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By SVYATOSLAV KOZLOV

UNITED NATIONS (APN) — An important prop-
Osal was made to the 36th General Assembly of the
United Nations by Soviet foreign minister Andrei
Gromyko in a major speech, Sept. 22.

_ The General Assembly, he said, should adopt a decla-
Tation solemnly proclaiming that states and statesmen
who. are first to use nuclear weapons would commit a
very grave crime against mankind.

No task is more urgent and pressing today than that of
reducing tension in the world, to curb the arms race and
Temove the threat of war.

.. The paramount task must be efforts to avert a
thermo-nuclear war that spells an unheard-of calamity
for the world. So there are no and cannot be any grounds

| OFreasons, circumstances or situations entitling states to

_ be first to use nuclear weapons, that is to start a nuclear

Shambles. : .

“It would be a crime against all nations, against the
very existence of life on earth,”’ said the Soviet minister.
~ “Such a declaration as proposed, would be a stern
warning to statesmen who may allow such a criminal

them who, contrary to reason and a sense of responsibil-
_ ity to the present and the succeeding generations will

take such a monstrous step, will never be justified or

foregiven. , :

“We also propose that the declaration should say with
| all authority that doctrines admitting first use of nuclear
_ Weapons are incompatable with the laws of human
| ™orality and the noble ideas of the United Nations,”

Said the minister. ; ;

“It is, however, well known that such man-hating
doctrines and even working plans for a nuclear war have
been drawn up in the Pentagon and NATO head-
quarters. These centres of military folly are concerned
Not to save mankind from the terrible threat but to find
Ways of unleashing a world holocaust, by lowering the
threshold of nuclear danger: ome

“They openly say that they will not desist from the
| Possibilities of using nuclear weapons first when they

- feel it is useful for their designs. An
| ‘‘Nuclear mania tries to deceive mankind by claiming

‘| that nuclear war need not be feared too much, that it is
_4menable and acceptable, that it can be limited ...
“All these statements are designed to mislead the
People, to paralyze their will to struggle against the nu-
clear :

nuclear build-up is in reply to
the imaginary Soviet threat. ! :
_ | Ruclear threat to the planet, who was first to use nuclear
_ Weapons, and who started the mad arms race, with the
illusory aim of achieving absolute military supremacy

‘The U.S. militarists are terrorizing and blackmailing
| all peoples, including those of their own allies, with the
| Ruclear threat.
| “The NATO countries have turned down the Soviet
Proposals for mutual renunciation of the first use of

decision to be taken. They must realize that those of -

are statements. by..U.S. and. |. -~

_“Ttis known to everyone in the world, whocreated the |

_ | And upsetting the existing strategic equilibrium in the —
| world.

Soviet foreign minister at UN
Gromyko urges ‘eliminate

uclear war’

nuclear and conventional weapons, thus demonstrating
who is the source of the danger of nuclear war.

‘‘Washington poses as an advocate of nuclear non-
proliferation, but its entire military policy of the nuclear
arms race only promotes their spread and growth of the
the threat.”’

The declaration proposed by the Soviet Union is ex-
pected to emphasize that the nuclear arms race should be
stopped and removed by joint efforts through honest
negotiations on an equal footing.

It is essential that this collective act of the inter-
national community should make it clear, especially to
heads.of states possessing nuclear weapons, that their
supreme duty is to eliminate completely the danger of the
outbreak of a nuclear conflict, Gromyko urged.

‘To save the world from the disaster of nuclear an-
nihilation, to give an impulse to the non-proliferation of
nuclear weapons, and to complete nuclear disarmament,
this is the essence of the political document which the
Soviet Union offers the world community. This act of

goodwill may become a major milestone on the way to

total abolition of the threat of a nuclear war.
‘‘No country should stand aloof from the solution of
that problem,’’ Gromyko stressed.

—asissniit,

Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko . .. proposed de-
claration against first nuclear strike use at the UN general
assembly.

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TORON TO — Calling for “‘new, creative concepts of
international understanding”’ to ensure humanity's sur-
vival, a group of prominent scholars from the Soviet
Union and Canada, at a Symposium on Peace and
Jnderstanding here, recommended increased ex-

.Changes between the two systems, and working toward

concrete disarmament agreements.

Following their September 19-20 gathering the par-
ticipants agreed on a declaration whose first point is:
“Nuclear technology makes war obsolete. Survival of
the human race depends on a total shift in thinking about
nations as friends or enemies.

Joint Declaration
Pursuing this concept, the declaration explains:
“This new awareness of ourselves as interdependent
members of an international community demands a total
change in our concept of security.

*‘The only real enemy, or threat to security,”’ it main-
tains, ‘is continued reliance on confrontation instead of
negotiation. There are no winners in a nuclear war.”

The Symposium, of leading authorities, and a wide
range of concerned persons, was sponsored jointly by:
Committee on Peace and Understanding; Canadian In-
stitute of International Affairs; Canada-USSR Associa-
tion; and USSR-Canada Society (the latter located in the
USSR).

Soviet Participants
Soviet participants were: Ivan Farisov, Dean of the
Institute of Asian and African Studies; Valery
Schibisenkov, secretary-general, USSR-Canada Socie-
ty; Valery Tischkov, historian (author of three books on

. Canada) historical branch of USSR Academy of Sci-

ences; and A. Kashtanov, from the USSR Consulate in
Canada.

‘*Time is running out,”’ they and their Canadian coun-
terparts agreed. ‘‘New, creative concepts of inter-
national understanding must replace outmoded, in-
flexible perceptions. The urgent goals of peace and the
survival of humanity are too important to permit any
symposium on the subjects to conclude without con-
sidering practical recommendations for study and ac-
tion.”

= Canadian Participants :
The leading participants from Canada were: Dr. Nor-
man Alcock, nuclear physicist, former director, Cana-
dian Peace Research; Dr. Margaret Fulton, Presi-
dent, Mount Vincent University; Walter - Gordon,
economist, businessman and former cabinet minister;
Dr. Franklyn Griffiths; Dr. George Ignatiev, chancellor,

_ University of Toronto; Dr. Eoin Mackay, Canadian

council of Churches; Stephanie McCandles,
Reford-McCandles International Consultants, director,
Meeting the World; and Dr. Murray Thomson, Project
Ploughshares.

Urgent Recommendations
While discussion ranged over many areas, the six
recommendations of the symposium were quite brief and
considered urgent: _
e That continuing efforts be made to extend the

_ dialogue reflected by this symposium.

e That scientific and cultural exchanges between our
two countries be renewed and enlarged — exchanges
which foster open discussion of the real differences
which separate us, as well as the values we hold in
common. a

e We encourage steps toward more favorable
economic and trade relations between our two countries.

e We encourage middle-power initiatives on the part
of Canada which may lead to concrete disarmament
agreements.

e We endorse giving a high priority to incorporating

-the urgent survival issues which face mankind into the

learning systems which exist today.

e Finally, the symposium considers it highly desirable
to continue and increase professional and vocational
world-wide contacts and efforts designed to mobilize |

public opinion for disarmament.

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