UN General Assembly
1955

134. What is important in the Soviet proposals is the fundamental principles they embody, which could well form the basis for an international convention on the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic weapons. 135. The new Soviet proposals on the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons are a major advance towards a further reconciliation of the positions of the USSR and the Western Powers on the question of disarmament. It should be pointed out that on a number of important issues the Soviet proposals take into account ideas previously put forward by the Western Powers in the Disarmament Commission.