UN General Assembly
1972

131. In this spirit, the Australian Government welcomes the fact that the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks have advanced to agreement, if not yet to finality. We welcome the entry into force of the treaty on arms control on the sea-bed. Australia was also able to sign on 10 April last, the day on which it was opened for signature, the Convention to ban biological weapons of war. We would also certainly support the convening, at the appropriate time and after full and careful preparation, of a world disarmament conference that could bring together all nations, and particularly all those more powerful nations whose consensus will be imperative in the words of the Charter to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.