UN General Assembly
1977

75. Disarmament is a problem of concern to all countries, great and small, and in our view the United Nations offers the most appropriate framework for dealing with it. 76. In spite of their merits, the negotiations begun outside the United Nations-such as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Talks on mutual and balanced force reductions and so on—cannot bring us to true disarmament. The most that they can lead to would be arrangements or bilateral or multilateral understandings relating to peripheral aspects of the question. 77. My delegation, for its part, sets great store by the special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on disarmament, to be held in the spring of 1978, in the course of which all of us will have not only to put forth our respective points of view objectively but also to take responsible decisions on this important question which has been of constant concern to the community of nations since the period between the two wars.