andMr. Quinn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action taken by the Government to promote World Disarmament Week organised by the United Nations internationally which took place in December 1979 and if he will make a statement on the matter.

It was agreed at the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, which was held in 1978, that each year the week beginning 24 October, the date which commemorates the founding of the United Nations, should be devoted to fostering the objectives of disarmament. On the eve of Disarmament Week in 1979 the Permanent Representative of Ireland addressed the disarmament delegations in the First Committee of the General Assembly and on 24 October the Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland made a statement to the committee on the specific subject of Disarmament Week.

In addition, here at home the national steering committee for the International Year of the Child, in order to mark Disarmament Week, co-operated with the International Year of the Child secretariat in Europe in distributing to the media, documentation entitled "Disarmament and the child—an approach to peace education".

At the thirty third session of the General Assembly in 1978 the delegation of Mongolia tabled a resolution which was adopted by consensus requesting the Secretary General to prepare a model programme to assist states in developing their local programmes for Disarmament Week. That report was submitted to the General Assembly session which concluded last December and it is at present being studied in my Department.