j. Expre at:l~s its f irmest ~ssible encouragemont and support for the bilateral negotiations t..,d the ir suco~ssful oonCJluslon." s. On 9 November, the sponsors submitted a revised draf.t resolution (A/C.l/42/L.2/Rev.l), whioh was introduoed by the representative of the United Kingdom at the 39th meeting, on la November, and oontained the following ohangesl (a) Tto third preambular paragraph was revised to read as followsl ·Noting with satisfaotion that the Uniced States of America ~nd the Union of Soviet Socialist Republios ha1e reaohed an agreement on t~e total elimination of their intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles". (b) In the fourth preambular paragraph t~e word "should" was roplaoed by che word ·will". thf. comma at the end of the paragrar". was deleted and the phrase ·within the framework of the Geneva nuclear and spaoe talks" was addud, (c) The fifth preambular paragraph was t~visGd to read aa followsl "Noti...g further with sati... faction tha::, at. theit' forthcaning meeting, the leaders of the two countries will consider thoroughly the developmer.t of Instr~ctions to delegations on a future treat; on ~ i1tty per oent reduction in United States and Soviet strategic offensive arms and on the observance of and non~dthdrawal from the ABM "'TPaty for an agreed period". (d) In operative paragraph l~ the words "in principle" were delated. (e) Operat ive para9raph 2 was replaced by the following paragraphl H2. Notes with satisfaction that Presid,,,,t Rea9an and General se~~l.Y Gorbachev have agreed to "'Pflt in the United States be9inning on 7 December 1987, and that a further meeting in the Soviet Union is envisioned between them in the first half of 1980". (f) In opar,.',ive para9raph 3, a cClnuna was inserted ,~t the end of the paragraph and the following text was addedl "in particular early aoh1evement of a treaty implementing the agruement to reduce strate9ic offeru~ive arms by fifty per cent, which could bo signed Pr~Eident durln') Reagan's visit to Moscow". 6. At its 39th m~eting, on 10 November, the Committee adopted draft resolution A/C.l/42 /L.2/Rev.l by a recorded vote of 84 to none, with 42 abstentious (see para. 54, draft resolution A). The voting was as (ollowsa In favour a Australia, Austria, klahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Central African Republic, Chil~, China, Colombia, COsta Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Czechoslovakia, DemocL"atic Kanpuchea, Denmark, Djibouti, / ... A/42/669/Add.l English Page 5 oominican Republic,