wish them every success in the performance of their tasks. This year the debate on disarmament-related items is of particular importance. This is because the enormous magnitude of the arms race, and above all the nuclear arms race, makes it more urgent than ever before to put an end to the present course of events, and to embark resolutely on the path of disarmament. Furthermore, the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations prompts us to take stock of the disarmament activities undertaken thus far in the United Nations and to reflect on ways and means of contributing in a better and more concrete manner to the cessation of the arms race and to the initiation of a real disarmament process. As regards the role played by our Organization, a positive element that shouM be stressed is the fact that the work of and the resolutions adopted over the years by the United Nations on disarmament problems have contributed to a great extent to an awareness of the growing threat that the arms race, and in particular the nuclear arms race, poses to the well-being and very survival of mankind. In 1978, for the first time in the history of disarmament negotiations, the international community reached a consensus on an international disarmament strategy, the immediate objective of which was to eliminate the danger of nuclear war and to implement measures aimed at putting an end to the arms race and at reversing the trend. I am referring to the first special session devoted to disarmament which, in its Final Document, established the objectives, the priorities and the principles for disarmament negotiations, as well as a programme of action,· the ultimate goal of MLG/jcl A/C.l/40/PV.S 53 (Mr. Marinescu, Romania) which was to achieve general and complete disarmament under effective international control. 
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