Ending the Financial Arms Race

North Korea and Asia s Widening Arms Race

Southeast Asia s Widening Arms Race

Stopping Latin America s Budding Arms Race

The cessation of the nuclear arms race is a reality.

The East West arms race had created an explosive situation.

But how should we set about preventing an arms race in outer space?

I personally felt a moral responsibility to end the arms race.

One example of an evolutionary arms race is in sexual conflict between the sexes.

There can be no going back to the nuclear arms race of the twentieth century.

The Conference establishes, for the duration of the current session, an Ad Hoc Committee under agenda item 3 entitled Prevention of an arms race in outer space to deal with the prevention of an arms race in the outer space.

Work on PAROS is not starting from scratch.

Cuba has always been opposed to the arms race in outer space or anywhere else.

The Group of 21 reaffirms that the prevention of an arms race in outer space has assumed greater urgency because of legitimate concerns that existing legal instruments are inadequate to deter an arms race in outer space.

We also tried to curtail the arms race and address other areas of conflict between East and West.

Stopping Latin America s budding arms race is about as good an idea as there can be.

As protective equipment developed, the technology to destroy such equipment also became a part of the arms race.

Governments need to work on the basis of the principle of confidence building in order to put an end to the arms race.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the subject of the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS).

Develop effective multilaterally negotiated measures to prevent an arms race in outer space

It is our view that the CD should not refrain from addressing the issue of the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

Around 1960, when the superpower arms race became a ballistic missile race, Livermore warheads were more useful than the large, heavy Los Alamos warheads.

My intention today is not to set forth a new Canadian position on the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

It has also been one of the co sponsors of the General Assembly resolutions on PAROS.

We would point out once again that it is an easier task to prevent an arms race in outer space than to attempt to control and decelerate such a race after it has begun.

On an ongoing basis South Africa continues to lend its support to the United Nations General Assembly resolution on PAROS as testimony of its commitment against the weaponization of outer space that would lead to an arms race if not curbed.

On that occasion a number of speakers and participants agreed on the urgent need to prevent an arms race in outer space.

For many years China has been making tireless efforts to promote progress on the issue of PAROS.

The prevention of an arms race in outer space is a priority matter for the Russian Federation at the Conference on Disarmament.

My country, Sri Lanka, and Egypt traditionally introduced at the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly a resolution entitled Prevention of an arms race in outer space , which calls for the recommencement at the earliest of the PAROS negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament.

The EU welcomes the end of the arms race between the USSR and the United States since the end of the Cold War.

The first is that an arms race in space must be prevented because of the growing involvement of the international community in activities designed to ensure development and progress.

Canada stands with those who support the immediate commencement of discussions on PAROS.

Thirdly, the re establishment of an ad hoc committee on PAROS in the CD as a platform for our work.

In conclusion, Malaysia would like to reiterate that an arms race in outer space should be prevented through a legally binding instrument.

The Group of 21 reaffirms its proposal in document CD 1570 and CD 1571 on the programme of work and a draft decision, including a mandate for the establishment of an ad hoc committee on Prevention of arms race in outer space to negotiate specific and concrete measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

But as national security activities in space have grown, so have concerns by some States about the arms race in outer space.

In view of the above, substantive work on preventing an arms race in outer space, by closing the loopholes in the existing international legal regime and preventing the weaponization of outer space and an arms race in practical terms, cannot be deferred.

The old Cold War world order was based on the nuclear arms race between the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.

As Coordinator of the Group of 21, I am delighted to present the following statement on behalf of the Group on the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

In the 1950s the United Nations General Assembly began to include an item on the prevention of an arms race in outer space on its agenda.

Third, Cuba agreed with the view that the existing legal regime was inadequate to ensure the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

Today, after new issues, after nuclear disarmament, after the cut off , we are responding to your fourth invitation on the topic of preventing an arms race in space, or PAROS.

Still, it is a bold initiative that should be revived in view of Latin America s incipient arms race.

And we could continue to talk about other areas in which the arms race, far from stopping, is paradoxically maintaining a brisk pace.