text: UNITED NATIONS General AssemblyDistr. GENERAL A/40/ 498 5 August 1985 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ARABIC/CHINESE/ ENGLISH/FRENCH/ RUSSIAN/SPANISH Fortieth session Item 65 (h) of the REVIE[^] OF ADOPTEDprovisional agenda* THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND DECISIONS BY THE GENERAL A.SSEMBLY AT ITS TENBH SPECIAL SESSION Prevention of nuclear war Report of the Secretary-General I. II. III.CONTENTS Paragraphs Page PART ONE INTRODUCTION L-7 8-78 79-88SURVEY OF DEVELOPMENTS CONCLUSION PART TWO REPLIES RECEI\TED FROI\,I GOVERNMENTS Argentina Australia Brunei Darussalam ... Bulgar ia ^/ 40/L50 .23 26 27 3l 31 85-2245L 1510-1In (E)A/ 40/ 4e8 Engl ish Page 2 CONTENTS (continued) Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Canada Czechoslovakia Denmark ........rirrro EgvPt France German Democratic Republic ... Germany, Federal Republic of Greece Hungary fraq . Italy Japan Ko n rrr Lesotho l"lex ico Netherlands .. Niger ia Norway Poland RonaniaPage 33 37 38 40 c*^.3 -eyq rrr Sweden41 43 44 46 50 5t >z 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 61 62 64 68 69 69 Tha ilandA/40/4e8 Eng 1 ish Page 3 CONTENTS (cont,inued) Turkey Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Union of Soviet Socialist Repubtics United Kingdom of Great Britain andNort,hern IrelandPage 70 70 73 76 77United States of Arnerica Viet Nam Yugoslavia79 81A/ 40/ 4s8 Engl ish Page 4 PART ONE I. INTRODUCTION 1. By its resolution 39/L48 P of 17 December 1984, the General Assembly, inter aliar r€guesled the Secretary-General to prepare a report on suitable steps to expeaite effective action for the prevention of nuclear war, to be transmitted to the Oonference on Disarmament and submitted to the Assenbly at its fortieth session, and invited Governments to submit to Ehe SecreEary-General, not later than I February 1985, their views on such steps so thaE they might be taken into account in Ehe preparation of that report. The present report was Prepared in accordance
analysis: This text appears to be a report submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, focusing on the implementation of recommendations and decisions related to the prevention of nuclear war. The content seems to be more related to international relations, politics, and disarmament rather than economic development, natural resources, or other specific sectors.