Conveying his country's concern at the deadlock in the Conference on Disarmament, he called for an early launch of negotiations in the Conference on a non-discriminatory, multilateral and effectively verifiable fissile material cut-off treaty and also stressed that prevention of an arms race in outer space should be given priority within the NPT.
Le régime de non-prolifération nucléaire doit être renforcé sans que soit compromis l'exercice, par tous les États, du droit d'utiliser l'énergie nucléaire à des fins pacifiques.