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OTHER ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT DEVELOPMENT S
The United Kingdom, pledged to play a full part in inter-
national efforts to reduce the risk of armed conflict, to
achieve disarmament and to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons,
is actively involved in multilateral discussions of arms
limitation and disarmament issues in the Conference of the
Committee on Disarmament in Geneva and elsewhere. The Government
attaches major importance to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons and to the Conference which, in May 1975 in
Geneva, will review the operation of the Treaty. As a depositary
power for the Treaty, the United Kingdom is playing an active part
in the detailed preparation for the Conference, as well as in
multilateral efforts to strengthen the Treaty and its purposes.
35. The United Kingdom sent a team of legal, medical and military
experts to the Conference of Government Experts held by the
International Committee of the Red Cross in Lucerne in September
and October 1974, which discussed weapons that may cause unneces-
sary suffering or have indiscriminate effects. The Conference
produced a report for discussion at the Diplomatic
Conference on Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, at which the
United Kingdom was also represented. The Government has contri-
buted constructively to discussion in the United Nations on a
number of disarmament issues.
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