UN General Assembly
1968

138. Yet another casualty is the credibility of the big Powers. The credibility gap of the big Powers has now widened. This will no doubt have an adverse effect on the value of assurances and undertakings given by the super-Powers to one another and to other States. At the resumed session of the: twenty-second General Assembly, my delegation joined the overwhelming majority of Member States in endorsing the Non-Proliferation Treaty. We did so because we believe that a halt to the proliferation of nuclear weapons would reduce the hazard of a nuclear holocaust and because it would spur efforts towards general and complete disarmament. Although we approve of the Treaty we can understand the disquiet felt by some Member States about the adequacy of the security assurances given to non-nuclear-weapon States, a disquiet which can only be heightened by recent events in Europe.