On October 17, 1963, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a proposal from the 17 countries of the United States and the Soviet Union participating in the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, which called for ¡°all countries not to put nuclear weapons or any other type of weapons of mass destruction into orbit around the Earth.¡± The proposal was submitted to the General Assembly on October 16, after the Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly passed and reviewed. The Soviet Representative Federin and the American Representative Stevenson repeatedly spoke at the Political Committee and the General Assembly, emphasizing the proposal as ¡°significant¡± and praising the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear tests between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.