nuclear safeguards, assistance and co-operation. In this area more than anywhere else, new ground was covered and considerable progress made. This applies in particular to such questions as export requirements, safeguards coverage and the development of a financial infrastructure for peaceful nuclear co-operation. This sort of progress is very important to the NPT regime as a whole. I also hope that it augurs well for an event of interest to this Committee, the forthcoming United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy. BS/sm A/C.l/40/PV.4 19-20 (Mr. Tornudd, Finland) Last summer, 10 years had passed since the 35 States participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) adopted, in the capital of Finland, the CSCE Final Act, and, as a part of it, a first set of specific confidence-building measures. They deal with prior notification and observation of certain military activities. In the course of the 10 years, the implementation of the agreed measures has become a matter of routine in the relations of the 35 States. Obviously limited in scope, they have not as such been enough to eliminate tension, let alone stop the arms race in Europe. But they have in a concrete way added to stability and predictability in Europe. Above all, they have marked the beginning of a process that is now going on in Stockholm. MLG/plj A/C.l/40/PV.4 21 (Mr. Tornudd, Finland) As a part of the follow-up to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Stockholm Conference has the task of designing a set of confidence and security building measures that in political and military significance go considerably beyond what was agreed in the Helsinki Final Act. The territory now being charted in Stockholm is new, and negotiations between the 35 States have proved challenging. While efforts towards arms limitation should be pursued both 
**Analysis**
The text appears to focus on international agreements, cooperation, and diplomacy related to nuclear energy and security. It mentions the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), highlighting the progress made in areas such as safeguards, export requirements, and financial infrastructure for peaceful nuclear cooperation. This suggests that the text is primarily concerned with international relations and security rather than economic development or other categories.

**Category**
International relations, Science and technology