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1. USSR: ATTEMPTING TO IMPEDE WESTERN
TACTICAL LASER WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT?
RECENTLY, SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER EDWARD SHEVARDNADZEPEECH DURING THE THIRD SPECIAL SESSION ON DISARMAMENT AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) IN NEW YORK. DURING HIS SPEECH HE REMARKED ON THE NEED TO PLACE LIMITS ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS. ELABORATING ON THIS POINT, SHEVARDNADZE STATED'
WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION IN THIS REGARD IS THE PROPOSAL OF STATES MEMBERS OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT ON THE CESSATION AND PROHIBITION OF THE USE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR DEVELOPING ANDEW KINDS AND
SYSTEMS OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS. ME REGARD AS EXTREMELY INTERESTING THE IDEA OF YSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR A TIHELY ELABORATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ON PREVENTING THE USE OF NEW
TECHNOLOGIES FDR WEAPONSHOULD BE DONE IN
THE FIRST PLACE WITH RESPECT TO LASER. GENETIC> ANO ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS. ME NOTE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPOSAL OF SMEDEN TO BAN THE USE OF BATTLEFIELD LASER WEAPONS FOR BLINDING PERSONNEL.
THE SWEDES REPEATEDLY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO HAVEESOLUTION CALLINGAN AGAINST ANTIPERSONNEL LASER WEA PONS--BASED ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS--BE APPROVED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. THEY FIRST FORMALLY PROPOSED SUCH A RESOLUTION
DURING THEH INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS CONFERENCE IN GENEVA IN OCTOBER6 AS PART OF THE LAW ON LAND WARFARE. (THIS
RESOLUTION WAS REJECTED BY THE CONFEREESESULT OF
STRONG OPPOSITION FROM SEVERAL COUNTRIES. INCLUDING THE
USSR.)
ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS THROUGHOUT THE SUEDES SOUGHT SUPPORT FOR THIS RESOLUTION. FOR EXAMPLE"
IN APRIL THE SWEDISH MISSION IN GENEVA HOSTED AN INFORMAL MULTINATIONAL MEETING TO REVIEM THEIR PROPOSAL. (THE SOVIETS WERE NOTICEABLY ABSENT AT THIS MEETING AND THE SHEDES MERE OPENLY DISAPPOINTED BY THEIR N MAY AMBASSADOR BRITT THEORIN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SWEDISH DELEGATION TO THE UN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION, STATED THAT SWEDEN CONSIDERED THE USE OF ANTIPERSONNEL LASER WEAPONS 'A CLEAR CONTRAVENTION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES IN THE LAW OF LAND WARFARE."
IN JULY SWEDENREQUEST FOR VIEWS" OF THE RESOLUTION THEY WOULD PROPOSE TOD UN GENERAL
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