UN General Assembly
1970

95. The United Nations has had some success in approaching the solution of the problems of disarmament. Although the arms race, imposed on the world by the imperialist forces, continues and ever more countries, including the developing countries, are being drawn in, we can say that a number of agreements concluded on the initiative of the Soviet Union have had a good effect on the limitation of the arms race. Such agreements are: the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water; the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies [resolution 2222 (XXI)], which prohibits the placing of nuclear weapons and other means of mass destruction in outer space and provides for the demilitarization of the celestial bodies; the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [resolution 2373 (XXII)] and a number of other agreements. We approve the draft treaty prepared by the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament on the prohibition of the emplacement of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the seabed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof.8 The delegation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic is in favor of an early conclusion of a convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and on the destruction of such weapons, submitted by the socialist countries including our own Republic.9