INVENTORY OF ARMAMENTS
U.N. COMMISSION TO OUTLINE METHODS ATOM BOMBS EXCLUDED (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. The United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments decided, in the face of Russian objections, to outline methods for a world-wide inventory of national armed forces and arms, excluding atom bombs. The General Assembly last year directed the Commission to formulate proposals for the receipt, checking, and publication, by an international organ of control within the framework of the Security Council, of full information to be supplied by member States on their effective and conventional armaments. Mr Jacob Malik (Russia) to-day revived the old Russian proposal that such an inventory be made only after the Security Council’s five permanen members had agreed to reduce their armed forces and arms by one-thir within a yeWr, and at the same tinr to destroy their atom bomb stockpiles. Any inventory plan would have to be approved by the Security Council where each of the five permanent members has a veto.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25738, 25 February 1949, Page 7
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