the super-Powers will be able to conclude an arms control agreement which will take not only into account their interests but, more important, also restrain or even limit their ability to exercise force in the third world for their own ends. We have had too many examples of the use of conventional force by the super-Powers and/or their allies or surrogates allegedly in defence of their interests to ignore the urgent need to introduce some element of security for third-world countries, especially the small and weak. We dismiss this fact of life only at our peril. MLG/ve A/C.l/40/PV.4 57 (Mr. Cheang, Singapore) Therefore we should concentrate our efforts during this fortieth commemorative session on trying to resolve the issues of peace and security which are at present wreaking havoc on earth, although some would like to see us dissipating our energies by devoting our attention to the heavens. we should stress here that the danger we in the third world face emanates primarily from conventional conflicts, not from nuclear silos or space-based weapons. Hence, more emphasis ought to be placed in this Committee on debating conventional conflicts, the conventional arms race and the exporting of conventional weapons to the third world by the super-Powers and their allies. This would then reflect, I believe, the realities of the international political scene and not the pet projects of the super-Powers, especially those projects directed only at gaining cheap propaganda victories and cynically devoid of sincerity or feasibility. The super-Powers and their allies have for too long used this Committee as an arena for staging contests of strength and confrontation, using the issue of nuclear war and disarmament. Let us once and for all put a stop to these attempts to turn this Committee into another of the many international forums 
**Analysis**
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