DIVERGENT APPROACHES TOWARDS NUCLEAR-WEAPON ELIMINATION HIGHLIGHTED IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE

20 October 1997

Press Release
GA/DIS/3082/

DIVERGENT APPROACHES TOWARDS NUCLEAR-WEAPON ELIMINATION HIGHLIGHTED IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE

19971020 Some Speakers Cite Success of Bilateral Negotiations, Others Say Process of Achieving Elimination Must Be Multilateral

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/DIS/3082 issued 15 October, in the statement by the representative of Kazakstan, the final paragraph on page 8 should read as follows:

She supported the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia. All nuclear weapons had been withdrawn from her country. Even when there had been nuclear weapons in Kazakstan, her country had never tried to take advantage of the situation for any political speculation. Since broad areas of her country had suffered the effects of nuclear explosions, she understood the importance of strengthening environmental safeguards and that was another reason to strive for the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the area. She was grateful to the Secretary-General for his support for such a zone, which had also been a topic in the international conference on non-proliferation that had taken place in Kazakstan this year.

In the first paragraph on page 9, the third sentence should read: She supported the principles of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which her country had already signed.

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