UN General Assembly
1992

the United States and the former Soviet Union, is carried into the multilateral arms control process. We must redouble our efforts to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, and the threat of nuclear war. We must work harder to obtain universal membership of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and ensure its indefinite extension unamended in 1995. We should also continue the progress that has been made since the Gulf War to strengthen the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and tighten export controls on nuclear and nuclear-related dual-use items. We should build on the moratorium on nuclear testing advanced by Russia and France. And I urge Member States to support once again the draft resolution that Australia will co-sponsor at this session on the comprehensive test-ban treaty. Increased transparency in military activities should continue to be a key objective for all Members of the General Assembly. I regard the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms Transfers, established by the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly, as an important step in this