FOREWORD The present publication contains basic documents on arms control and disarmament developments in 1976 and is the latest in a series of volumes that have been issued annually since 1960. The work of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1976 is described in its 16th annual report (see Bibliography). The papers are arranged in chronological order, following a topical list of documents and lists of abbreviations and conferences. Other reference aids may be found at the back of the volume. These include a bibliography, a list of persons, and an index. The papers were compiled and annotated by R. William Nary, editor in chief, and Ruth Ihara, assistant editor. Karen A. Leniart provided assistance, and useful suggestions were received from other officers of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The technical editing was performed by the Editorial Services Branch of the Publishing and Reproduction Division of the Department of State. III CANADA TOPICAL LIST OF DOCUMENTS Statement by Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Jamieson Page 951 CONFERENCE OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISARMAMENT Draft Agreements and Conventions Soviet Draft Agreement on the Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons, August 3, 1976 . British Draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, August 6, 1976 .. 516 Report by the Working Group on Environmental Modification: Draft Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, September 2, 1976 . . . Decisions on Procedural Matters Certain Procedural Aspects of Work for 1976 and Organization of Work Reports 520 577 432 484 First Progress Report by the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts To 526 Report by the Working Group on Environmental Modification: Draft 577 Soviet Representative (Roshchin,), February 17, 1976. . 37 44 United States Representative (Martin): Environmental Modification, Japanese Representative (Ogiso): Comprehensive Test Ban [Extract], VI Soviet Representative (Roshchin), March 9, 1976 . . Netherlands Representative (Van der Klaauw): Environmental Modifica- Soviet Representative (Roshchin): Comprehensive Test Ban, March 18, 110 British Representative (Allen): Environmental Modification, March 18, 114 FRG Representative (Schlaich): Environmental Modification, March 25, 126 Soviet Representative (Roshchin): Environmental Modification, March 30, 160 Japanese Representative (Ogiso): Environmental Modification, April 1, 168 Canadian Representative (Barton): Environmental Modification, April 1, 172 United States Representative (Martin): Chemical Weapons, April 13, 211 .. Japanese Representative (Ogiso): Chemical Weapons, April 13, 1976 United States Representative (Martin): Environmental Modification, April 237 British Representative (Goronwy-Roberts), July 1, 1976 British Representative (Allen): Chemical Weapons, July 6, 1976 Japanese Representative (Ogiso): Chemical Weapons, July 6, 1976 United States Representative (Martin): Chemical Weapons, July 13, 463 Soviet Representative (Likhatchev): Chemical Weapons, July 22, 1976. ACDA Director Iklé: Arms Transfers, Nuclear Cooperation, and Non- Swedish Representative (Thorsson): Comprehensive Test Ban, July 29, 501 Pakistani Representative (Saleem): Environmental Modification, August 3, 507 |