UN General Assembly
1972

156. An inescapable part of our endeavor to establish a durable system of international security is the effort to control and ultimately eliminate the destructive potential of nuclear and conventional armaments. Pakistan attaches the highest priority to both bilateral and multilateral efforts for disarmament. We have participated actively in the negotiations in the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament and acknowledge the earnest efforts of its members to bring about agreement on the elimination of chemical weapons. We hope that by next year the members would be able to present the world with such an achievement. 157. However, it cannot be denied that hitherto the concrete results of both the bilateral and multilateral negotiations have been meager. The issues with which we have been mainly concerned are not measures for disarmament, but for non-armament. Their most tangible outcome has been the establishment of an uneasy equilibrium between the two super-Powers.