UN General Assembly
1967

125. Our main concern is, therefore, I repeat, to endeavour to create a sound and effective instrument, bearing in mind, above all, the general, balanced, controlled and complete disarmament of which nuclear weapons are only one aspect. The proposals under discussion are certainly of fundamental importance, but, in the future, they should not continue to apply only to the non-nuclear countries. Only when progress has also been achieved in the field of general disarmament, both nuclear and conventional, will all the countries of the international community be able to benefit from the use of the resulting economies in accordance with the appeal made by the Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness Pope Paul VI [1347th meeting] and from the enjoyment of local and general security. For this reason, Italy also continues to give favourable consideration to the other proposals concerning collateral measures of disarmament which are still on the agenda of the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament.