AumorIIyAM-D lijO r' POT TYPE IN THIS mm 1031 lonr Hm I 36FROM jmassy 1151 111 T0 THE DEPARTMENT OF SIATH Z oiulg l no 3 33 K32 75 Ea A 41 93 1 left REF Emeespatch 42 August 17 1961 533 Slf or as fol 3H c 5130' Connor dag owns-rem 71 herons ACTION COPY DEPARTMENT OF STATE - - ACTION DEPL- Zr 2 m b epr I 73 a A 5 4 1 43 Ebd 5 M67 57 954 19 1 If - Use Only 3 of ER 2 ne'uaf 15 957 - x a fe - a 2914 4 11 SUBJECT 311% Sixteenth Session Irish Item on Preventing Jider Disseminati o 4 of liuclear Weapons On Friday Augist 18 the of Ehcternal Affairs asked the reporting officer to come to receive an Aide-Efenaire and preliminary draft of the G01 reso- lution on preventing wider dissemination of nuclear weapons which had been the subject of a conversation of the minister of External Affairs with Ambassador Stockdale two days earlier The Aide- iemoire and the preliminary draft resolution are herewith transmitted to the Department as reproducible enclosures to this deepatch In the course of conversation between Mr Sean RQIAN Counsellor of the Department's Political and United Nations Affairs Section and the reporting officer Mr Ronsn was asked about the nature of GUI probings of the USSR which the Minister had referred to earlier and which were reported at the end of the third paragraph in the referenced despatch Mr Ronan replied that he was unaware of any specific and recent probings undertaken by the Iiinister or by the Irish dele- gation to the United Nations on this point He said that he believed the Minister may have been somewhat carried away by his own concern with respect to this -problem and may have projected conversations that he had with Russian delegates to the United Nations in the past into his discussion of what he believed to be the USSR's attitudes at present 1 I is _i i l Grant Stockdale Anhassador Enclosures 3 Aided-Jan oire Preliminary Draft Been lutions COPY SENT u In - w ii h I IJI hll aim-a 913 mo A SUE-3 2150133 l The Irish Government which is greatly concerned by the danger to world peace inherent in the possibility of the irther dissemination of nuclear weapons has intmduced resoluticns on'this problem in the United Iiations General Assembly in 1958 1959 and 15560 2 The Assenbly has recognized the gravity of the problem and at its Fourteenth and Fifteenth Sessions passed without a dissenting vote resolutions introduced by the Irish Delegation and co-sponsored at the Fifteenth Session by the Delegation of Ghana Japan Mexico and Liorooco The Irish Government feels that nonetheless this danger still threatens amt consequently as has already been notified has requested that the apestion be inscribed again on the Agenda of the Sixteenth Session of the General Assembly 3 If the matter is inscribed it intends to introduce a further resolution and is considering the best form unic n this might take It will be happy to take into account any observations which interested States might wish to make with regard to the preliminary draft resolution attached hereto of bcternal Affairs 17 August 1961 UN 114155131313 - - 1 pm3dr Ed I 323 3 u-J u I nan-zines mm The General Assembly Recallirg its resolutions 1350 xIv of 20th Hovember 1959 and 1576 xv -of 20th December 1960 Cmvinced that an increase in the number of States possessing nuclear weapons is growing more imminent and threatens to extend and intensify the arms race to increase the difficulties of avoiding war and to hamper the promotion of the rule of law Str-z-zssinfe- its conviction that it is urgently necessary to secure international agreement that the Powers producing nuclear weapons would'refrain from relinquish irg control of such Tu'neapons to any nation not possessing them and that the Powers not' possessing such weapons would refrain from manufacturing or acquiring them 1 Reaffirms its resolution 1576 xv of 20th December 1960 2 Calls in particular on the four Powers at present possess ing nucl ear weapons to use their best endeavours to secure the conclusion of an international agreement containing provisions under which the said Powers would undertake between themselves not to give nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states would undertake not to accept or to cake nuclear weapons and would also undertake to facilitate the measures of inspection and control required to ensure that each of them was fulfill- ing its uI ertakings 3 Calls upon all other states to cooperate to this end 11 luaust I 1361 m- 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