UN General Assembly
1988

Fourthly, Japan intends to do everything it can to help the countries that have been involved in armed conflicts in various parts of the world to recover from the devastation of war, achieve economic recovery and reconstruction, restore stability and improve the living standards of their peoples once the conflicts are over. Another task as we approach the twenty-first century, one that is inseparable from the quest for peace, is that of disarmament. If arms control and disarmament are to contribute to true peace and stability worldwide, it is imperative that all countries work together so that their legitimate security requirements can be met at the lowest possible level of armament. Only when the bilateral arms control and disarmament efforts between the United States and the Soviet Union are synergistically combined with the multilateral efforts of the United Nations, the Conference on Disarmament and other forums will global arms control and disarmament be possible.