UN General Assembly
1982

in pursuance of our African obligations to render moral and material support to SWAPO and to the people of Namibia to enable them to manage their own affairs after independence. 65. Despite the aspirations that led the international community to convene the second special session devoted to disarmament, last June, that session failed to meet those aspirations to even the minimum degree. 66. However, the failure of that session should not preclude us from stressing the importance of the comprehensive programme of disarmament, which would determine the specific measures of disarmament which should be implemented within a defined time¬frame, as well as other measures to prepare the way for future negotiations leading towards general and complete disarmament. Priority in disarmament negotiations should be given to nuclear weapons, and then other weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons and any others which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or o have indiscriminate effects. 67. The Sudan firmly believes that the establish¬ment of nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of agreements or arrangements freely reached among the States of the zones concerned