willingness to engage in productive negotiations in good faith for the cessation of the arms race. We meet this year in a more propitious climate for our deliberations. The announcement on 8 January of this year of an agreement by the United States and the USSR, which possess 95 per cent of the world's total nuclear arsenals, to engage in bilateral negotiations has created a better atmosphere which might yet save the 1980s from being consigned to history as the 8lost decade of disarmament" for its singular absence of any disarmament agreements so far. After two rounds of unproductive debate, new proposals have been submitted at the third round now in progress in Geneva, renewing our hope of seeing the realization of the immediate NR/plj A/C.l/ 40/PV. 9 48 (Mr. Dhanapala, Sri Lanka) objective of the negotiations, to work out effective agreements aimed at preventing an arms race in space and terminating it on Earth and limiting and reducing nuclear arms and at strengthening strategic stability, and the ultimate goal of the complete elimination of nuclear arms everywhere. The forthcoming summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva enhances our hope that a process of fruitful negotiations has finally been launched. we note the decision of the USSR unilaterally to stop nuclear explosions from the anniversary of the Hiroshima holocaust on 6 August until l January 1986, with the possibility of extending the moratorium beyond that date if the United States joins the moratorium on nuclear testing. The reports of significant proposals of arms reductions are also encouraging, and the negotiating table is no longer bare. In this context, we support the proposal made here that an appeal should be addressed to the super-Powers to reach firm agreements in their talks in the interest of global peace and security. 
**Analysis**
This text appears to be discussing international relations, specifically the topic of disarmament and arms control between the United States and the USSR. The language used is formal and diplomatic, indicating that the text is likely an official document or speech. The text also mentions the objective of the negotiations, which is to work out effective agreements aimed at preventing an arms race in space and terminating it on Earth and limiting and reducing nuclear arms.

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