UN General Assembly
1969

not only prohibited the production and utilization of nuclear weapons but also required reduction of conventional armaments, with which thousands of people throughout the world are killed every day in “local” wars. 129. In the opinion of my delegation the General Assembly should assign specific tasks to the Committee on Disarmament. We believe that the Committee could direct most of its activity towards the complete prohibition of underground nuclear tests for military purposes, the demilitarization of the sea-bed and the ocean floor, and the prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons. Yugoslavia fully supports the draft agreement on the prohibition of underground nuclear-weapon tests submitted by Sweden to the Committee on Disarmament; for it is firmly convinced that the acceptance of that treaty would greatly encourage all other efforts towards disarmament. We also stress the need for a moratorium on the deployment of missile systems and the production of new weapons of mass destruction, as a specific measure to slow the arms race. 130. I shall not be saying anything new if I repeat that the