UN General Assembly
1963

88. I referred earlier to the two agreements concluded between the nuclear Powers during recent months. As I said then, we are happy indeed to be able to congratulate the great Powers on these achievements. At the same time, and at the risk of being accused of some immodesty, I think it is only fair to state that part of the credit for these successes —and particularly for the limited nuclear test ban Treaty— should rightly go to the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament, which laid the groundwork for the Treaty. We are happy that this has been recognized by the Secretary-General in the introduction to his annual report on the work of the Organization [A/5501/Add.1]. For its part, Burma would have preferred a comprehensive treaty covering underground tests as well, because we consider that the continuance of underground testing, especially if it is on a significant scale, would run counter to the spirit and perhaps even the purpose of the limited test ban Treaty and thus slowly undermine it.