UN General Assembly
1971

128. Poland attaches particular importance to the full and practical implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the crucial area of central Europe. For that reason we hope that States in that area which have so far not ratified the Treaty will do so without further delay, and will participate in negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency with a view to signing safeguards agreements. Poland was already agreed upon the text of an agreement with the Agency on this matter. 129. We hope that the present session will approve the draft convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons [AI8457-DC/234, annex A], of which Poland is a sponsor. At the same time, it is our profound hope that a convention on the complete elimination of chemical weapons will soon be drawn up. We hope for further progress towards the exclusion from the arms race of the sea-bed and the ocean floor and the subsoil thereof and, eventually, the complete demilitarization of that area.