believe that the General Assembly and our Committee must at this session unanimously confirm the extreme importance of this question and demand that the Conference on Disarmament immediately move on to practical agreement on the text of a treaty. We continue to attach great importance to the idea of a complete freeze on nuclear weapons, first of all by the Soviet Union and the United States, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This idea is widely supported in the United Nations and by world public opinion. we welcome, in this connection, the readiness of the soviet Union to agree to some control measures in addition to national measures on a co-operative basis, taking into account previous negotiations to limit nuclear weapons. we agree that it is essential to take preventive measures to do away for ever with the.possibility of the use of nuclear weapons and the launching of a nuclear war. An effective measure in that direction the achievement of which depends entirely on the goodwill of the various States would be an undertaking not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. It is well known that in 1982 the soviet Union unilaterally undertook such a commitment. The Chinese People's Republic has undertaken a similar commitment. If the other nuclear Powers acted in the same way, the impending nuclear threat would be greatly reduced. There would then be a real possibility of achieving the total prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons on a treaty basis, as proposed by the non-aligned countries. MLG/ve A/C.l/40/PV.S 41 (Mr. Penazka, Czechoslovakia) we are of the view that non-nuclear-weapon States, when forbidding deployment on their territory, have a legitimate right to reliable international guarantees of their security which would protect them against the use of nuclear weapons. We are 
**Analysis**
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