UN General Assembly
1968

34. During the debate in the First Committee at the resumed twenty-second session of the General Assembly, at the 1570th meeting, the Tanzanian delegation spoke on the question of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. It is not my intention to repeat that statement. But our call for a greater spread of the uses of atomic energy for peaceful purposes does not allow us to accept the beggar-and-benefactor arrangements envisaged in the present non-proliferation Treaty. We continue to believe that atomic energy can be of great importance in the struggle for economic development, and we believe that it is of the greatest importance that all countries — without discrimination — should have access to it. We are fully aware of the possibility that States may misuse atomic energy and convert it from peaceful to warlike purposes. For that reason we are in full support of all the international machinery which may exist, or could be instituted, to prevent such actions. But this machinery must apply to all; it must not discriminate against the weaker nations. It is for such reasons that we cannot accept the proposals in the present Treaty.