Disarmament call
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm Leaders of a six-nation disarmament intitiative have called on the superpowers to stop nuclear testing and proposed that the United Nations should monitor a test ban. The leaders from Sweden, India, Argentina, Greece, Mexico and Tanzania made the proposal after signing a declaration calling on the United States and the Soviet Union to destroy half of their strategic nuclear arsenals. "The United Nations as a body, could guarantee a
fair verification system,’’ said the Swedish Prime Minister, Ingvar Carlsson, host of the two-day meeting of the six. The other five leaders are the Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, the Greek Prime Minister, Andreas Papandreou, the former President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Dante Caputo, and the Mexican president, Miguel • de la Madrid. The declaration also called for a ban on antisatellite weapons, such as those being, developed in the United States “star
wars” project, known as the . Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). “The nuclear arms race must be halted — now. Nuclear testing must stop — now. Strategic arms must be reduced — now. An arms race in space must - be prevented — now.” Mr Carlsson said. The six said they would write to world leaders requesting a special United Nations session this summer to discuss the test ban. A group of experts from the six countries will also soon convene in Sweden
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