text: 7 - This concept is clearly stated in a joint Soviet-United states docunent whichstresses that the aim of the negotiations will be to work out effective agreementsdesigned to avert the arms race in outer space and end it on earth, to linit andreduce nuclear leeapons and to strengthen strategic stability.A/40/49e English Page 72 8. The Ukrainian SSR firmly believes that the States ngotiations, and of all efforts to lirnitconplete elimination of nuclear weapons.final outcome of the Soviet-United and reduce treapons, must be the 9. A good basis for a radical solution to the question of removing the threat of nuclear war is available in the specific proposals which the Soviet Union and the other socialist States bave submitted for consideration to the Conference on Disarmament. In this connection, we support the General Assemblyts reguest that the Conference on Disarmanent should undertake as a natter of priority, negotiations with a view to achieving agreenent on practical measures for theprevention of nuclear \rar and should establish an ad hoc comnittee for that purpose. 10. Among the effective practical steps which would help the solution of the taskof preventing nuclear \rar, the achievement of an agreenent between the nuclear States on the mutual recognition of specific norms in their relations with each other would be especialty significant. As everyone knohrs, the Soviet Union has nade specific proposals regarding the content of such norms. 1I. Of continually growing importance is the guestion of the renunciation of first use of nuclear weapons by all States possessing thern. Such eommitments could be undertaken unilaterally, as was done, for example, by the Soviet Union back in 1982. ff the other nuclear Powers, which have not yet done so, agreed to that step, as they were called upon to do by the General Assembly, the world situation
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