UN General Assembly
1971

97. The twenty-fifth session of the United Nations was very significant because of the declarations adopted. At least some of them have blazed new trails in the history of international relations: the Strategy for the Second Development Decade, the Declaration on the principles on the sea-bed, the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security [resolution 2734 (XXV)] and the resolution on basic principles for the protection of civilian populations in armed conflicts [resolution 2675 (XXV)]. 98. But the twenty-sixth regular session of the General Assembly is one in which the United Nations might well take a new tack in specific areas. It may well be that, at the present session, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, the first concrete steps towards disarmament may be taken, in this case as far as biological weapons are concerned, because what has occurred thus far with all