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i. Urges once more the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics arid the United States of

Amer ace a8 che two major nuc lear-weapon States, to proclaim, either through simultaneoug
ir : ral eclarations or through a joint declaration, an immediate nuclear-arms freeze,
ich would be a first step towards the comprehensive programme of disarmament and whose

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scope would be the following:

would embrace:
A comprehensive test ban of nuclear weapons and of their delivery vehicles;

The complete cessation of the manufacture of nuclear weapons and of their
delivery vehicles;

A ban on all further deployment of nuclear weapons and of their delivery
vehicles;

The complete cessation of the production of fissionable material for weapons
purposes;

would be subject to all relevant measures and procedures of verification which
been agreed by the parties in the case of the SALT I 77/ and SALT II 78/
well as those agreed upon in principle by them during the preparatory trilateral

negotiations on the comprehensive test ban held at Geneva;

(¢) Tt would be of an initial five-year duration, subject to prolongation in the event
ef other nuclear-weapon States joining in such a freeze, as the General Assembly expects them
to do;

2. Requests the above-mentioned two major nuclear-weapon States to submit a joint

report or two separate reports to the General Assembly, prior to the opening of its
thirty-ninth session, on the implementation of the present resolution;

3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-ninth session an item
entitled ‘Implementation of General Assembly resolution 38/73 on a nuclear-arms freeze™.

RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 38/73 E:

In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria,
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad,
Chile, Colombia, Congo, Cesta Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Desocratic Yemen,
Depagrik, Djibouci, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji,
Finland, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Chena, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala,
Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Bungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireiand, Ivory
Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebsnon,
Lesctho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta,
Mauritania, Meuritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicarague, Niger,
Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland,
Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelies, Sierra
Leonea,, Singapere, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Syria,
Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, USSR, United Arab Emirates, United
Republic of Cameroon, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Vanuatu,
Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Against: Belgium, Ganadd France, Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

Abstaining: Australia, Behamas, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Saint Lucia, Spain, Zaire.
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Absent: Albania, China, Comoros, Democratic Kampuchea, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea,
GuineaBissau, Saint Vincent, Samoa, Somalia, St. Christopher and Nevis, Thailand.

General Assembly resolution S-10/2, para. 108.

J3/ See A/S-12/32.
26/ See A/38/132-8/15675 and Corr. and 2, para. 28.
2i/ "Interim Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist
. Republics on certain measures with respect to Che limitation of strategic offensive arms"
(United. Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 944, No. 13445, p. 3).
78/ “Treaty between the United Staces of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on
: the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arme" (see CD/53/Appendix II1/Vol. I, document cD/28).

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