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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I


Commission has been endeavoring to work out a suitable and effective
system for the control of atomic energy and the prohibition of the
atomic weapon. The Commission for Conventional Armaments has
been endeavoring towork out the sprelimin ary steps for the develop-
ment of an effetive plan for the regulation and control of conven-
tional armamenits and armed forces. If and when the two commissions
succeed in developing suitable and acceptable plans in their respective
fields, there will be .a necessity for coordinating the two plans in an
over-all system of collective security,.&quot;3

   For the record of the 42nd Meeting of the Ad Hoc Political Committee,
November 19, 1949, during which John D. Hickerson, the United States Repre-
sentative, made the statement here quoted, see GA (IV), Ad Hoc Potitical
Com-
mittee, pp. 234-245.

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         Position Paper Prepared in the Department of State

 SECRET                           [WAsHINGTON,] September 2, 1950.
 REGULATION AND REDUCTION OF CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS AND
                           ARMED FoRcEs
                           THE PROBLEM
   What should be the position of the United States with regard to the
 regulation and reduction of conventional armaments?
                         RECOMMENDATIONS
   1. The United States should not encourage substantive debate on
 this question in the General Assembly.
   2. If debate develops, the United States should take the following
 position:
   (a) Continue its support of the objective of regulation and reduc-
 tion of conventional armaments and armed forces.
   (b) Support continuation of the planning activities of the Com-
 mission for Conventional Armaments proceeding on the basis of its
 approvedplan of work and currently engaged in the consideration
 of Item 3 thereof.
    (c) Insofar as there are attempts to link planning activities of
 international control of atomic energy with the regulation and reduc-
 tion of conventional armaments and armed forces, press the view
 that, although the system for international control of atomic energy
 is necessarily different from the system for the regulation and
 reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces, and their
 formulation and elaboration must be kept separate, the two must be
 coordinated in their implementation once agreement has been reached
 on the respective systems.


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