UN General Assembly
1976

143. Nevertheless, some initiatives are taking shape to revise the very structures of the disarmament effort. My Government is following them with interest. It is prepared to support any proposal aimed at genuine disarmament, that is, at the effective destruction of weapons of all types, nuclear and conventional, in accordance with a reasonable time-table and under effective international control. 144. Since the very birth of the United Nations, it has ' been fashionable to criticize and even lampoon our Organization for its shortcomings and relative ineffectiveness.