simple, radical and effective solution of the problem of banning the militarization of space: not to start the race of space weapons, to ban all types of space strike weapons, and to establish immediately a moratorium on their manufacture, testing and deployment. That would be in the interest of all peoples and States. The implementation of those proposals would create the necessary pre~ises for a radical reduction of nuclear weapons, not only the means of delivery but also nuclear charges, not only stategic weapons but also medium-range nuclear weapons. The close relationship of these questions is stressed in the Soviet-American agreement on the subject and goals of the Geneva negotiations on nuclear and space weapons. Their success is predicated upon strict adherence to the spirit and letter of the joint agreement in _all its parts. As for the USSR, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev said the following in a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 15 October: "We speak openly of the objectives of our international policy and ways of achieving them. In this respect, our policy is completely predictable; there is no mystery or obscurity in it. It is a policy based on the Leninist idea of peaceful coexistence of two opposing systems. Our premise is that only a stable and trustworthy policy is worthy of States and Parties conscious of their responsibi_l~~y for the fate of peace in our thoroughly contradictory century." BG/8 A/C.l/40/PV.S 29-30 (Mr. Kravets, Ukrainian SSR) The Ukrainian SSR thinks that during the current session of the General Assembly a signal contribution could be made to preventing the spread of the arms race to space. There is a concrete approach to the solution of these tasks in the proposals made at various times by the soviet Union to this international 
**Analysis**
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