including a reduced reliance of security on nuclear weapons. Italy favours changes in the NATO strategy which would further enhance the defensive orientation always attached to it and which would be based on concepts of minimal deterrence and reduced deployment of advanced military forces. Italy is also determined to strive for a broader implementation of the political dimension of NATO as well as for the adoption of a joint declaration by NATO and the Warsaw Treaty countries, designed to register, in a solemn way, the establishment in Europe of a new political climate. What is currently at stake in Europe reaches far beyond such considerations of a strategic nature. We believe that the coming CSCE summit in Paris and the aim of a more adequate institutionalization of its process of co-operation represents the natural outcome of recent developments, as well as a broader implementation of the objectives laid down by the Helsinki signatories. Mr. President, we are confronted with the question of how to inject into the multilateral negotiations on disarmament the positive outcome of the favourable East-West trend, since the bilateral and multilateral components of disarmament are in fact somewhat connected to one another. Italy firmly believes that the Conference on Disarmament can contribute more effectively to the preservation of the interests individually represented by each one of us as well as of those of a wider collective nature of our common responsibility. It would seem in effect that a sort of additional responsibility is incumbent upon the 40 countries full members of the only existing negotiating forum on disarmament of a universal nature, the responsibility of being somehow depositaries of such far-reaching expectations beyond this historic chamber. For this reason also we welcome with great satisfaction the growing participation in its activities of a number of countries with the status of observers.
**Analysis**
The text discusses the strategic and political aspects of international relations, specifically in the context of NATO and disarmament. It emphasizes the importance of cooperation and dialogue between countries, particularly in the European context. The text also touches on the idea of institutionalization and the role of the Conference on Disarmament.

**Category**
International relations, Politics