The United Nations,India and Test Ban

1. UN Document DC 44 and Corr. 1, 8 April 1954, Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement for April, May and June 1954, p. 1. Also see DC/55, Annex 2.

2. See Document DC/59, 19 November 1954: Document A/C. 1/L. 100/Rev. 1, General Assembly, Official Records, IX Annexes Agenda items 20 and 68.

3. See India's note of March 1955 (Document DC/65) to the UN Secretary-General about India's earlier letter. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement for January, February and March 1955.

Earlier, the Japanese House of Councillors adopted a resolution on April 5, 1954, expressing concern about the calamitous effects of nuclear weapons of mass destruction The House of Councillors resolving to request the United Nations to take immediately appropriate measures; in order to realize the establishment of effective international control of atomic energy, the prohibition of atomic weapons, and the prevention of damages by experiments of atomic weapons and to achieve the peaceful utilisation of atomic energy for the promotion of human welfare.” See Document DC/109, March 25, 1957, Disarmament Commission, Official records, supplement for January to December 1957, p. 2 (3) Similar resolutions demanding conclusion of an agreement for the cessation of nuclear tests were passed by the supreme Soviet of USSR and Parliaments of Yugolsavia, Indonesia & Burma. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplements, Annex 4, Document DC/SC-1/65/Rev. 1, August 27, 1965 p. 62.

5. Document DC/71, October 7, 1955 Annex 15, p. 21. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement for April to December 1955; also see DC/SC. 1/26 Rev. 2 May 10, 1955.

6. United Nations and Disarmament, 1964–65 (New York, United Nations), pp. 136–137; also see India's Note Verbale of July 25, 1956 regarding nuclear tests. Document DC/98, Disarmament Commission, Supplement for January to December 1956, pp. 52–54; General Assembly, official records, Tenth Session Annexes, Agenda Item 59, Document A/2949 and Add. 1.

7. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement for January — December 1956, Annex 5, Document DC/SC. 1/341.

8. Ibid., Annex 2, DC/SC. 1/38.

9. Ibid., Annex 6 (DC/SC. 1/42).

10. Ibid., Doc. DC/92; ibid., Doc. DC/98.

11. General Assembly, Official Records. Twelfth Session, Annexes, agenda items 64, 70, 72, Doc. A/3936.

12. Ibid., First Committee, 824th and 829th meetings also. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement for January to December 1957, Doc. DC/112, annex 6.

13. Ibid., annex 12 (DC/SC. 1/60).

14. Ibid., annex 11 (DC/SC. 1/59).

15. Ibid., Doc. DC/113, annex 5 (DC/SC. 1/66).

16. In 1957 — peak of nuclear testing in world-wide concern nine thousand scientists from forty three states including several nobel laureates and led by Dr. Linus Pauling submitted a memorandum to UN Secretary-General on January 13, 1958.

17. General Assembly, Official Records, Twelfth Session, Annexes, agenda item 24, Document A/3674/Rev. 1.

18. Ibid., Documents A/C. 1/L. 174, AC/1/L. 176/Rev. 4 and A/C. 1/L. 180.

19. Official Records, General Assembly, Thirteenth Session, Annexes, Agenda Items sixty-seven, seventy and seventy-two Document A/3897.

20. General Assembly Official Records, Thirteenth Session, Supplement No. 17.

21. General Assembly, Official Records, Thirteenth Session, Supplement, Doc. A/c. I/L. 205.

22. Ibid., Doc. A/C. 1/L. 202/Rev. 1 and Add, 1 & 2.

23. Document GEN/DNT/TWG. 2/9.

24. General Assembly, Official Records, Fourteenth Session, Annexes, Agenda Item 64, Doc. A/4 186.

25. Ibid., Annexes, Doc. A/4290, para 6 (A/C. 1/L. 237/Rev. 1).

26. Ibid., para 5 (A/C. 1/L. 236/Rev. 1–1/3).

27. Ibid., Plenary meetings, 842nd meeting.

28. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement, January-December 1960, Document DC/189, p. 21.

29. Document A/4778.

30. Disarmament Commission, Official records, Supplement, January-December 1961, Document DC/188, July 26, 1961.

31. General Assembly, Official Records, Sixteenth Session, Plenary Meetings, 1043rd Meeting.

32. Ibid. Annexes, Agenda items 73 and 72, Document A/c. 1/L. 283/Rev. 2 and Add. 1.

33. Ibid., Plenary Meetings, 1047th Meetings.

34. Ibid., Annexes, Agenda Items 73 and 72, Document A/4942/Add. 2 (A/C. 1/L. 280).

35. Ibid., Document DC/203, Annex 1, Section H.

36. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement, January-December 1962, Document DC/198, 2 January 1962.

37. Disarmament Commission, Official Records, Supplement for January 1961 to December 1962, Document DC/203, Annex 1, Section H. (ENDC/9) and Section 1 (ENDC/11).

38. Ibid., Section J. (ENDC/28).

39. Ibid., Document DC/205, Annex 1, Section (ENDC/58) and Section P (ENDC/59).

40. General Assembly, Official Records, Seventeenth Session, Plenary Meetings, 1165th Meeting.

41. General Assembly, Official Records, Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/9627), Annex II, Document CCD/4311.

42. See A/31/125 annex.

43. General Assembly, Official Records, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/33/27), Document CCD/558 and Add. 1; Ibid., Thirty-fourth session, Supplement No. 27 (A/34/27), Appendix III, Vol. II, Document CD/43 and Add. 1. Also see CD/33 and Corr. 1, Appendix III, Vol. 1., Document CD/18.

44. The United Nations Disarmament Year-book. Volume 7, 1982 (New York: United Nations, 1982), pp. 235–36.

45. Official Records, General Assembly, Thirty-Seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/37/27 and Corr. 1) para 14.

46. Ibid; (Appendix C-D/355), Document CD/260 and CD/318.

47. Official Records, General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/33/27), Document CCD/558 and Add. 1; ibid., Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement 27 (A/34/27), Appendix III, Vol. II, Document CD/43 and Add. 1. Also see CD/53 and Corr. 1, Appendix III, Vol. 1, Document CD/18.

48. The United Nations and Disarmament (New York: United Nations, 1985), p. 71.