UN General Assembly
1957

93. We shall watch with great interest and hope the discussions that lake place at the present session on disarmament. We support the view that the testing of nuclear weapons should be banned unconditionally. This would constitute a very promising beginning for a comprehensive programme of disarmament. Such a beginning, we feel, could not fail to lessen the climate of suspicion and tension which, unfortunately, prevails today. It seems to us inadvisable to insist on a whole series of technical and political considerations as a concomitant to the first step of banning nuclear tests. It is our view that the practical approach to disarmament is to proceed in the step-by-step manner.