UN General Assembly
1965

122. In contrast to this, the draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons recently submitted by the United States delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Committee in Geneva is clearly motivated by the desire to legitimize the plans for the establishment of a multilateral nuclear force within NATO, and possibly in other military blocs. Obviously such a draft cannot form the basis for an agreement on a genuine prohibition of the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The reaction which it encountered in the Eighteen-Nation Committee itself fully confirms that conclusion. 123. The adoption of a treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the implementation of even some of the specific measures of disarmament, the proposals for which are well known, would undoubtedly help pave the way for more successful negotiations on general and complete disarmament, which remain our chief task and chief objective.