general stability and reducing the level of confrontation, as well as a turning point in efforts to achieve disarmament in all its aspects. In this connection, we greatly value the decision of the Soviet Union on a unilateral moratorium on nuclear explosions from 6 August 1985 to 1 January 1986, with the stipulation that the moratorium will continue if the United States also abstains from carrying out nuclear tests. This decision testifies to a most responsible approach and affords an excellent opportunity for a common solution of the problem of nuclear tests. we believe that the other country must finally respond to this initiative not with a dubious invitation to people to visit it in order to witness explosions but with the total cessation of testing. The future will show which of these two approaches best serves the cause of peace. With regard to reaching practical agreement at the Conference on Disarmament on the text of an international treaty, this year again the problem has been bogged down in sterile discussions. Some delegations have attempted to replace negotiations with obfuscations, the alleged need to discuss a possible programme of work, and so forth, as if this question had not been on the agenda as a fundamental and very urgent one for more than 30 years, and as if there had not been negotiations between three nuclear States which, before, they were interrupted, had reached a fairly decisive stage. BHS/plj A/C.l/40/PV. 8 38-40 (Mr. Penazka, Czechoslovakia) The results of 20 sessions of the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts to Consider International Co-operative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events and thus nuclear explosions, together with the control measures addi tio~ally proposed, would make it possible to verify observance of a treaty. Action on those results has also been postponed because they are claimed to be insufficient. We 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international relations and disarmament, specifically the Soviet Union's decision to impose a moratorium on nuclear explosions and the efforts to achieve disarmament in all its aspects. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting that the text is related to international negotiations and agreements. The mention of the Conference on Disarmament and the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts also supports this interpretation.

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International relations, Science and technology