the limitation oif strategic and other weapons. 141. I s6ould like to emphasise another equally dg- n&ant factor: [the admission ‘of <the Federa;l Repub%c of Germany anld the German Demooratic Reoublic to mernb~einshin of the United Nations is specifically in ac- cordance with the objective ,of utivers&y, which has uoasisteatly bleen Id’efmdmed with such zeal within this Counicil. 142. Folr thle reasonis that I have given and on the instructions of my Government. we have supported the rersohtion in do~ouunent S/10957. 143. On b’ehalf SoC the Gavernment ,amd ,peopIe of Panama anId on mv own behalf, I w&come the pleni- poaenbiaries Iof (the German States who are present here and I exnresis my si,ncere hone thatt thle entry into the United Nati8oo.s of tha ~count~i~es they %represjent will sig- nifv a nos&ive step forward in the sielarch for peace and n~o~sple&v for mankind. I request them .to convey the exupession ‘of thewe sincere d,es$res ‘of Pan,ama to their respective Governments and peoples. 144.. In conolusioln, I !shonlsd like on &is occasion to offer loilllr sincere co-operation to the future ,delegations o;E the Federal Republic of Germany larval the German Dlemolcrartic Repnb&ic in everything ,$nsllt: rdabes to #the tdcs and parp&s of the U&ted Nations. 145. Mr. ODERO-JOWI (Kenya): The approval by con3eas~s of the draft !l?esO~urti~ concstig ;chie ad- mission of the two Gmmaa States ~to membership of the Uni&l Nation& ma&s lthe end d an era of rivalry and lack of undastanding charaateristic of tile negative hangover of the plr&-S~eoond Wodd War era. The ad- mission 104 ,the Gcrmaa Democmtic Republic and the Federal Republk of Germany to membership of the Uni;ted Nations will opein thfe way to l&e achievement of greaker intie033tiomtal W-operation in s&ing inter0a- tional prob4ems in consonance with the purposes and 