我们十分清楚国际安全局势，但我们认为，我们必须坚持采取具体措施来实现裁军，除了裁军本身是一个理想目标之外，这对于确保裁军制度的公信力也是必需的。我们欢迎沿着这些路线采取的举措，例如“铺路石”办法——西班牙语为“peldaños”——我们已经采纳这一办法，并认为它为通过具体和切实步骤推进裁军提供了一个建设性机会。
We are well aware of the international security situation, but we believe that we must persevere with concrete measures to achieve disarmament, which, in addition to being a desirable objective of itself, is imperative to ensuring the credibility of the system. We welcome initiatives along those lines, such as the Stepping Stones approach — peldaños in Spanish — which we have adopted and believe provides a constructive opportunity to advance disarmament through concrete and tangible steps.