UN General Assembly
1982

Latin American coun¬tries. The Federal Government feels that the forth¬coming admission to the European Community of Portugal and Spain can help strengthen the Com¬munity's relations with Latin America even further. 151. We strongly support efforts to ensure that all countries respect the principle of non-alignment. We seek to promote and safeguard non-alignment through our development policy based on partnership. The Federal Republic of Germany encourages regional co-operation in the third world which serves to strengthen stability, independence and peace. 152. The Federal Government also fully supports efforts designed to secure world-wide implementation of the principle of the renunciation of force and of curbing the arms race, as well as agreements on confidence-building measures. It also directly backs up such efforts with initiatives of its own. We hope that the United Nations will take up and develop further our proposals for a code of conduct on confidence-building measures, which we submitted at the second special session devoted to disarmaments We expect the international symposium on confidence- building measures scheduled to be held in the Federal Republic of