BRITISH PLAN

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 13

BRITISH PLAN

Three-Stage Disarming (N.Z Press Association— Cont/rtgM) NEW YORK. September 17. The United States and Britain today laid down iron-clad enforcement conditions for the new disarmament plan Mr Khrushchev plans to put before the United Nations tomorrow. The United States Secretary of State (Mr Herter) told the General Assembly that inspection remained the key to any agreement, and challenged the Soviet Union to negotiate to prevent the arms race "from exploding into nuclear conflict." The British Foreign Secretary (Mr Selwyn Lloyd) laid down a detailed disarmament plan, and told the Assembly its development “would, of course, depend upon the development of international control,” United Press International reported. Mr Lloyd outlined a three-stage programme for balanced disarmament in the nuclear and conventional fields. First Stage: Agreement on ending nuclear tests, technical talks on the “cut-off” of fissionable material for weapons, agreement on maximum limits for the Great Powers’ forces, surrender of specific quantities of designated types of armaments to an international control agency, a conference on measures against surprise attack, and regulation of the use of outer space. Second Stage: Progressive reduction of conventional armaments and manpower "under proper control,” introduction of the fissionable material “cut-off,” beginning of nuclear weapons stockpile cutbacks by transfer under international supervision of their nuclear material to non-weapon» use, establishment of a system against surprise attack, and of one to control outer space for peaceful purposes.

Third Stage: A ban on manufacture of nuclear chemical, biological, and other weapons of mass destruction, a ban on the use of such weapons, a ban on the use of outer space for military purposes, elimination of remaining stocks of nuclear and other mass destruction weapons, establishment of international control of military budgets, final reduction of conventional armamenta and man-power to levels required for internal security only.