I 10mm 9 3 59 Au writym A gramme O re any 0ft DEPARTMENT OF STATE 9 00 oali yf 77 - Memorandum of Conversation 9 0 3 0 3 DATE 1 1959 SUBJECT Ian Mount Resolution at General Assembly 1 Hr o n Higgin First Biol-stew British Elbassy Miss mum Brown-Britiix no only $12 Mr Joseph J Sisco - UNP 2 Miss Elizabeth A Brnun - in 1 E1 5' comes TOthe colon-as of a conversation reviewing the British position on the um General Assembly agenda see separate morde of conversation Mr Wiggin left the attached note dealing with the Irish resolution on ssuina on or nuclear weapons He expressed the View it was unlikely that Ireland would agree to revise 0 it in any new that would mm 11- acceptable 5 Hr Sisco indicated that the US was studying mo proposal but had not re i any final conclusions or course we would be consulting close with the UK on 1 th matter 9 Joseph sec 0 Attachment CLASSHTED as stated' 131% 1 2933 sec 5 6 By Date 3 5 03 --I t 3 rvia LuIll-5n Isl Edgar a in I L90 3 2 159 MIA 3 Authority 0720 - w 1 MW l The following represents the Foreign Office's thinking on the latest pvision of the Irish draft resolution for the next General Assembly on I'the prevention of the rider dissemination of nuclear weapons mu - view on this draft is that although the Irish have not taken the point about the problem of inspection and control being paramount in the prevention of the dissemination of nuclear regions the course proposed in their resolution is nonleter unrealistic at the present stage In some ways it is an adjunct to the couplets control of the production of fissile material for both military and non-military purposes indeed it goes even mrther than that and really belongs to the final stage of a comprehensive disarmament plan The control required to ensure that nuclear stamens are not passed on to other countries would involve a complete count of the nuclear armouries of the nuclear powers and a continuing check on then If we are ever to get to such a stage of control and inspection in disarm- anent measures the problem of disseminating nuclear weapons would not arise Anyhow the Russians would certainly oppose such far-reaching measures of control for the dissemination of nuclear weapons and so should we in the absence of any comprehensive disarmament plan In addition the imlementation of the resolution would require very far-reaching controls over the non-nuclear powers We should be grateful if our views could be passed on to the Americans He should also liloe to know whether they have now decided in the light of the latest version of the Irish resolution what course they intend to take Our own attitude will of course depend on whether the Americans propose to renew discussions with the Irish on the resolution alert of withdrawing it altogether it is difficult to see how the Irish could improve it unless by coming round to our View that the best way of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons is to obtain a satisfactory agreement on the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests under festive controls BRITISH M531 HASHINGION 11 6 August 31 1959 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu