UN General Assembly
1954

73. The proposal for the permanent control organ suggested for the second stage will also require clarification. The moment when its control measures will begin to operate is not specified. As I have indicated, it is unrealistic to expect nations to carry out prohibitions and reductions before agreement is reached on the nature and functions of the control organ which is to enforce those prohibitions and reductions. 74. I am not quite clear why it is necessary to have two systems of control. Why do we need a temporary commission for the first stage of disarmament? The Anglo-French proposals for a control organ, which would be in existence at the beginning of disarmament, which would gradually assume greater powers and functions, would seem to us to provide a far better guarantee for the observance of a disarmament treaty than the proposals for the two types of control organ now suggested by the Soviet Union. All these matters, however, we can explore in committee.