6 Nations Ask U.S., Soviets to End Arms Race
NEW DELHI — Leaders of six nations held a peace summit today and called for the United States and the Soviet Union to prevent an arms race in space and to halt the testing, production and deployment of all nuclear weapons.
“Outer space must be used for the benefit of mankind as a whole, not as a battleground of the future,†the leaders of India, Sweden, Greece, Mexico, Tanzania and Argentina said in a joint “New Delhi Declaration.â€
“A halt to the nuclear arms race at the present moment is imperative. . . . However, this halt should not be an end in itself.
“It must be immediately followed by substantial reduction in nuclear forces, leading to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and the final goal of general and complete disarmament,†the statement said.
One-Day Summit
The declaration was issued at the end of a one-day summit attended by Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Papandreou said later that he was prepared to “act unilaterally†to remove U.S. nuclear weapons from Greece.
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