UN General Assembly
1960

6. I should like merely to mention the recent meeting of the United Nations Disarmament Commission, which came about, through the determination and astuteness of its Chairman, Mr. Luis Padilla Nervo, the Head of the Mexican delegation. He has earned the gratitude of all of us, inasmuch as, despite resistance at the outset from the Eastern countries, he succeeded in obtaining the agreement of both sides on a number of points. As we know, the Commission agreed [70th meeting] — and agreed unanimously — that the breakdown of the disarmament negotiations in the Ten-Nation Committee at Geneva was to be regretted. It also agreed to recommend that continued efforts for general and complete disarmament under effective international control should be made, and it recommended that the General Assembly give "earnest consideration" to the problem, reaffirming at the same time the "continuing and ultimate responsibility of the United Nations in the field of disarmament".