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September 5, 1968

Draft of the Resolution on the Issue of Concluding a Convention on Prohibiting the Use of Nuclear Weapons

Draft resolution asking for the member states of the 18 Nation Committee on Disarmament to consider a positive resolution of the issue on prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons.

September 5, 1968

Directives for the USSR Delegation to the XXIII Session of the General Assembly of the UN on the Issue of the Memorandum of the USSR Government on Some Urgent Measures to Halt the Arms Race and on Disarmament

Directives for the USSR Delegation to the XXIII Session of the General Assembly about halting the arms race and on disarmament.

April 15, 1968

Directive Sent to the Soviet Representative, New York [United Nations]

The Soviet government provided guidance to its representatives to the 1968 session of the UN General Assembly. The USSR specifically took issue with the American proposal on disarmament negotiations at the ENDC which it viewed as an attempt at arms control.

March 11, 1968

Directive Sent to Cde. Roshchin, Soviet Representative, Geneva

The Politburo adds language for a UN Statement about nuclear aggression.

March 11, 1968

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

This draft report contains updates on the 18 Nation General Assembly.

February 9, 1968

Directive Sent to Cde. Roshchin, Soviet Representative, Geneva

Politburo to the Soviet ambassador and representatives giving them language to use when discussing the American Air Force crash of a B-52 carrying hydrogen bombs in Greenland.

November 10, 1966

Directive to the Soviet Representative at the United Nations

The Soviet position was to not concur with the proposal to not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states without consideration of whether they had nuclear weapons (presumably belonging to a nuclear weapon state) on their territory.

April 9, 1968

Excerpts from Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev’s speech at the April 1968 Plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party

Brezhnev discusses negotiations with the United States over the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

December 27, 1962

Bulgarian UN Representative Milko Tarabanov, Report to Bulgarian Communist Party Politburo on Disarmament Negotiations

UN Representative Milko Tarabanov reported to the Bulgarian Communist Party Politburo recent developments of the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament. The report summarizes the conference's work from November 1962-December 1962, the period following the Cuban Missile Crisis. Tarabanov reports that Western powers put forward two draft agreements calling for the cessation of nuclear tests in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space, and underground--the proposals were debated during the 17th United Nations session.

The Cubam Missile Crisis occurred during the conference's session. Main issues discussed after Cuban Missile Crisis included: suspension of nuclear tests, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's proposal at the 17th session of the UN, ways to measure nuclear weapons testing, and military alliances (NATO).

Tarabanov also addresses the inter workings of conference members--Western, socialist, and neutral--including disagreements among Western powers. In summary Tarabanov adds that the prospect for cessation of nuclear tests is poor, but notes that the US may consider closing military bases, though not under pressure of the Soviet Union or neutral countries.