UN General Assembly
1965

79. We have now before us both a United States and a USSR [A/5976] proposal for a treaty on nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. At this session we should strongly urge the Eighteen-Nation Committee to reach an agreement, taking both of those interesting proposals into consideration. In the meantime it should be possible, as a preliminary measure, to reach agreement on more limited steps such as the moratorium on proliferation proposed by the Italian delegation at Geneva. As we see it, the Italian proposal has many merits, and we support it, not least because any step, however small, will be conducive to creating a political atmosphere that may make further steps possible. However, the Italian proposal could perhaps be said to be somewhat unbalanced Inasmuch as it suggests that the nonnuclear Powers undertake important obligations without demanding corresponding commitments on the part of the nuclear Powers. We feel that the possibility of a more balanced arrangement should be studied.