3. In this connection, the German Democratic Republic strongly welcomes the jointSoviet Union-United States declaration of 8 January 1985 on the beginning of newnegotiations on a complex of guestions concerning space and nuclear weapons, bothstrategic and intermediate range, with all the questions considered and resolved inEheir interrelationship. It i.s nobr essential to scrupulously implement. theagreenent reached and to strictly observe all iEs components in practice. 4- The German Democratic Republic shares the view of a larEe number of Statesbhat the prevention of an arms race in outer space is inseparably connected withsteps for the limitation and reduct,ion of strategic armaments and ofintermediate-range nuclear forces. The point is not to allow arms competition inouter space before it begins and to put an end to it on the Earth. 5. Urgent measures of an international legal and naterial nature to reduce thedanger of a nuclear catastrophe are necessary and feasible. They wouLdr at lhesame time' pave the way for ending the nuclear-arms race and for nucleardisarmament. 6. Efforts for the solution of this overriding global problem rightly occupy acentral place in the work of the United Nations and of the Conference onDisarmament- Never before has the General Assembly so unequivocally voted for t,heavoidance of nuclear war and the prevention of an arms race in outer space as itdid at its thirty-ninth session. 7. The German Democratic Republic co-sponsored the rel.evant General Assemblyresolution 39/L48 P, in which the Conference on Disarmament is requested ,rto undertake, as a matter of the highest priority, negotiations with a view toachieving agreement on appropriate and practical measures for the prevention ofnuclear war and to establish for chat purpose an ad hoc committee on the subject at.the beginning of its 1985 session".A/ 40/ 498 Engtish Page 45 8. The German Democratic Republic sponsored resolution 3g/L48 D on the non-use of
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