Last July the socialist countries, including the USSR, submitted to the Conference on Disarmament a working paper on the subject which, taking into account the porposals of many States, expresses their willingness to resolve these two issues by concluding either separate agreements on each one or a single international legal instrument. Our proposals on the urgent issues of disarmament have never been, and are not now, confined to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. The soviet Union continues to be a firm supporter of th~ limitation and reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces. It is our continuing belief that it is not only senseless but also dangerous to raise higher and higher the level of approximate parity that exists in the field of conventional armaments and armed forces between the USSR and the United States, between the Warsaw Treaty countrie s and those of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NA'ID). JVM/9 A/C.l/40/PV.S 31 (Mr. Petrovsky, USSR) The correctness of our approach is especially evident in the present circumstances, when the United States and NATO, anxious to secure military superiority, are launching a new round in the arms race in both the nuclear and conventional fields. In effect, NATO is now carrying out a long-term programme of developing highly sophisticated conventional weapons whose destructive power is close to that of nuclear arms and has adopted an aggressive doctrine concerning their use. In this field just like in the field of nuclear weapons, reliance on force clearly prevails over a readiness for mutually acceptable agreements. At the same time, as demonstrated by the Vienna negotiations on the mutual reduction of armed forces and armaments in Central Europe, objective prerequisites for such agreements do exist. At the Vienna talks we propose to begin the reduction of the 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the disarmament of nuclear and conventional weapons, and the proposal of the Soviet Union to limit and reduce armed forces and armaments. It seems to be related to international relations, security, and defense, which are not explicitly listed among the categories. However, given the focus on disarmament and the context of international negotiations, it is likely that the text is related to international relations and security.

**Category**
International relations, Defense