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Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6 Following is the text of the “Declaration on Averting Threats of a New War and on Consolidating Peace and the Security of Nations” proposed on September 20 to the General Assembly of the United Nations by Soviet Foreign Minister A, Y. Vyshinsky. Declaration On Averting Threats of a New War And on Consolidating Peace and Security of Nations THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Taking into consideration that the most important task of the United Nations is the maintenance of international peace and security, the con- solidation and development of friendly relations among peoples and their co-operation in solving international problems; Expressing its firm determination to avert the threat of a new war and sharing the unbending will to peace of the peoples, who expressed this desire by hundreds of millions of signatures to the Stockholm Appeal; Regarding the use of the atomic weapon and other means for mass annihilation of people as the gravest international crime against mankind and proceeding from the unanimous decision of the General Assembly in 1946 on the necessity of banning the use of atomic energy for military aims; Noting that events taking place at present in Korea and in other Paci- fie areas confirm with renewed force the exceptional importance and time- liness, for the cause of peace and the security of the peoples, of the united efforts of five powers — the permanent members of the Security Coun- cil who bear special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace, The General Assembly decides to approve the following: Declaration: 1. The General Assembly condemns the propaganda of a new war carried out in a number of countries and appeals to all governments to prohibit such propa- ganda in their countries and call those guilty to account. 2. The General Assembly, recognizing the use of the atomic weapon as a weapon of aggression and mass annihilation of peoples, contrary to the conscience and honor of peoples and incompatible with membership in the United Nations, de- claves an unqualified ban on the atomie weapon and the establishment of a strict international control over the precise and unconditional realization of this ban. The General Assembly at the same time declares that the government which is the first to use the atomic weapon or any other means of mass annihilation of people against any country, commits a crime against mankind and will be regarded as a war criminal. 3. The General Assembly, proceeding from the necessity to consolidate peace and considering the particular responsibility of the permanent members of the Se- curity Council in securing peace, expresses unanimously its desire: a) That the United States of America, Great Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union unite their peaceful efforts and conclude among themselves a_ pact for the consolidation of peace; b) That these great powers reduce their present armed forces (ground forces, military aviation of all services, naval forces) in the course of 1950 by one-third of their effectives, and submit the question of the further reduction of armed forces for examination at one of the earliest sessions of the General Assembly. | Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6 USSR INFORMATION BULLETIN