UN General Assembly
1954

65. Finally, I come to the question of disarmament. My country took a lead in pressing for a meeting of the Disarmament Commission in April and for the appointment of the Sub-Committee. We felt that the time had come to make another attempt to reach agreement. We were gratified that our invitation to hold the Sub-Committee meetings in London was accepted by the other four member countries. At those meetings I ventured to suggest that we should discuss the problems of disarmament in three groups. First, we should decide upon the scope of any disarmament plans, that is to say, what it was we wanted to prohibit and what it was we wanted to limit, and the extent of the desired limitations. That was the first group of problems. Secondly, we should seek agreement upon the nature and powers of the international control organization which is essential for any internationally-supervised disarmament plan. Thirdly, we should seek agreement on a phased programme for bringing into existence the control organization and for putting into effect the prohibitions and limitations agreed upon.