UN General Assembly
1978

333. Nepal has been an ardent champion of peace in the world and has supported establishment of "zones of peace". We lent our support to the 1971 Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace resolution 2832 (XXVI)]. We call upon the great Powers to speed up their negotiations for the purpose of implementing the provisions of that General Assembly resolution. We have supported the proposal of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality of the Association of South East Asian Nations. Nepal's own proposal for a zone of peace, as put forward by His Majesty King Birendra three years ago, is motivated by our deep-seated desire to institutionalize peace for accelerated national development through the maximum mobilization of our limited resources.