It is these very principles that should continue to inform our foreign policy on nuclear proliferation today. The next year, again by the initiative and ongoing hard work of Mr. Frank Aiken, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 1576 (XV) that called on the countries with nuclear weapons to voluntarily halt the proliferation of such devices. In 1961 the assembly adopted a further two resolutions, the first of which was Resolution 1664 initiated by Sweden about the conditions of the agreement. The second was Resolution 1665 (XVI), yet another Irish initiative led by Mr. Frank Aiken, to put the onus on those states with nuclear weapons to conclude an agreement.

See this item in context