UN General Assembly
1968

40. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [resolution 2373 (XXII)], which has been accepted by a large number of States, is a step in. the right direction, but nothing more. If we consider its pitfalls and some of the consequences of its weaknesses, a rather dreadful awareness overtakes us. In the debate on the draft treaty, at the 1568th meeting of the First Committee, at the resumed twenty-second session, the Liberian representative stated that the draft seemed basically to be concerned more with the non-proliferation of nuclear States than with the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and that it was an alarming misconception of what was actually required as it provided only for horizontal non-proliferation and not vertical non-proliferation.