How do they think of the women and children who wake up with new hope and who go to fetch water or plant their plantations and who find themselves blown up by those who should have cared much more than to play with such weapons — such utterly senseless weapons of destruction?

I wished to remind the Conference of these principles which are familiar and recognized — but I am sorry to be blunt — very often forgotten by us within our Conference which is thus penalized by the perverse effects generated as specific interests are inexplicably blown up out of all proportion. These interests may be felt to be natural, but ultimately the way in which they are currently expressed distorts the multilateral action which it is our task to pursue here.