It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
Disarmament requires trust.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.