They reaffirm their support for a Conference on Security and Disarmament in Europe and for adoption at the Madrid meeting of a precise mandate for negotiations in an initial phase of confidence and security building measures that are militarily significant, binding, verifiable and applicable throughout the whole of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals. The Allies intend to play a constructive part at the forthcoming Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament. They hope that discussion there will take full account of the need for openness and adequate verification provisions in all areas of arms control and disarmament. In the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, the Allies will continue to work for concrete and verifiable agreements, including a total ban on all chemical weapons. The maintenance of the stable situation in and around Berlin remains for the Allies an essential factor in East-West relations.
Economic exchanges have an important role in the development of a stable East-West relationship.
In particular, they acknowledged the dangers involved in transfers of militarily relevant technology to the Warsaw Pact countries. The recovery of the economic health of Allied countries is essential and integral to their defence effort. Allied governments will work together both bilaterally and through competent organizations to further the prosperity of their peoples and the world economy. The Allies recognize the need for continued support for programmes intended to benefit the economies of the less favoured Allied partners in keeping with Article 2 of the North Atlantic Treaty. In view of the fundamental importance which they attach to the principle that the use of force to resolve international disputes should be resolutely opposed by the international community, the Allies condemn Argentina for its aggression against the Falkland Islands and Dependencies and deplore the fact that after more than six weeks she has still not withdrawn her forces in compliance with Mandatory Resolution 502 of the Security Council.