Concluding Remarks
Looking back over mankind's long history of war and peace, one is deeplystruck by the fact that peace does not come easily and thus should be doublytreasured.
In recent years, while there has been some relaxation in the internationalsituation, peace has not prevailed in the world. On the regional level,tensions persist. Armed conflicts and local wars break out continuouslyand hegemonism and power politics are still lingering on. While old contradictionshave yet to be fundamentally resolved, new contradictions emerge. Internationalarms control and disarmament is still a long-term, arduous task. The completeeradication of the disaster of war and the realization of a complete andlasting peace, therefore, remain a highly complex and difficult task beforethe peace-loving people of the world.
The world wants peace, nations want development and society wants progress--thishas become the irresistible tide of the day. As long as the peoples ofall nations work together, adhering to the road of peace and development,continuing to unflaggingly promote the arms control and disarmament process,and sparing no effort to establish a new peaceful, stable, fair and reasonableinternational political and economic order on the basis of the Five Principlesof Peaceful Coexistence and other commonly recognized standards for internationalrelations, a long-lasting peace is possible, and the righteousness of peaceand development will ultimately and veritably triumph over the evils ofwar.
In the future China will unswervingly promote arms control and disarmamentas it has in the past, joining together with
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