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Mir. GROMYKO

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“The Soviet delegation has frankly stated the Soviet Government's position on the most acute and pressing problems of international life. We have done this in order to draw the attention of the United Nations to these problems in the hope that all States represented in this international forum will become yet more conscious of the responsibility they bear for preserving peace. The peoples' will for peace should serve all States as a guiding principle in all their actions. The Soviet Union, for its part, will as heretofore steadfastly pursue a policy of peace and friendship between peoples, a policy of peaceful coexistence between States irrespective of their social structure; for this is precisely the policy which corresponds to the most cherished interests and aspirations of all peoples.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The United Nations would undoubtedly be better equipped to meet the tasks before it if its, structure was altered to fit the situation now obtaining in the world, and if the three existing main groups of States —the socialist countries, the "countries belonging to Western blocs, and the neutralist countries— were represented on an equal footing in its governing organs. The Soviet Government’s proposals on this Subject are well known, and we shall press these just demands with all the insistence at our command. So long as the situation in the United Nations remains abnormal and fails to present a true reflection of the world scene, the Organization will be unable to deal successfully with the tasks assigned to it. 161.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Contrary to its Charter, and to the detriment of the cause of international co-operation, the lawful rights of the People's Republic, of China continue to be, usurped, This is happening for one single reason: because of the policy pursued towards China by the United States of America, which from year to year, from one session of the General Assembly to another , keeps, or more precisely maintains, the Chiang Kai-shekist mummy in the place in the United Nations that belongs to the people's China and to it alone. 159. The two German States and some other States remain outside the United Nations, and this also undermines its importance as a weapon in the struggle for peace. 160.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Sessions of the General Assembly are distinct milestones in international life; some sessions leave no perceptible mark on the peoples' consciousness, but others are marked by the adoption of decisions which bring nearer the realization of. the purposes and principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations. 157. If the United Nations is to become a genuine centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the achievement of international co-operation, as its Charter requires, it must accurately and fully reflect the contemporary world, scene. Unfortunately it is still a long way from doing so. 158.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“One who does not intend to fire the first shot in a nuclear war has no reason for refusing to give an appropriate international undertaking to that effect. Who can possibly suffer by such a decision? No one, so long as he has no aggressive intentions. 155. Permit me to express the hope that the General Assembly will give the proposal for the condemnation of propaganda favouring preventive nuclear war the careful consideration which benefits the seriousness of the question raised by the Soviet Government and its importance to the cause of safeguarding universal peace, and will take the appropriate decision. 156.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“We call on all States possessing nuclear weapons, as a first step on the way to a complete bail on their use, to give without delay a solemn undertaking not to be the first to use these weapons. 153. The Soviet Government has for many years persistently striven, within the United Nations and at other international conferences and negotiations, and, particularly at the Summit Conference-held at Geneva in 1955, to induce the powers concerned to give such an undertaking. It is ready to put its signature to an agreement on those lines this very day. 154. Is it not a warning in itself that the Government of the United States of America should be unwilling to undertake not to be the first to use nuclear weapons?”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Therefore the Soviet people and the socialist countries cannot be scared by threats of preventive war but the Soviet Government, following its unswerving and consistent policy of peace, is doing all that lies in its power to prevent a new world war. 151. Any call to strike the first nuclear blow runs counter to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and to the interests of maintaining peace, and is incompatible with the honour and conscience of mankind. The Soviet Government therefore considers it necessary to,-submit to the United Nations General Assembly, for consideration as a special agenda item at its seventeenth Session. The important and urgent question Of "Condemnation of propaganda favouring preventive nuclear war" and the draft of an appropriate General Assembly resolution (A/5232). 152.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The peoples of our country have more than once proved on the battlefield their readiness to stand up for themselves, for freedom and for the independence of their homeland. At the present time, our country is marking the 150th anniversary of the rout of the army, till then apparently invincible, with which Napoleon invaded Russia. On 9, May every year we celebrate the Day of Victory over Hitlerite Germany, whose hordes were also thought by many to be invincible until they were smashed and routed in battles with the Soviet army. Today our country, together with its friends the socialist countries, is stronger than ever before.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Is it enough to be on the alert, or must measures be taken to Anticipate an aggressor? That is the kind of question prompted by calls for preventive war. 149. We know that the United Nations has not always, in all cases, responded to acute international problems. But there are problems and problems. When it is a matter of averting a catastrophe, no one can remain indifferent. There is not, and cannot be, a position midway between condemning and not condemning preventive nuclear war, as there can be no position midway between life and death. 150. The Soviet Union attaches grave significance; to this problem not only —not even particularly— because the threats are aimed primarily in its direction. The Soviet Union has everything it needs with which to meet any aggressor fully aimed and to destroy it.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Surely when we, together with the United States and the other allied Powers, tried the chief war criminals, their barbarous policy, which led to the unleashing of the Second World War was with them in the dock. How can anyone forget all this today and declare with a clear conscience that he is ready to take the initiative in a nuclear conflict? 148. Perhaps not all of those present in this hail fully realize the danger of statements about the possibility of resorting to preventive nuclear war. But put yourselves in the position of the people and Government of a country at which such statements have been aimed, and you undoubtedly understand what feeling they can arouse and to what conclusions they must lead. How, in fact, are they to be interpreted: merely as a routine thread, or as something more?”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Yet what Japan did to the United States of America is what the partisans of the doctrine of preventive war are calling for now. 146. What is happening? The whole world now angrily condemns —and, it is evident, more than one generation will condemn in the future— the policy of fascist Germany and militarist Japan, which plunged mankind into the Second World War. They will condemn the perfidy and cunning of the then arbiters of those countries' destinies, who by lying references to a danger allegedly threatening Germany and Japan sought to justify aggression and their own bloody adventures. 147. What then? Is the doctrine of preventive war now to be used, as a weapon by the very people who Were themselves among its victims, and who —together with us, their allies in the Second World War— passed sentence on the nazi criminals?”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The assumption, manufactured from beginning to end, of a threat of some kind of Soviet attack on Europe is invented only as an outer cloak for the aggressive policy life of the NATO military bloc. 144. The idea of "the first blow", the idea of preventive war, is, far from new. In the lifetime of our generation it has already left its bloody trail in dozens of countries in Europe, and not in Europe alone —a trail trodden in by the jackboots of the fascist invaders, and ground in by the tracks of their tanks. 145. The Soviet people have not forgotten that Hitlerite Germany's bandit attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 was also dressed up in statements about a "Soviet threat", although the whole world knew that Hitler and the, members of his criminal gang were lying, we must assume, too, that the American people remember Pearl Harbor.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Quite apart from the fact that arguments about any attack by the Soviet Union —mass or not— are in themselves completely without foundation, it is perfectly Clear that the purpose of these arguments is to prepare, in anticipation, justifications and loopholes for aggression. When a State intends to provoke a military clash, it will find a way to do so it will find it no more difficult to represent such a clash, provoked by itself, as a mass attack by the other: that is to say, as precisely what has been declared in advance to be grounds for striking a nuclear blow. 143. The scheme is a somewhat primitive one and in fact differs little from, for example, those used to start the first and, especially, the Second World War.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Threats of preventive nuclear war are so monstrous that it is difficult even to believe they are being made in the mid-twentieth century, while mankind pays homage to the heroes, who are blazing the trail to the stars, and marvels at the invention of highly, complex electronic machinery and the many other outstanding achievements of world civilization. 141. In an attempt to ,present the "shoot first" position in a nuclear war, in a more palatable form, its originators assert that the United States will strike the first nuclear blow at the USSR, and thus unleash thermo-nuclear war, in the event of a mass attack by the Soviet Union on Europe with conventional Weapons. Statements of this kind have only one purpose: to mislead the credulous. 142.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“No: we protest against this doctrine itself, in order to eliminate the dangers it holds for all peoples and, not least, in order to clear the way for co-operation and mutual understanding between the USSR and the United States. 139. Think what is implied in statements about preventive nuclear, war. To "take the initiative” in such a. war means being the first to rain down atomic and hydrogen bombs on a peaceful country. Any objectively- minded; person, will say that such, an "initiative" is nothing else but aggression. When statements of this kind are spread abroad, not a single person in, either ,the eastern or the western hemisphere can be free from the oppressive sense that the world can be plunged into a military catastrophe at any moment. 140.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Soviet Government would prefer to speak from this rostrum, not of the things which estrange the USSR and the United States and which drive them poles apart, but of that friendship trust and agreement between them which, we are convinced, would be greeted with deep satisfaction by all those who care about peace. The Soviet Government has stated on more than one occasion that it is in favour, of such friendship, and that good relations between the two Powers —the USSR and the United States— would lead to a radical change for the better in the international, situation as a whole. 138. If we censure statements about the possibility of resorting to preventive, nuclear war, we do not do so in; order to. criticize particular individuals or statesmen.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“As you know, the Soviet Government has raised the question of the need to withdraw foreign troops from South Korea and has proposed to the General Assembly that it should consider this question at the present session. A positive solution of this problem would do much to restore the situation to normal in the Far East. 135. Permit me to state the Soviet Government's views on yet another of the most acute factors in the contemporary international situation. 136. I refer to the calls to unleash a preventive nuclear war, to strike the first nuclear blow, which leading statesmen of certain NATO Powers have begun to utter. It is not long since a statement by the President of the United States flashed round the world to the effect that, in certain circumstances, the United States might take the initiative in a nuclear conflict. 137.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“island of Taiwan, Chinese territory since time immemorial, has still not been reunited with China, is still occupied by the United States of America, and has been turned into a military springboard for the United States against the peopled China and other socialists States. The longer the United States, pursues this aggressive policy towards China, the longer United States occupation of the island of Taiwan continues, the greater will grow the danger to peace in the Far East and throughout the world. The legitimate interests of the people's China and the interests of the maintenance of peace demand that the foreign occupation of Taiwan be brought to an end. 134. The conversion of South Korea into a United States military base and the presence of foreign troops there merely add fuel to the inflammable situation in the Far Eastern region.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Its sovereignty will be securely guarded and the frontiers of the German Democratic Republic will remain under staunch protection. 132. Let no one read into our words, a lack of desire to find an agreed solution to the German problem. The Soviet Government and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, the. Head of that Government, personally have stated more than once that we still prefer such a solution to this whole problem. We shall be compelled to take the action of which spoke only if no agreed solution can be found. 133. It is impossible to ignore the situation, fraught with great danger, which still prevails in the Far East; The.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Soviet Union, the German Democratic, Republic and the other States which are prepared to sign a German peace treaty will not allow the legitimate rights of the German Democratic Republic to be violated and will not let West Berlin remain a centre of provocation against the socialist States and a NATO base. They will not agree that the occupation regime and the forces of occupation should stay in West Berlin in perpetuity. 131. The conclusion of a German peace treaty will remove the last vestiges of occupation from the territory of the German Democratic Republic, and the parties to the treaty will regard West Berlin as a free Remilitarized city. After such a treaty is signed, control over communication with west Berlin will vest in the German Democratic Republic and no-one else.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“If the Western Powers leave us no choice, the Soviet Union, together with such other States as wish to do so, will sign a peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic, with all the consequences that entails In taking that step the Soviet Union will, strictly speaking, only be doing what the United States of America and the other Western Powers did ten years ago in signing, without the USSR, a peace treaty with Japan. 130. Sometimes the NATO countries try resorting to open or disguised threats, to the point of declaring that in response to the Conclusion of a peace treaty the Western Powers would even use force. But those who make such statements may be asked this question: are they weighing their words with sufficient care?”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Another no less cogent example was the attainment of agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands on the reunion of West Irian with Indonesia. In that connexion, we offer our warm congratulations to the Indonesian people and Government. As Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, the Head of the Soviet Government has pointed out, both these examples show that complex international problems can and must be solved, not by threats, but by negotiation, by peaceful settlement. This, the only correct method, is consistently advocated by the Soviet Union. 129. But the Western Powers would be making a serious miscalculation if they were to take the Soviet Union's desire to achieve settlement in agreement with them for willingness to accept endless delays in the conclusion of a German peace treaty.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“What is wrong with a proposal that the United Nations should show itself and demonstrate its will to peace in such an important area, as the center of Europe? When United Nations guarantees are rejected, and the presence of NATO troops is categorically insisted upon, it become even clearer that considerations of ensuring the independence of West Berlin and the freedom of its population do not really count with the Western Powers. 128. Recent experience has shown that, when there is a desire to solve complex international problems, even very acute ones, on a basis of co-operation and consideration for each other's interests, such cooperation gets results. An example of this was the successful settlement of the Laotian question.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The German Democratic Republic is prepared to guarantee to West Berlin the free movement of goods and passengers through its territory in accordance with the generally accepted rules of international law. The Soviet Government proposes that, West Berlin, as a free city, should be given firm international guarantees to ensure its independence and security. 127. Although we are convinced that there is no need whatsoever for any foreign troops to remain in West Berlin any longer in order to guarantee its independence, the Soviet Government has given its consent to the temporary stationing of token military units in that city. Our proposal on the subject Are known and there is no need to repeat them. One variant of our Proposal is that token contingents of United Nations troops should stationed in West Berlin.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“But if the Western Powers will not agree to the joint signature of a German peace treaty or two peace treaties, the Soviet Government will also entertain, the following possibility: the Soviet Union and such other countries as wish to do so will sign a peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic, the idea being that at the same time the parties shall reach agreement among themselves on certain problems, well known to the Governments concerned, which call for solution in a German peace settlement. The Soviet Government has referred to these on a number of occasions. 126. The Soviet Union contends that the population of West Berlin should be free to choose their way of life, and that West Berlin should be able to maintain without let or hindrance, political and other non-military ties with any country on any continent.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“As long as the occupation regime, is maintained in West Berlin, as long as the situation in that city is not restored to normal, there is and can be no guarantee that in the confined space of West Berlin, where the troops of the two most powerful groupings stand only a few metres apart someone may not commit, at any moment, an act of provocation which will shake our planet to its foundations. 125. The USSR Government's position is that a German peace settlement can be reached without prejudice to the interests or prestige of any country or group of countries. Of course, the best solution of all would be for the Western Powers to sign with us and with other countries, one or two separate peace treaties-with the two German States.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Western Power are trying to justify the presence of their troops, or, rather NATO troops, in West Berlin on the basis of old outdated agreements going back to the wartime period. But, the question of issue today is that of a German peace treaty, of restoring the situation in West Berlin to normal on the basis of such a treaty, and thus putting an end to the occupation of West Berlin and its use as a base of the aforementioned military bloc. 124. It is inadmissible that West Berlin should become a military base of the NATO bloc for use against the socialist countries.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The troops of the aggressive North Atlantic bloc are stationed there, and the base serves the purposes of that bloc. If any further confirmation were needed, it would be enough to take the statement made by Mr. Stikker, Secretary General of NATO, at a press conference held at Oslo on 10 September, in which in substance, he admits, that the Western Powers have turned West Berlin into a NATO base. Stikker's statement concerning the determination of that military bloc to defend the rights of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France in West Berlin and to, defend freedom of access to West Berlin, and other arguments of the kind, afford yet further evidence that a NATO base has been established in West Berlin under cover of the occupation regime.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“West Germany's policymakers must come to understand that such relations correspond to the vital interests of the Federal Republic's population itself. 121. With every passing month, tension is mounting in West Berlin, which has been turned into a NATO military base directed against the USSR, the German Democratic Republic and the other socialist countries. Few days pass without attempts to use West Berlin for provocations against the German Democratic Republic, and that fact alone represents a threat to peace. 122, Certain Western statesmen assert that West Berlin is not a NATO base at all. The troops belong to NATO, but no one knows to whom the base belongs. Is this not Pharisaism? 123, No, West Berlin is a military base belonging to NATO and to no-one else.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“If an impartial court were requested to give its view on the policy of their present Government, of the Federal Republic of Germany, the: mere statements of Bonn Ministers would suffice to produce the finding that that Government is in fact guilty of preparing revenge. 120.. In stating all this, the Soviet Government is itself prompted not by any feeling of revenge, which is alien to the Soviet people and certainly not by any fear of West Germany, but rather by a desire to prevent a recurrence of tragic events. The Soviet Union is ready to extend-the hand of friendship to the Federal Republic of Germany as well. However, if genuine good-neighbour relations are to be established, there must be reciprocal action on the part of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Nothing is changed by the fact that the statesmen of certain countries which are neighbours of West Germany today close their eyes to the dangers of West German revenge-seeking and are even participating, side by side With it, in militaristic and revenge-seeking manifestations Along the batiks of the Rhine; It would be better, however, for those statesmen to open their eyes, not after the metal and fire of war have crashed down on the heads of their peoples, but while it is still possible for all this to be averted. 119. The leaders of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany go so far as to declare that the Second World War is not over, that it is continuing. This is what post-war European frontiers unconsolidated by a peace treaty signify! This is what the absence of a German peace treaty leads to!”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“On the eve of its downfall, Nazi Germany was feverishly trying to master the secret of the atomic bomb, counting on its help to change the course of the Second World War. What Hitler was not able to achieve his successors in West Germany now wish to accomplish. They are making approaches from various directions to nuclear arsenals, trying to acquire these weapons, if not directly, then Under the cover of NATO. In this connexion the Federal Republic of Germany states that it is only seeking to attain "equality of armaments" with other Powers —nothing more. Nazi Germany also started by demanding equality in armaments. We all remember how that ended. The Government of the federal Republic of Germany obviously does not want to leave the trail blazed by Hitler. 118.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“There is a striking similarity in substance between the policy of Germany today and that which it was pursuing on the eve of the Second World War. 116. Before he shattered the Treaty of Versailles which had imposed certain military restrictions on Germany, Hitler prepared, within the framework of a 100,000-man-strong Reichswehr, the cadres of his future armies of millions. Today, hundreds of thousands of recruits are being moved through the barracks of the Bundeswehr by means of the same production line technique. Their military training is based on the experience gained from Hitler's predatory campaigns. There are at present in the Federal Republic of Germany more soldiers who have donned uniform than in the vast majority of the States represented in the United Nations, which took part in the war against German fascism. 117.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The writing of finis to the Second World War by means of the conclusion of a German peace treaty is not merely what is required by international standards and practice, but, as post-war experience has shown, is essential to the establishment of lasting peace in Europe.- One has only, to look objectively at the present position in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin in order to be convinced of this fact. 115. If we compare the situation existing in the Federal Republic of Germany today with that in the Germany of the thirties, we can see that there is hardly any significant difference. It is true that the flags no longer bear the spidery swastika emblem. The former portraits have been replaced by others. But this is merely an outward change.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Whenever the most urgent tasks of consolidating peace are at issue, our thoughts inevitably turn to the problem of concluding a German peace treaty and normalizing, on that basis, the situation in West Berlin. This problem, in its acuteness, can even rival the problem of disarmament. The United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and certain other NATO countries are in effect turning the question of a German peace treaty into a test of strength between East and West. This leads to acute and very dangerous tension in relations between States and particularly between the great Powers. 114. The seventeen years which have elapsed since the defeat of Hitler's Germany have not planed down the sharp edges of the German problem; on the contrary, they have made them even sharper.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Under cover of the United Nations flag, colonial Powers are even now, in collusion with each other, giving effect to a new plan to split that country and turn its richest areas into appendages of the imperialist monopolies. The decisions adopted by the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Congolese question are thus being unceremoniously set aside. The Soviet Government considers that the United Nations would not be performing its clear duty if it left the Congolese people at the mercy of the colonial Powers. 112. By their struggle, the peoples have broken many links in the chain of colonial domination, but they have not yet broken the entire chain. It is the vital duty of the United Nations to tear off and destroy the colonial shackles completely. 113.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“110. Those who bear the responsibility for the present situation in the Congo are attempting to make the Soviet Union and other States pay for the operations of the colonial Powers aimed at subverting the independence of the Congo and dismembering that country. Can it be that they want us to pay for the murder of Patrice Lumumba and hundreds of other patriots, for the tripartite aggression against Egypt and other similar crimes let no one entertain the belief that the Soviet Union will give a single kopeck or a single cent to help the colonialists sanctify their criminal deeds. 111. The Congolese tragedy is not yet over.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“That marked a great step forward inspired by the lofty ideas expressed in the Declaration, many peoples have attained independence. The Algerian people's heroic struggle for liberation has culminated in resounding victory. 109. Many changes have taken place in the world in the two years which have elapsed since the adoption of that historic Declaration. Only the colonizers have not changed their nature: by every means in their power they have obstructed, and continue to obstruct, the people’s liberation. To cherish the hope that they will amicably leave the oppressed peoples alone would involve protracting the Declaration's implementation indefinitely. Moreover, as the example of the Congo shows, the future of young and as yet unconsolidated States would be jeopardized, since them wealth whets the appetite of the predatory monopolies?”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“In using every means, including the development of mutually advantageous international trade relations, to help strengthen the economic self-dependence of the young independent States of Asia, Africa and Latin America, we must not forget that there are other countries and peoples which are still subject to the colonial yoke. I do not think I need list all the crimes perpetrated by the colonialists. Reports regarding these crimes are published and are known to Members of the General Assembly. 108. Everyone remembers the occasion when acting on the appeal made by the Head of the Soviet Government; Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples [resolution 1514. (XV)].”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It has long been a pressing need to call an international conference on trade problems, which, would consider the question of setting up an international trade organization embracing all areas and countries of the world, without any sort of discrimination. 106. The Soviet Government is submitting to the General Assembly of the United Nations for its consideration, as a separate agenda item, a proposal for the holding in 1963 of an international conference on trade problems [A/5219]. It is convinced, that such a conference and the establishment of an international trade organization, would not only create a sound basis for the development of economic intercourse between States, but would also help to bring about an atmosphere of confidence in their relations and\a lessening of international tension. 107.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It may also be counted upon to bind the economies of the under-developed States even closer to the economies of the imperialist Powers, to leave the new-born States with the one-sided economic structure inherited from, colonialism, and to prevent these States from attaining to genuine independence. 104. It cannot be denied that the United Nations has a great debt to discharge towards the peoples, since the Organization itself is to a high degree called upon to concern itself with the improvement of international trade, which helps towards a more rational use of the labour of man and the natural wealth of the soil, and brings States closer together. 105.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“In the present international situation, the task of normalizing international trade has assumed very great —I would even say, tremendous— importance. In this field there are abnormal circumstances which have been particularly aggravated by the establishment of the "Common Market". 102. The United Nations can see how entire groups of industrially developed countries, by means of discriminatory restrictions on trade, are locking the doors of their markets and adapting their external economic relations to the interests of the NATO military bloc. 103. Whatever the publicity attire in which the Organizers of the “Common-Market” may dress up their policy, they will convince no one that, this closed economic group is not primarily directed towards intensifying the arms race and strengthening the West German revenge-seeking forces.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“There has long been a pressing need to implement the well- known proposal of the Polish People's Republic for the establishment of an atom-free zone in Central Europe [697th meeting]. The idea contained in this proposal gave rise to plans, for the creation of "denuclearized” zones in a number of other areas of the world. By supporting these plans, the General Assembly would render a valuable service to the cause of peace. 100. Both an agreement by Governments to refrain from the use of nuclear weapons, and the conclusion of a non-aggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact Organization, would constitute definite protection against the threat of nuclear war. These and other similar measures would at the same time remove not a few of the obstacles to general and complete disarmament. 101.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“A few days ago the Soviet Government proposed the signature of an Agreement banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space and specifically committing countries to continue negotiations on the suspension of underground tests. Naturally, while, such negotiations are in progress and until such time as an agreement on the suspension of underground nuclear weapon tests is reached, such tests should not be conducted. We consider that this proposal provides a good basis for an agreement. The key to the solution of the problem lies in the hands of the Western Powers. 99. The General Assembly should also give serious consideration to the proposals on individual measures conducive to a lessening of international tension.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The United States and the United Kingdom oppose any proposals, whether advanced by the Soviet Union or by the neutralist States, for a ban on nuclear weapon tests, if such proposals are based-on the possibility of using national detection system for the purpose of control. In rejecting the proposals of, the Soviet Union and the neutralist countries, the Western Powers continue to follow the old line; either the suspension of tests plus the establishment of ja large-scale espionage system under the flag of control, or the legalization of underground nuclear explosions. It is to be hoped that they have not yet said their last word. 98.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Western Powers created the dispute over control, in order to kill any possibility of an international agreement on the suspension of nuclear tests. Science and experience confirm that States now possess all the necessary means for controlling, with adequate accuracy, the observance of an agreement on the suspension of tests. Even the specialists of the United States Department of Defense are now compelled to acknowledge this fact. Nevertheless, month after month and year after year, the United States and the United Kingdom have been preventing the conclusion of such an agreement and have been seeking the Soviet Union's approval for the establishment on its territory of a network of international control posts which, while unnecessary for verification of the fulfilment of an agreement are strongly desired by NATO’s military staffs. 97.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The myth about a moratorium was dragged out only when the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and other NATO States found themselves in need of an excuse for the new series of nuclear weapon tests unleashed by them. 95. Everyone knows quite well that it was not the Soviet Union which started nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race. All the nuclear test explosions set off by the Soviet Union have simply been an answer to the operations of the United States and its NATO-allies, the United Kingdom and France. The United States was the first to embark on nuclear tests, so it is the United States, and its allies which should be the first to suspend tests. The Soviet Union has every right to be the last to carry out nuclear weapon tests. 96.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“If this matter had depended on the Soviet Union alone, experiments, with nuclear weapons would long ago have ceased. 93. In order to justify their position, which obstructs the reaching of an agreement on the suspension of all types of nuclear weapon testing, the representatives of the Western Powers often resort to juggling with facts, seeking to reproach the Soviet Union with having allegedly broken some moratorium on nuclear explosions. To those who make such assertions, we must reply that it is impossible to break something which never existed. 94. Although the Soviet Union has more than once urged the Western Powers to negotiate a moratorium, no inter-State agreement involving commitment to a moratorium on nuclear explosions and to its observance has ever been reached.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The timely preparation of such a programme would not only make it possible to prepare on a world scale, for the painless transfer of States' economies to peaceful lines immediately after the reaching of agreement on disarmament; it would also help the peoples to appreciate more clearly the necessity and significance of disarmament, and would thus attract, under the banner of peaceful coexistence and disarmament, millions and millions of new and active supporters of this great cause. 91. The present session of the General Assembly is to have its say on the question of the suspension of nuclear tests. 92. The attitude of the Soviet Union is well known it is that all nuclear tests—whether in the atmosphere, in the outer space, underground, or under water should be banned immediately and unreservedly.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“With $500,000 million it would be possible to establish thirty to forty large new industrial areas in the world, similar to the Ruhr or to the industrial complex which has been set up in Soviet Siberia around the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. 90. The Soviet Government is submitting to the General Assembly a draft "Declaration concerning the conversion to peaceful needs of the resources released by disarmament" [A/5233]. The Soviet Government considers that the United Nations should at once. Without waiting for the conclusion of the negotiations on general and complete disarmament, proceed to the preparation of an international programme for the peaceful use of the means and resources at present employed for military purposes.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)