Draft of the Report of the Committee of 18 Nations of the General Assembly, transmitted by the American Side

Draft of the Report of the Committee of 18 Nations of the General Assembly, transmitted by the American side.^[1]

“4. …The text of the draft of the treaty presented below, which the Committee will transmit for review by the General Assembly of the Organization of United Nations has as its initial source text which was presented by the United States and Soviet Union on 17 August and 24 September 1965, respectively. Subsequently, on 24 August 1967 the Co-chairs from the Soviet Union and United States of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee introduced new text of the draft treaty for the review of the Committee. As a result of discussions having taken place in the Committee, the Co-chairs presented the reviewed text of the draft treaty on 18 January 1968. The text presented below contains further changes, made in light of discussion which took place in the current session of the Committee.

5. In the course of the last two sessions of the Committee, some delegations presented different specific proposals on the formulation of the treaty. As is apparent form the protocols of the Committee, not all delegations, of course, expressed identical points of view on corresponding texts of the draft treaty, as well as on the different corrections and proposals which were presented.

6. Discussion in the Committee has shown that all its participants are agreed that the treaty on non-proliferation should be concluded expeditiously and that it should promote international cooperation in the area of peaceful use of atomic energy and not create impediments for the participants of the treaty in the development of the peaceful use of atomic energy. All Committee members expressed a wish as well that the treaty on non-proliferation should enable the acceleration of progress in negotiations relating to effective measures to halt the nuclear arms race and towards the achievement of total and complete disarmament.

7. Relative to the issue of safeguards for non-nuclear countries, the Co-chairs presented to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee, the draft of a resolution which they propose be introduced for review by the Security Council of the Organization of United Nations. The draft resolution is contained in Attachment “A.” The Co-chairs also inform the Committee of declarations that they intend to make during the time of discussion of the draft resolution at the Security Council.

8. The proposals and working documents presented by all delegations and representatives of states not having members on the Committee are found in Attachment “B,” encompassing the meeting of the Committee in 1968, and in Attachment “C,” encompassing the two sessions of the Committee in 1967.

9. The Committee agreed to renew its work in the summer of 1968, following the completion of the continued session of the General Assembly. The date of commencement of the work of the Committee will be established by the Co-chairs upon consultation with all the members of the Committee.

10. This report will be transmitted by the Co-Chairs in the name of Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee.”

^[1] Translator’s Note: The following information is extracted from Protocol No. 73 of the CPSU CC Politburo meeting, finalized on 11 March 1968 and covering numerous resolutions made during 4 to 11 March 1968.