Pay special attention to section (c) of Stage 3 below.
The United States undertook bilateral negotiations with the communist Soviet Union in 1961 which lead to a "Joint Statement of Agreed Principles for
Disarmament Negitiations" which was circulated to all UN Members in Sept of 1961. According to UN Document A/4879, 20 Sept 1961, the relevant parts
were that member States would only have non-nuclear armaments, establishments, etc to maintain internal order and that the States shall support and
provide manpower for a UN Peace Force. Later in the fall of 1961 the United States submitted its own proposal for "General and Complete Disarmament"
to the UN Assembly. In it were provisions for three stages of disarmament.
Stage 1: States (nations) shall develop arrangements for the establishment of a UN Peace Force.
Stage 2: States shall further develop the peacekeeping function of the United Nations U.N.) and establish a United Nations Peace Force and
progressively strengthen it with the purpose (in Stage 3) of deterring any threat or use of force.
State 3: Progressive, controlled disarmament would proceed to the point where no State would have the military power to challenge the United Nations
Peace Force. The final phase of the disarmament program would be directed toward the attainment of a world in which:
(a) States would retain only those forces, non-nuclear armaments and establishments required for the purpose of maintaining internal order; they
would also support and provide agreed manpower for a U.N. Peace Force.
(b) The U.N. Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and quantities of armaments, would be fully functioning.
* (c) The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those
required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes.*
(d) The peacekeeping capabilities of the United Nations would be sufficiently strong and the obligations of all States under such arrangements
sufficiently far-reaching to assure peace and the just settlement of differences in a disarmed world.
As excerpted from the Dept of State Bulletin, 16 October 1961.
Much of the information above came from the book, International Military Forces: The Question of Peackeeping in an Armed and Disarming World, by
Lincoln P. Bloomfield.
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