UN General Assembly
1993

that in due course our idea will be supported and developed by our neighbours. Of great concern to the international community is the threat of illegal exports from the territory of the former Forty-eighth session - 29 September l993 27 Soviet Union of nuclear materials, technology and equipment, which can fall into irresponsible hands. Responding to this danger, Belarus was the first State of the region to enter into a large-scale agreement with the United States to set up a stringent system for export control. Work on implementing this agreement is already under way. Other initiatives put forward by my country are no less familiar to the United Nations. After many years of effort by Belarus, there has been agreement on international machinery that has the potential to prevent States from replenishing their arsenals with new types of weapons of mass destruction. During this session we intend to continue our active work in this area. Taking an authoritative position on these issues, Belarus, on behalf of and on the instructions of the States of