UN General Assembly
1977

128. Few problems create such near unanimity concerning the principle, and such discord concerning the solution. Why? The answer is simple. While everyone agrees in denouncing the risks of nuclear proliferation, the implementation of a policy of non-proliferation brings into conflict, as in other areas of international life, the haves and the have-nots ; those countries which already possess nuclear weapons, and therefore certain techniques and nuclear potentialities, confront those which have no nuclear weapons; those which have nuclear technology confront those which do not; while the producers of essential fuels confront those where no such fuels are found. 129. Respect for the principle of non-proliferation therefore impels a solution to these problems, and the internationalisation of nuclear resources. 130. All current and future civilian nuclear technology, as well as all necessary equipment and fuel, must be available equally to every one of us, without discrimination between those who possess nuclear weapons and those who not only do not yet possess them but have voluntarily renounced their use in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.