ATOMIC ENERGY

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1946, Page 2

ATOMIC ENERGY

GROMYKO DEFENDS SOVIET

CONTROL PLAN

NEW YORK, July 31. The Russian representative (Mr Gromyko) told a private meeting of the control committee of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission that it was a misinterpretation or the Soviet’s proposals to suggest that the Soviet favoured only national action against violators of any treaty for outlawing atomic weapons. The Soviet plan, he said, presupposed <• that the Security Council should take international action and, if necessary, impose sanctions for violations. The importance _of the system of inspection on which the United States laid such emphasis was greatly exaggerated. No inspection could guarantee peace and security. The only guarantee of control was cooperation' among nations. Only if treaties were strictly observed was it possible to imagine the continued existence of the United Nations. It was neither right nor lawful, said Mr Gromyko, for any country to say: “Either accept our plan or we will refuse to conclude a conven-