A/32/PV.100 General Assembly

53.  World Disarmament Conference: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the World Disannmnent Conference REPORT OF THE FIRST COMMITTEE (A/32/382) 1. Mr. CORREA (Mexico), Rapporteur of the First Com- mittee (interpretation from Spanish): I have the honour to present to the General Assembly the reports on the work of the First Committee relating to agenda items 33, 34, 38 to 49 and 51 to 53 of the thirty-second regular session of the General Assembly. The reports are contained in documents A/32/367 to A/32/382. 3. The General Assembly will have noted that in para- graph 3 of each report that I am now submitting for consideration reference is made to an index of statements made by delegations on the disarmament items, which will be distributed as document A/32/383. That index, which was prepared by the Rapporteur on the basis of the material placed at his disposal by the United Nations Centre for Disarmament, is designed solely to provide delegations with a guide of the many statements made during the general debate and dUring the consideration of the draft resolutions on disarmament questions in the First Com- mittee. 4. The fact that the First Committee, as in past years, had a combined debate in which delegations could refer any number of times to one, several or all disarmament items made it necessary, in the Rapporteur's view, to have a similar index to the one included three years ago in the report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarma- ment. 5. In document A/32/383, statements of delegations are classified under each of the disarmament items included in the agenda of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly, with the exception of statements on agenda items 40 and 49, relating to the cessation of nuclear weapons tests, which are grouped under a single heading and those connected with the items entitled "Special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament" and "General and complete disarmament", which in addi- tion to being classified under these items are also listed under the title of each draft resolution on those subjects. 6. The Rapporteur alone is responsible for document A/32/383. 7. La8tly, I should like to draw the General Assembly's attention to paragraph 16 of the report on agenda item 51 on general and complete dis~rmament, wherein it is stated that the amendment put forward by the delegation ofSaudi Arabia to draft resolution A/C.1/32/L.13 was not put to the vote on the understanaing that the Office of Public Information of the United Nations would carry out a preliminary research work on the project of making a United Nations film showing impartially the enormous devastation caused by the last world war and by subsequent wars and which would also highlight the human tragedy-and untold suffering resulting from such wars, so that that United Nations film might be shown in schools and universities and on television throughout the world in the hope of creating true aversion for all wars in the future, as well as on the understanding that the Secretary-General should report to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session on the possibility of producing such a film. Pursua17l to role 66 of the roles of procedure, it was decided not to discuss the reports of the First Committee. 10. First of all, we wish to point out that the number of draft resobltions on disarmament has been increasing with every passing year and, indeed, the Umted Nations archives are being ftlled with volumes of these resolutions. But the bitter truth is that the more disarmament is spoken of, the more new types and series of weapons are being produced by the two imperialist super-Powers and the bigger their war arsenals grow. The reality is such that the more there is talk of disarmam~nt,the more frenzied the armaments ract. becomes and the bigger the war budgets. 11. The imperialist Powers-in the first place, the two imperialist super-Powers-pay no heed to, and have not cared in the slightest about, any resolution or other document on disarmament. On the contrary, the two super-Powers-the United States and the Soviet Union- have tried to use and exploit the prolonged discussions aboui disarmament and the resolutions related to them for their own political purposes and goals. 12. It is likewise true that the two imperialist super- Powers leave no stone untumed so as to incorporate in these draft resolutions such formulations and ideas as would serve their purposes directly; while at the same time they obstruct the efforts being made by the democratic and progressive States properly and correctly to express in United Nations documents the real state of affairs with regard to the disarmament issues. 13. In view of all the aforesaid considerations, the delegation ofthe People's Socialist Republic of Albania will vote against the draft resolutions contained in documents A/32/371, A{32/377 (draft resolutions A and B), A/32/378 and A{32/380 (draft resolutions F and G), and it will not participate in the voting on the rest of the draft resolutions. 14. The Albanian delegation would like also to make it unequivocally clear that it will not associate itself with any kind of consensus that may be reached on some of the draft resolutions.