We also congratulate the two Vice-Chairmen and the Rapporteur who, together with you, Mr. Chairman, are the officers of this Committee. I also want to mention how pleased we are to see that once again we have here with us the Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs. Lastly, may I reiterate once again today how much we appreciated the masterly way in which Ambassador souza e Silva guided our work last year, thus enhancing the reputation of the members of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament. This year we are commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Charter which, as representatives know, took place in San Francisco on 26 June 1945 in a solemn ceremony in which I had the privilege of participating. For someone unaware of the sequence of historic events it might seem extremely curious that a document which begins by emphasizing the determination of peoples "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" does not contain a single BG/5 A/C.l/40/PV.3 12 (Mr. Garcia Robles, Mexico) word about the only type of war that can endanger the survival of mankind -nuclear war. The explanation is very simple, since it was not until a few weeks later that nuclear bombs previously unknown to mankind sowed death and desolation on a scale hitherto undreamed of when they exploded over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and turned nuclear disarmament into one of the most serious concerns of all peoples and Governments and one of the international problems most urgently requiring a solution. Thus, the first resolution unanimously adopted by the General Assembly on 24 January 1946-resolution 1 (I) -was designed to"··· establish a Commission ••• to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy" and that resolution itself requested the Commission urgently to make "specific 
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