UN General Assembly
1960

116. The conditions for rapid and large-scale disarmament were perhaps not the best. Nevertheless the Ten-Nation Committee seemed to be about to start on a realistic process of negotiation. We had hoped that the next step would be detailed discussions of a technical nature, and in particular of those elements of the general plans submitted by the parties where the differences appeared to be limited. We further hoped that an atmosphere of calm could be brought about, conducive to meaningful negotiations, without constant publicity and temptations to indulge in propaganda. We had noted with satisfaction that all parties to the disarmament talks had emphasized their intention to press on with the negotiations. It will be under- stood therefore, that when these negotiations were brought to collapse, it caused deep disappointment in my country, the more so since one of the parties was about to present new proposals in the light of the views that had already been advanced in the Committee.