UN General Assembly
1982

Unfortunately, the necessary readiness is so far lacking. And, while many of the participants in this year's special session on disarmament were trying hard to identify ways of achieving concrete disarmament measures, the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, just as they did in Washington at the time of the first special session on disarmament, decided at their summit in Bonn to strengthen their military potential even further. They are pushing ahead with preparations for the deploy¬ment of United States medium-range missiles in Western Europe from 1983 on and speeding up the implementation of their long-term arms program. The line followed by a number of States at the second special session on disarmament reflected that policy -small wonder, since those who on the Potomac River are busily adopting plans for the achievement of military superiority can hardly be expected to agree at the same time on the East River to measures to outlaw war. 40. At the present session the General Assembly can draw on a large number of concrete proposals which were put forward by socialist and