UN General Assembly
1967

182. I now turn to disarmament. Progress over the past year in disarmament — another effort connected with preparing and planning for peace — although significant in terms of achievement, is becoming increasingly fraught with new problems. The big Powers seem never to have come nearer to an agreement on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons than they were this summer at Geneva. 183. The Soviet Union and the United States have now submitted separately identical texts of a draft for a non-proliferation treaty. That the two great Powers have found sufficient common grounds and identity of interests to submit identical texts of a treaty is in itself progress. But that, on the other hand, they have failed to agree on an inspection mechanism despite intensive negotiations and that the whole question of inspection is left out does not seem to bode well for the future.