UN General Assembly
1960

143. What was the stand of the Western representatives? From the very first meeting of the Ten- Nation Committee it became obvious that their aim was to sabotage the drawing up of a concrete disarmament programme and to prevent the practical solution of the disarmament problem. They obstinately refused to proceed to the discussion of the constructive programme presented by the Soviet Union and supported by the other socialist countries; the draft which they submitted, although also entitled "General and complete disarmament", contained no concrete measures for disarmament and absolutely no time limits for the practical implementation of such measures. Everything which the representatives of the United States and the other Western countries proposed in the Committee boiled down to a repetition of their demands for the establishment of the international control and inspection of armaments. These demands of the Western Powers do not go beyond the narrow limits of control of existing armaments; as a matter of fact they do not lead to any disarmament at all and have no other purpose than to establish a system of international espionage.