States assurances Ehat they would not be the target of the use of nuclearqteaPons or of the lhreaE of their use and the use of force in general would reinforce the confidence of States that nuclear weapons will not be used as a means of pressure or intimidat.ion. That would be an act ofequity and of justice towards the non-nuclear-weapon States which, having renounced the nuclear option, have every right to obtain firm security guarantees fron the nuclear-lreapon States. Such a step would at the sarne time be a major contribution to Lhe non-proliferation of nuclear weapons an the promotion of the goal of nuclear disarmament. (iv) Measures to prevenL the outbreak of a nuclear conflict, inadvertently or as the result of an accident. The stockpiling of enormous quantities of nuclear tteapons, their continual improvemenE and their deployment in more and nore regions of the globe have brought about a real increase in Ehe danger that a nuclear war could break out inadvertently or as the resultof an accident. In order to reduce and eliminaEe this Erave danger, agreement nust be reached, particularly among the nuclear-weapon SEates, on netd measures to improve communicaEion and rapid consultation amongStates' particularly in emergencies. A general way of reducing Ehethreat of a nuclear conflict would be to further within the Uniled Nations the concept of confidence-building measures among StaEes and also suiEable mechanisms for promoting such measures inLernaEionally. The 1984 Stockholm Conference on Confidence- and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe has a special role to play in Ehat connection. Attainment, of the Eoal seE, for that Conference - Ehe adoption of a set of confidence- and security-building measures designed to reduce the risk ofmilitary confrontation in Europe - would be an achievement of the first
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