onacomplexofquestions concerning spaceandnuclear armswiththesequestions considered andresolved intheirinterrelationship. Itexpected this development tohaveapositive effectontheworkoftheConference andcalled uponthetwonegotiating parties tobearconstantly inmindthatnotonlytheir national interests butalsothevitalinterests ofallthepeoplesoftheworld wereatstake.Iturgedallmemmbers oftheConference, inparticular the nuclear-weapon States, tomakefulluseoftheConference asanegotiating forum, 30thatrealprogress ondisarmament couldfinally bemade.TheGroupof21 considered thatbilateral andmultilateral negotiations ondisarmament should facilitate andcomplement, ratherthanhinderorpreclude, eachother. Furthermore, initsview,theConference shouldbekeptappropriately informed ofallstepsinthisfieldwithout prejudice totheprogress ofthe negotiations. MembersoftheGroupof21welcomed andsupported theDelhi Declaration issuedbytheHeadsofStateorGovernment ofArgentina, Greece, India,MexIco, SwedenandTanzania, on28January 1985,inwhichthey reiterated theirappealtothenuclear-weapon Statesforanall-embracing halttothetesting, production anddeployment ofnuclear weapons andtheir delivery systems Which,intheirview,shouldbefollowed immediately by substantial reductions innuclear forces, leadingtothecomplete elimination ofnuclear weapons andthefinalgoalofgeneral andcomplete disarmament. 61.AGroupofSocialist Statesunderlined theimportance theyattached to themultilateral negotiations intheConference onDisarmament forthecessation ofthenuclear armsraceandnuclear disarmament. Theyexpressed appreciation forthecommencement ofbilateral negotiations between theUnionofSoviet Socialist Republics andtheUnitedStatesofAmerica asasignificant step thatheldouttheprospect ofreaching agreement toprevent anarmsracein outerspaceandterminating itonEarth. Theyemphasized that,asstatedin thejointstatement of8January, thesubjectofthenegotiations wouldbe acomplexofquestions concerning space andnuclear arms-bothstrategic andintermediate-range -withallthesequestions considered andresolved .-21-"Ir Iintheirinterrelationship. Theyalsostressed thatultimately the negotiations, justasefforts ingeneral tolimitandreducearms,should leadtothecomplete elimination ofnuclear armseverywhere. Atthesametime, thesocialist countries firmlybelieved that,inaccordance withparagraph 120 oftheFinalDocument ofthefirstspecial session oftheGeneral Assembly devoted todisarmament, theConference onDisarmament, inwhichallfive nuolear-weapon Stateswererepresented, wastheappropriate forumforthe conduct ofcomprehensive negotiations aimedatremoving thenuclear threat. Theyexpressed theviewthatbilateral andmultilateral negotiations werenot mutually exclusive butshouldcomplement andstimulate eachother. Therefore, theyreiterated theirproposal fortheestablishment ofanadhoccommittee. Intheirview,anuclear disarmament programme, asreflected inthedraft mandate inCD/526, onastep-by-step basisandinaccordance withthe principle ofequality andequalsecurity, shouldenvisage thereduction of nuclear weaponsuntiltheyhadbeencompletely eliminated inalltheirforms. Inthiscontext theurgency oftheprohibition ofthenuclear neutron weapon wasunderlined. Theyalsoconsidered thataquantitative andqualitative freezeofnuclear weapons wouldconstitute astarting pointforthereduction ofsuchweaponsuntiltheircomplete elimination. Theyexpressed theirfull support fortheDelhiDeclaration whichwascompletely consonant withthe policyoftheirGovernments. 62.TheGroupofWestern States, including threenuclear-weapon States, notedwithsatisfaction theinitiation ofbilateral negotiations between the UnionofSovietSocialist Republics andtheUnitedStatesofAmerica, the SUbject ofwhichnegotiations wasacomplex ofquestions concerning spaceand nuclear arms-bothstrategic andintermediate-range -withallthese questions considered andresolved intheirinterrelationship. Asstatedin thejointUnitedStates-Soviet statement of8January1985,theobjective ofthenegotiations wouldbetoworkouteffective agreements aimedatpreventing anarmsraceinspaceandterminating itonearth,atlimiting andreducing nuclear arms,andatstrengthening strategic stability. Thestatement also notedthatthesidesbelieved thatthesenegotiations, justasefforts in general tolimitandreducearms,shouldleadtothecomplete elimination of nuclear armseverywhere. They ~eiterated theviewthatsuchnegotiations offered thebestmeansatpres~nt forachieving progress inthefieldof
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