most grievous crime against. hunanity. A condemnation by the General Assembly of the use of nuclear weapons would improve the siEuation for the subsequent elaboration of specific concrete agreements. The Soviet Union stated that its proposal obviously confirmed that it would not use nuclear weapons first, and ifthat example was followed by Ehe other nuclear Pouers there would be no nuclearwar. The Soviet Union also confirmed lhaL it would never use its nuclear weapons against those States which had forgone the acquisit.ion and production of nuclearA/40/498 English Page 11 weapons and did not have such weapons on their territory. But. if anon-nuclear-h'eapon State made its territory available for the deplqgnent of nucleari4teapons by another St.ate it should not expect !o have guarantees against aretaliatory nuclear strike. 26' Later in the session, the representative of the united states noted that anumber of delegations, in particular those of France, the Federal Republic ofGermany and Lhe Netherlands, had exposed inconsistencies between the draftresolution and other statettenls of the Soviet Union on the issue of the use of itsnuclear weapons- The united states also referred to other disarmament init.rativesof the Soviet union over the years, citing several cases to question the aim andreliability of soviet proposals and pledges. rn addition, the united statesemphasized that the maintenance of national security is the most important duty ofany Government to its people and that, lherefore, meaningful arns control becomesprudently feasible only when all States Ivlembers of Ehe United Nations strictlyadhere to their soremn obligation to abide by Articre 2, paragraph 4, of theCha rter .
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