UN General Assembly
1965

135. Nor, again regrettably, is there universal acceptance of the short but important step forward which was made with the conclusion of the partial test-ban Treaty. As New Zealand has made clear since the eighteenth session of the General Assembly in 1963, both New Zealand and the South Pacific countries and territories with which it Is associated view with apprehension and with concern the continued plans of France to test thermonuclear weapons in the South Pacific on a fast approaching date. Even more sombrely do we view the possession of nuclear devices, few and ineffective though they may be at present, by a country — mainland China — which has cast itself as outlaw and rejects the norms of International behaviour hitherto taken for granted.