text: to be entrusted to the Secretary-General has inverted the order of the elements, since the Secretary-General is given this responsibility in order to negotiate with the parties so that they may agree to mutually accept- able conditions for a cease-fire. 70. The* Council may well imagine the difficulties which the Secretary-General will have to cope with, particularly since my country has all along maintained that it is the United Kingdom which has not yet had the political will to sit down and negotiate in good faith on this matter. 71. We harbour the hope that perhaps this parenthe- sis which is about to be opened might lead to a situa- tion where the negotiation thus created would lead to reason and good sense which might restore peace to the western hemisphere. 72. I should also like to make brief reference to another element in which the parties are urged to co- operate with the Secretary-General with a view to ending the present hostilities. Hostilities must be understood to mean hostilities by the United King- dom as well as Argentina, not by just one country. By hostilities we must understand the term to refer to both parties. 73. I should now like to mention another element which is missing from this draft resolution. An appeal should have been made here to all the member States of the international community, especially to the members of the Council and more specifically to the permanent members of the Council, to abstain from supplying arms, ammunition and war material to the United Kingdom and to Argentina. I am referring to this because the press today states that a permanent member of the Security Council-not China, nor France, nor the Soviet Union-has sent missiles, ammunition and other war material to the United 
analysis: The text appears to be a diplomatic speech discussing the situation in the western hemisphere, specifically the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina. The speaker is urging the parties to negotiate and cooperate with the Secretary-General to achieve a cease-fire. The text also mentions the supply of arms and war material to the parties involved, indicating a focus on the military aspect of the conflict.