ever-growing numbers of the world public now call for a freeze of nuclear arsenals. This idea could find one of its most important expressions in the mutual quantitative freeze of the strategic weapons of the Soviet Union and the United States and a maximum limitation of their modernization. Furthermore, the States represented at the meeting resolutely stand for the elaboration of a phased programme of nuclear dis­ armament and, within the framework of that programme, the elab­ oration of agreements on stopping the development and production of new systems of nuclear weapons and stopping the production of fissionable materials for the manufacture of various kinds of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. All this would create the pre­ requisites for progress in liquidating nuclear weapons. The States Parties to the Warsaw Treaties also consider it essen­ tial to accelerate the conclusion of agreements on a number of specific issues, and in this context, they appeal to all States to provide a new stimulus for negotiations, including negotiations in the Geneva Committee on Disarmament, with the following aims: -To elaborate in the shortest possible time a treaty on the com­ plete and general prohibition of nuclear-weapon tests; -To accelerate the elaboration of an international convention on banning and liquidating chemical weapons; -To begin elaborating a convention banning neutron weapons; -To open talks immediately on banning the deployment of weapons of any kind in outer space; -To complete as soon as possible the conclusion of an interna­ tional convention banning radiological weapons; -To speed up settlement of the question of strengthening secu­ rity guarantees for non-nuclear States. Continuing to attach great import~ce to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, the participants in the meeting are pleased at the recent increase in the number of States Parties to the Treaty on the 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be focused on international relations and disarmament, specifically discussing the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons. It also mentions the need for international agreements and negotiations on various issues related to disarmament. Given the scope and tone of the text, it is likely that it falls under the category of international relations and security.

**Category**
International relations, Science and technology