Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told the Review Conference , we share the widely felt disappointment about the lack of progress towards this goal, but we are fully committed to the implementation of Article VI and have consistently worked for constructive arms control negotiations. However, we believe firmly that nuclear disarmament must begin with effective bilateral negotiations between the two Powers which, between them, possess 95 per cent of the world's nuclear weapons. We warmly welcomed the resumption of talks between the United States and the soviet Union in Geneva in the hope that effective agreement - could be reached to prevent an arms race in space and to terminate it on Earth. BHS/gb A/C.l/40/PV.ll 27 (Mr. Cromartie, United Kingdom) The fact that the united states and the soviet union are now engaged in these negotiations on a more comprehensive basis than ever before is our main source of new hope for the future. We all have a common interest in their success. The United Kingdom con~inues to believe that these negotiations are the correct forum for discussing arms reduction by the super-Powers. My Government welcomes the initiative taken by the Soviet Union in putting forward its own proposals at these talks. We note that the United States had already made Proposals at Geneva. It is only through serious consideration by each side of the other's proposals that progress will be made. As Sir Geoffrey Howe said recently, the time has come to stop firing rhetorical missiles and to move the arms control debate back where it belongs, which is in confidential discussions over the negotiating table. We urge the soviet Union to recognize that unless there is a genuine negotiating process at Geneva, a genuine willingness to seek solutions to 
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