UN General Assembly
1958

83. We share the view expressed by the Secretary- General in the introduction to his annual report [A/3844/Add.1] that the encouraging results obtained by the Conference of Experts to Study the Possibility of Detecting Violations of a Possible Agreement on the Suspension of Nuclear Tests, held in Geneva last summer, seemed to indicate a way of separating the political from the non-political elements so that a solution may be found at an early stage to the problems entailed in the former, which will undoubtedly increase the possibilities of arriving at a subsequent agreement on the latter. This is also evident from the interest in holding similar talks shortly concerning the security measures necessary to prevent surprise attacks. The same method might perhaps also be tried with regard to the other concrete measures specified in resolution 1148 (XII) which the General Assembly adopted at the twelfth session and which would seem likely to benefit by a similar approach by stages.