UN General Assembly
1981

107. I wish also to take this opportunity to extend a most cordial welcome to Vanuatu, a friendly country in the South Pacific, on its admission to the United Nations. My country looks forward to promoting relations of friendship and cooperation with this new Member State, both within and outside the United Nations. 108. Today's world is characterized by flux and instability in political situations as well as in international economic relations. I should like to take up, first of all, the question of disarmament as a means of reversing the trend of world instability and setting the international community on a more solid foundation. 109. The awesome development in recent years of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems could lead to the danger of instantly bringing mankind to the brink of total annihilation. It is the most urgent task for the sake of world stability and development to halt the arms race and achieve disarmament, including the total elimination of nuclear weapons.