UN General Assembly
1992

concrete form in our domestic legislation. This year the Argentine Government issued a decree which regulates sensitive nuclear, chemical, bacteriological and missile exports, and incorporates major international agreements, such as the Missile-Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outlines and the so-called Australian "List of chemicals", into Argentina's legal system. It also stipulates that Argentina shall coordinate its actions in the area of 73 non-proliferation with other countries that have a similar approach. We plan to accept the invitation to join the group of nuclear-exporting countries in the near future. Naturally, if the main elements of the MTCR are incorporated into Argentine legislation, they would expect our country to become a member of that system. I should like to emphasize that, besides contributing effectively to non-proliferation, the new policy should serve to reopen Argentina's access to high technology through international cooperation. Its former ambiguous policy in this regard was a major obstacle in this field and was responsible, to a great extent, for the technological backwardness of our country, and for hindering procurement even of spare parts and minor supplies for our defence.