of January 24 this year establishing the "Atomic Energy
Commission, and recalls that, in accordance with that res-
olution, the Commission should regard as its urgent objec-
tive the elimination from national armaments of atomic
weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass
destruction. It seems to usi that such a proposal should
meet no objection here.
In the second sentence of this paragraph of the Amer-
ican draft, besides a minor change in wording, we have
added at the end the following words: "and also that the
Security Council expedite consideration of a draft con-
vention for the prohibition of atomic weapons,'5 This ad-
dition eliminates the one-sidedness to be observed in the
text of the second paragraph of the American draft, by
recalling the necessity of considering a draft convention
for the prohibition of atomic weapons.
I should state here that the Soviet delegation feels we
should make a more precise declaration on the prohibition
of atomic weapons. This is done in the second paragraph
of the Soviet draft. However, the Soviet delegation is pre-
pared not to insist upon its original proposal, if the second
paragraph of the American proposal is adopted with the
changes of which I have just spoken.
The text of the third paragraph of the American pro-
posal is acceptable to us. We think, however, that the end
of this paragraph should be supplemented by the provi-
sions made in the third paragraph of 'the Soviet draft,
which, as we know, deals with the establishment of two
control commissions: one for control over the fulfilment of
the decision on the reduction of armaments, and the other
for control over the fulfilment of the decision prohibiting the
use of atomic energy for military purposes. So far as we
have been able to judge from the discussion, such a propos-
al should meet no objection here.
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