A/38/PV.103 General Assembly

Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1983 — Session 38, Meeting 103 — UN Document ↗

THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION
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59.  Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on th~ Indian Ocean (concluded)* "'Resumed from the 97th meeting.

Tuesday, 20 December 1983,
at 11.20 a.m.

62.  General and complete disarmament (concluded)* (a) Report of the Disarmament Commission; {b) Report of the Committee on Disarmament; (c) Study on conventional disarmament: report of the Secretary-General; (d) Non-stationing of nuclear weapons on the territories of States where there are no such weapons at pres- ent: report of the Committee on Disarmameht; (e) Independent Commission on Disarmament and Secu- rity Issues: report of the Disarmament Commission; (f) IJrohibition of the development, production, stock- piling and use of radiological weapons: report of the Committee on Disarmament; (g) Prevention of an arms race in outer space and prohi- bition of anti-satellite systems: report of the Com- mittee on Disarmament; (h) Prohibition of the production of fissionable material for weapons purposes: report of the Committee on Disarmament; (l) Measures to provide objective information on mili- tary capabilities: report of the Secretary-General; (j) Institutional arrangements relating to the process of disarmament: (i) Report of the Committee on Disarmament; (ii) Report of the Secretary-General; (Hi) Report of the Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

The President [Spanish] #7245
I call on the representative of Bulgaria to speak on a point of order. 2. Mr. GARVALOV (Bulgaria): I should like to make a form?l proposal concerning a draft resolution now before the General Assembly which is contained in para- graph 53 of document A/38/628. I refer specifically to draft resolution Q, entitled "Bilateral nuclear-arms nego- tiations". The draft was before the First Committee in document A/C.1I38/L.65/Rev.l, of which my delega- tion was a sponsor. 3. When that draft resolution was submitted in the First Committee, during the crucial stage of the bilateral nego- tiations on medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, it und/~rgroundnuclear explosions for peaceful purposes,3 which had been signed by three American presidents, representing both the Democratic and Republican parties. 50. Events at the present session also clearly illustrate the attitude of the United States towards efforts for arms limitation. The United States has voted against 30 reso- lutions on disarmament matters, against the nuclear- weapons freeze, against talks on a nuc!ear-weapons-test ban, against talks on the prevention of an arms race in outer space, against talks on the restriction of naval weapons, and so forth. 51. Ifthis is the United States approach to arms restric- tion, it is not difficult to understand why the United States has stymied the talks on nuclear-weapons limitation in Europe. By deploying Pershing and cruise missiles, it has created a fundamentally new situation, so much so that ~:5. I call on the representative of the United Kingdom. 76. Mr. BERMAN (United Kingdom): Mr. President, may I begin these brief remarks by thanking you very much for the guidance you gave in response to the ques- tion raised by my delegation at an earlier stage in the meeting. I apologize for having taken the time of the plenary then, but I think that the confusion began to arise in the mind of my delegation and perhaps others because the representative of Bulgaria moved his mction before we had come to the particular agenda item to which it related. 77. However, the little time that we have had in between has given us all the opportunity to consider the position. It certainly has given my delegation the opportunity to find the relevant passage in the NATO communique of 9 December which I mentioned then and which reads as follows: "The uWmate goal remains that there should be neither Soviet nor United States land-based, long-range INF missiles. The deployment of U.S. missiles can be halted or reversed by concrete results at the negotiating table. In this spirit 'tie wish to see an early resumption of the INF negotiations which the Soviet Union has discontinued." 78. My delegation can well see that in those circum- stances the Bulgarian delegation is somewhat embarras- sed. That embarrassment, is, of course, a matter between them and their consciences. What is of more concern to my delegation is the possible embarrassement to the Assembly'as a whole if it is asked to proceed to a vote on the Bulgarian procedural amendment, as we have now al"fived at a procedural situation in which it is quite clear that whether or not logic dictates this, the Bulgarian proposal relates only to draft resolution Q. I wish to make it clear that my delegation for its part does not wish to insist upQn a vote on that procedural motion and is pre- pared to see it adopted on the assumption that this is the course which the General Assembly would prefer to take. 79. The PRESIDENT (interpretation from Spanish): I .call on the representative of Bulgaria. Th,~ Assembly will now take a decision on draft resolu- tion B. The report of the Fifth Committee on the adminis- trative and financial implications of this draft resolution is contained in document A/38/759. A recorded vote has been requested. A recorded vote was taken. In favour: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bel- gium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burundi, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Demo- cratic Kampuchea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Domin- ican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Federal Republic of, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Ire- land, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mada- gascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauri- tania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philip- pines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suri- name, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emir- ates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Cameroon, United States of America, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugo- slavia, Zaire. 113. The Assembly will firs" vote Ofl draft resolution A, entitled "Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons". A recorded vote has been requested. A recorded vote was taken. In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cape Verde, Cen- tral African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Yemen, Dominica, Ecua- dor, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi,? Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozam- bique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paki- stan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Sene- gal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, SWl:j.ziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuni- sia, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Cameroon, United Republic of Tan- zania, Upper Volta, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Against: United States of America. Abstaining: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, Colom- bia, Costa Rica, Democratic Kampuchea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominca.n Republic, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Greece, Guate- mala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Neth- erlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Seychelles, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, I 'Reaffirms its call to all States to refrain from any adon that could impede negotiations on the prohibi- tion of chemical weapons and specifically to refrain from the production and deployment of binary and other new types of chemical weapons, as well as from stationing chemical weapons on the territory of other States." And in the second preambular paragraph of draft resolu- tion B we read: "Reaffirming the necessity of strict observance by all States ofthe principles and objectives ofthe Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poi- sonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925 ...". Co~ta Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Kampuchea. Democratic Yemen, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, : n:.'l1inican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, ~;: .10pia, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ger- man Democratic Republic, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hun- gary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauri- tius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal,
Against: None. Abstaining: Bahrain, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. Draft resolution A was adopted by 138 votes to none, with 8 abstentions (resolution 38/188 Aj. 125. The PRESIDENT (interpretation from Spanish): Draft resolution B is entitled "Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplace- ment of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof". The First Committee adopted draft
Against: None. Abstaining: Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, China, Cuba, CzecllOslovakia, France, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Poland, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America) Viet Nam. Draft resolution E was adopted by 124 votes to none, with 23 abstentions (resolution 38/188 E). 129. The PRESIDENT (interpretationfrom Spanish): Draft resolution F is entitled "Curbing the naval arms race: limitation and reduction of naval armaments, exten- sion of confidence-building measures to seas and oceans" . A recorded vote has been requested. A recorded vote was taken. In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Antigua and Bar- buda, Argentina, Bahrain, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bul- garia, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cape Verde, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czecho- slovakia, Democratic Yemen, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fin- land, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras,S Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malaysia,S Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Prin- cipe, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Cameroon, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Against: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America. Abstaining: Angola, Austria, Bahamas, Bangiadesh, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Chad, Chile, Costa Rica, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Saint Lucia, Saint Vin- cent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Togo, Zaire. Draft resolution F was adopted by 73 votes to 19, with 44 abstentions (resolution 38/188 F).R

67.  Implementation of the collective security provisions of the Charter of the United Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security: report of the Security Council 135. Mr. GOYEN-ALVEZ (Uruguay), Rapporteur of the First Committee (interpretation from Spanish): It is an honour for me to introduce to the General Assem- bly the reports of the First Committee on its work con- cerning agenda items 65,66 and 67. One of these items, 155. With regard to our position on disarmament reso- lutions in general, as in the past, the Albanian delegation did not participate in the voting process. At the same time, we should like to point out that our delegation dissociates itself from the consensus in respect of resolu- tions adopted by consensus or without a vote. 156. As we have explained before and as is wen known, our position is linked to the very fact that those resolu- tions-which have a tendency to increase in number each year-have not had any positive effect on disarmament. On the contrary, by hiding behind those resolutions the super-Powers and other imperialist Powers have con- tinued to intensify the unbridled arms race and ~heir preparations for war. In addition, we have reservations on some of their texts and formulations. We have expressed those reservations in the past and in the First Committee at this session of the General Assembly. 157. Nevertheless, we cannot refrain from pointing out that our delegation voted in favour of the draft resolu- tions contained in documents A/38/624, on the denucle- arization of Africa; A/38/632, on the nuclear armament of Israel; and A/38/625, on the creation of nuclear- weapon-free zone in the Middle E~st region. Our positive vote for those draft resolutions is linked with our deter- mined position in support of the struggle of the African peoples against the racist regime of South Africa and of the Arab peoples against the Israeli Zionists. How- ever, we should like to make it clear that our support for those draft resolutions does not mean that we have no reservations. At the same time, that does not affect our unchangeable and principled positipn regarding the crea- tion of so-called zones of peace free of nuclear weapons.

The meeting rose at 1.20 p.m.