disarmament has been to halt and reverse the nuclear-arms race, to stop the production of nuclear weapons and to achieve their eventual elimination. "In this connexion, a comprehensive test ban is regarded as the first and most urgent step towards a cessation of the nuclear-arms race, in particular, as regards its qualitative aspects. "A comprehensive test ban could serve as an important measure of the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, both vertical and horizontal. "A comprehensive test ban would have a major arms limitation impact in that it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the nuclear-weapon States parties to the treaty to develop new designs of nuclear weapons and would also place constraints on the modification of existing weapon designs. "In the view of the parties to the non-proliferation Treaty, a comprehensive test ban would reinforce the Treaty by demonstrating the awareness of the major nuclear Powers of the legal obligation imposed under JSM/bo A/C.l/40/PV. 3 18 (Mr. Garcia Robles, Mexico) the Treaty to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date." (A/35/257, paras. 151, 152, 155, 156, 158) The means of verification that already exist are sufficient to guarantee the implementation of a comprehensive nuclear-weapon-test ban and the alleged absence of such means is, as has been stated with conunendable sincerity by the General Assembly in its resolution 39/52 of last year, " ••• nothing but an excuse for further development and refinement of nuclear weapons". (General Assembly resolution 3 9/52, third preambular paragraph) Among the many testimonies that could be adduced to confirm what I have just stated, we might recall just the two following: first, that of Kurt Waldheim, then Secretary-General of the United Nations; when he addressed the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, at its 1972 inaugural meeting, categorically stated: 
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