UN General Assembly
1980

48. I wish to reaffirm my Government's readiness, which is shared by the other States parties to the Warsaw Treaty, to negotiate and to assume treaty obligations on the limitation, reduction and complete destruction of any type of weapons on the basis of equal security and reciprocity. It is on that basis that the socialist countries have put forward initiatives in different fields of disarmament. 49. It is a matter of concern to us that the Committee on Disarmament, at Geneva, has once again failed to make any notable headway in the current year. The Committee has spent too much time dealing with organizational and procedural questions. At the opposite pole from the socialist countries with their initiatives for the solution of disarmament problems, certain Western Powers are seeking to avoid undertaking any commitments. There is little hope for progress if some members of the Committee on Disarmament fail to summon up the political will necessary in the quest for solutions to the issues under discussion.