Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar, to affirm that a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty would be "the best proof of a genuine will to progress towards nuclear disarmament". This he said in his key address on disarmament on 12 December 1984, when he also stated the following: "I appeal for renewed efforts towards a comprehensive test-ban treaty. No multilateral agreement could have a greater effect in limiting subsequent improvements of nuclear weapons. A comprehensive test-ban treaty is the greatest proof of a genuine will to make progress in the direction of nuclear disarmament. Is it logical to develop new, increasingly lethal types of weapons, weapons that are increasingly complex from a technical standpoint, and increasingly difficult to verify? we are on the brink of leaving a decision on the future of mankind to automatic and fallible computer reactions. Talks on a comprehensive test ban have been left pending for too long now, and their value has been called into question. As with all negotiations on arms limitations, there will never, in the opinion of all the parties, be a perfect time to begin them. The time to resume those talks is now: there should be no further delay." BHS/ve A/C.l/ 40/PV. 3 23 (Mr. Garcia Robles, Mexico) We sincerely hope that, as a modest contribution to the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the Charter and as a tangible proof of their will to fulfil the commitments assumed in 1963 and 1968, the two nuclear-weapon Powers that have thus far been reluctant to do so-in other words, the United States and the United Kingdom -will lend their support to the resolution which will undoubtedly be adopted once again by the Assembly, and that this year the immediate background material will be paragraph 12, section B of the section on article VI of the Final 
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