Summary record of the 887th meeting : 1st Committee, held at Headquarters, New York, on Thursday, 31 October 1957, General Assembly, 12th session

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Agenda item 24: Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments; conclusion of an International convention (treaty) on the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic, hydrogen and other weapons of mass destruction (A/3630 and Corr.1, A/3657, A/3674/Rev.1, A/3685; A/C.1/793, A/C.1/L.174, A/C.1/L.175/Rev.1, A/C.1/L.176/Rev.2, A/C.1/L.177, A/C.1/L.178/Rev.1, A/C.1/L.179 and Corr.1 and Add.1, A/C.1/L.180, A/C.1/L.181): (a) Report of the Disarmament Commission; (b) Expansion of the membership of teh Disarmament Commission and of its Sub-Committee; (c) Collective action to inform and enlighten the peoples of the world as to the dangers of the armaments race, and particularly as to the destructive effects of modern weapons; (d) Discontinuance under international control of tests of atomic and hydrogen weapons.